Following a relentless touring schedule supporting 2012’s critically acclaimed ’Five’album the band took a short hiatus, however their insatiable drive to create seriously heavy music quickly returned, putting them back on the writing wagon once again. The band are self-producing the EP with it being mixed and mastered by Justin Hill. The currently untitled record will feature four new tracks as well as a remix of the blistering single ‘V’.

Dale Butler, vocalist, states: “After taking some time out from the band to do our own things and focus on our own lives we came back together not feeling as we had given all we have to give to Malefice… We spent a long booze-fuelled evening talking about what we want to do and what came out of that discussion is that we want to write music we like, we don’t want to write music to fit in or to sound like whatever is ‘cool’ this year. We are going to back to what makes us Malefice and were gonna write some fucking heavy music to headbang to. And that’s that.”

The band are also very pleased to welcome new drummer James Pearly Cook into the Malefice family. He has been a good friend of the band for many years from his time playing with numerous bands including Anterior and Born Of Ruin. James is playing an active role in making the new EP and is very excited to hit the road later in 2014

And finally, ATTENTION ALL PRODUCERS! Malefice are giving you the chance to appear on their EP. The band have made the stems for the track ‘V’ available to download and they invite you to enter a competition to get your remix of the track on the new record. There are no guidelines, no genre or style limitations; the aim is to reinterpret the song in the most exciting and unique way possible.

Check out the video to the original track ‘V’ here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej9t7TG0-5c

Download the stems here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r8ftlgxa0o9mwm5/Malefice_V_Stems.zip

All remixes are to be uploaded to soundcloud and added to the Malefice ‘V’ remix group (below) and posted on social media tagging the band.

Group:
https://soundcloud.com/groups/malefice-v-remix-competition

The band’s favourite remixes will then be posted on the Malefice facebook page tagging the producer, to get feedback from fans and to help them to chose the winner.

EP title, release date and tour news will be released in due course.

For more information, contact James Monteith at james@holdtightpr.com.