Malefactor was born in December 91 by the hands of Lord Vlad (Vocalist) and Alexandre Deminco (Drums). They decided to use this name because Malefactor mixes both power and obscurity in a strong name. Just a few months passed until the guitar player Danilo Coimbra joined them.
Their first gig took place in the end of 1992 on the Halloween Festival, and the sucess on the stage brought them a lot of invitations for other gigs.
1993: Malefactor released the 1st demo-tape called “Sickness” and did some shows, playing with local bands such as Mystifier and Headhunter DC. Alexandre Deminco left the band at this time.
Between 1994 and 1995 the band recorded some tracks, like the never released (yet!) Cruciform Slaughter, and kept in touch with the austrian sound engineer Ephendy Steven (Kreator, Sodom, Assassin and others) to record the Into The Black Order demo with Vicente Azevedo (of Carnified) on the drums. At that time Roberto Souza joined the group as the bass player. This tape was distributed by the North American label The Wild Rags Records, but it wasn’t a good deal.
Sacramental Embrace, one of the tracks, was included on the Brazilian compilation Winds of a New Millenium 2, the bible of the true underground metal in Brazil.
1996: Alexandre returns to the drums and Jafet Amoedo joins the group, bringing some new influences. Elaine Cristina, Malefactors keyboard player, moves to Norway and leaves the band.
1997: Luciano Veiga of Veuliah joins the group and a new single is made called Under The Law of the Sword. This song was included in another brazilian metal compilation called Dois Da Bahia.
During 1998 and 1999, the debut album “Celebrate Thy War” was recorded and released on Megahard Records (Brazil) with the presence of a second keyboard player called Ovdio Amoedo, Jafet’s brother. 2500 metalheads came to see the first gig of the Celebrate Thy War Tour. A lot of Brazilian cities saw the band live for the first time between 1999/2000.
2001: Malefactor records their second full length album “The Darkest Throne”. The Darkest Tour visits 12 Brazilian states and 3 countries in Europe (Portugal, Germany and Belgium) with Marcelo Antunes of Martyrdom as a session member, because Roberto Souza couldn’t travel at that time. During the tour, Malefactor played side by side with bands like Destruction, Kreator and Monstrosity, showing the popularity of their name in Brazil.
2003: Malefactor records the third album: “Barbarian”. The album was produced by Jeronimo Cravo, ex-sound engineer of the famous Whisky a Go Go Club on USA. For this album they did their first Malefactors' video clip for the "Followers of the Fallen" song.
2006: Malefactor has a new album: “Centurian”. The first gig of the Centurian tour was realized on Wacken Open Air in 2006, for a complete lunatic evil audience. Cheers !!! The second gig was on Brasil Metal Union 2006 (Brazilian metal festival where the band played for the 4th time, together with a lot of underground bands (Torture Squad, Angra, Krisiun and others), in front of more than 4000 metalheads.
By now, MUTILATION PRODUCTIONS (Acheron, Headhunter Dc, Desaster, Monstrosity, Incantation .) is re-releasing the last 2 albums on a double special edition, with a totally new artwork and an extra song, with the MALEFACTOR version for "A Touch of Evil", the classic metal stuff of Judas Priest. So, now is time to Bang the heads of the occult metallers. MALEFACTOR IS COMING SOON TO KILL YOU!
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