 Malice was a fanzine published by Chris Phinney from December 1982 to January 1985 and was the root from which the Harsh Reality Music cassette label grew. I have scanned and uploaded all nine issues of Malice to the HalTapes website. In Part 2 of my intro to Malice Fanzine you can preview issues 6 through 9. Below each zine cover I have pasted clippings of my personal favorite parts. Click on the zine covers below to view the complete zine issues. I urge you to check out the full zine issues themselves because there are lots of historic news and info items. Visit the Harsh Reality Music Home Page Visit the Malice Fanzine Home Page Malice Fanzine #6 late 1983   Malice #6 — Nightcrawlers and other cassette reviews  Malice #6 — full page on Savage Republic house label, Independent Project Records  Malice #6 — reviews of Glenn Branca, Karl Blake, Maurizio Bianchi, Negativland, Neuengamme compilation  Malice #6 — article about The Haters  Malice #6 — Tuxedomoon  Malice #6 — Shockabilly live review  Malice #6 — full-page feature on Maurizio Bianchi  Malice #6 — Recloose Org, Rising From The Red Sand, and Attrition reviews Malice Fanzine #7 early 1984   Malice #7 — Cultural Amnesia : The Uncle Of The Boot cassette, OSLWMMGIB? compilation, Hunting Lodge, Factrix / Cazazza  Malice #7 — Nocturnal Emissions: Drowning In A Sea Of Bliss LP review  Malice #7 — a page of cassette reviews — Laxative Souls, Tom Furgas, F/i, Area Condizionata cassettezine, Third Mind  Malice #7 — review of Anthems 2 compilation cassette on Vittore Baroni's label  Malice #7 — review of Belgian underground music compilation, Wij Zijn Belgie  Malice #7 — a full page of cassette reviews! — including Bene Gesserit, Human Flesh, New Federalism compilation, Etat Brut, Stahlbau Malice Fanzine #8 Summer 1984   Malice #8 — announcement abut new label, Harsh Reality Music!  malice #8 — video reviews of SPK, Nocturnal Emissions, TG and Birthday Party  Malice #8 — advertisement for the first four Harsh Reality Music cassette label releases  review of Swinging Axe label compilation  review of a cassette by Tom Furgas's band The Fringe  Psyko-Genetika II cassette by Konstruktivits, issued on the Harsh Reality Music label  Malice #8 — John Oswald Interview by Tom Furgas  review of the Fi: Zombie cassette  review of the Noisy But Chic compilation cassette  Malice #8 — artwork on page 14 by John Eberly  review of the Armaghedon LP by Maurizio Bianchi  reviews of LPs by Bourbonese Qualk and Pacfic 231  cassette review — Laxative Souls: Disinfektionsraum  Music For The Hashishins In Memoriam Of Hasan Sabbah LP by Vagina Dentata Organ  inside back cover of Malice #8 — full page ad for Vittore Baroni's TRAX  back cover of Malice #8 — artwork by John Eberly Malice Fanzine #9 January 1985   Malice #9 — full-page article on horror rock industrial band Skoptzies, fronted by Phinney  review of Data-Bank-A: The Citadel LP  review of a 7-inch record by Amor Fati  review of Drastic Perversions compilation LP  review of Nurse With Wound's Brained By Falling Masonry record  reviews of LP records by Current 93 and Attrition  Nurse With Wound review  Malice #9 — article on Pere Ubu  reviews of Bloody But Chic and Aural Fixation cassettes  Insane Music For Insane People Vol. 5 and Test Department: Live At The Ritz  review of Mystery Hearsay cassette  Malice #9 — ad for Data-Bank-A's The Citadel LP  Data-Bank-A and Attrition record reviews  reviews of records by Konstruktivits and Nocturnal Emissions  reviews of Testtube Fanzine, Les Trois Phallus, Coil, and Foetus
20 Comments
Rafael González
4/26/2019 16:39:06
Thank you very much, Mr. Editor. This is fantástico!
Chris Phinney
4/27/2019 22:01:45
Rafael.
Chris Phinney
4/27/2019 22:09:05
Hope you enjoy~
Chris Phinney
4/27/2019 22:04:15
Crank.
Chris Phinney
4/28/2019 10:36:30
So Hal touched on a lot of things I would by experimental artists & home tapers, I will touch base on some of the heavy hardcore things you may like if into that. #6 had great stuff on No Trend, Panther Burns, Interviews with Battalion of Saints, Suicidal Tendencies.
Hal McGee
4/28/2019 10:40:04
Yo Chris, yes, that is correct that Scott Colburn (aka Jabon) was in Killing Children! 4/29/2019 14:21:57
Was this the fanzine that of Glen Danzig by not wanting to negative reviews? You told me about that a long time ago, it’s still pretty funny. I keep imagining Glen stomping his tiny feey like Ceasar in the Asterix comics
Chris Phinney
4/29/2019 21:22:44
Yes Ditlev Danzig wanted negative reviews, said we should have em his only complaint, lol, why were we or I going to spend money on negative reviews, made more sense to us or me to review things you liked.
Tom Furgas
4/29/2019 04:17:32
Great to see these now available again. As far as we've come since the days of xeroxed fanzines I would never want us to forget our origins, and how the zines and cassette culture lead us into the current era of internet, instant audio transfers, and all the other advantages. Great to see this again; great job, Hal!
Chris Phinney
4/29/2019 22:31:55
Tom,
Phillip Klampe
4/29/2019 11:01:31
Nice work again! Reading these reviews reminds me that I need to rediscover some of these releases. It's difficult to remember what is actually in my collection. I have caught myself buying stuff that I already have a couple of times. For some reason I was never able to get hold of any Human Flesh albums. Seems they sold out quick. Also, as I became a NWW fan, it became difficult to grab their stuff at times. Didn't like paying high prices to find out what I thought was an album was only an EP. Glad to see these issues become available.
Chris Phinney
4/29/2019 22:36:58
Phil,
Leslie Singer
4/29/2019 12:19:23
Hal, thank you for another great selection from Malice and thanks again to Chris for doing the work and putting it out there back in the day. This selection contains a review of Bliss Blast in Malice #6. When working on the GOF project, I had forgotten to mention him. He made some really heavy noise with some heavy topics back in the early '80's in SF. I didn't get the chance to meet him until late '80's right before he and his wife moved to LA. A really nice, sweet guy.
Chris Phinney
4/29/2019 22:42:26
Leslie,
Bret Hart
4/29/2019 12:46:52
LOVE LOVE LOVE the graphix, and while I never got a copy of MALICE when they came out (I lived in Korea at the time), I sure would have enjoyed it then. The cover art, in particular, is fantastic. The many reviews were like a time machine back into the DIY years.
Chris Phinney
4/29/2019 22:45:58
Bret, 5/10/2019 10:41:00
Two great articles! I never got a Malice fanzine in my hand what is a great miss.
Chris Phinney
5/10/2019 21:50:30
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