Fragments cass. 1993
I’ve heard Malignus Youth was a big influence on Head Space and I’ve also heard that Head Space was the big influence on Malignus Youth. They were definitely big influences on each other, but I’ve always thought of Head Space as the elder and more mature of the two groups because their sound didn’t always rely on breakneck speeds and they sometimes went into long drawn out jams reminiscent of the Doors or Santana and other hippie music. Maybe because they were from the hippie town of Bisbee and Malignus was from the military town of Sierra Vista. The melodic vocal arrangements both these bands used were way more complex than most bands that got called punk. With Head Space’s mellower songs it sometimes comes off like 60s folk or psych, which is territory Malignus never ventured near. But there are also moments of blast beat fast-core with melodic rapid fire vocals. It’s complex in a way that most people probably won’t like and sometimes a little heart-on-sleeve hokey like Cap’n Jazz, but I like most of it and I think it’s essential listening to anybody that was interested in Malignus Youth and later Pathos.
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