Chris Phinney's Malice Fanzine - Part 2: issues 6-9

4/25/2019

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

Electronic Cottage
Editor
Hal McGee

I have been making my own homemade experimental music since 1981.

I was an active participant in the 1980s Cassette Culture scene, and I operated the Cause And Effect Cassette Distribution Service and label, and recorded solo as Dog As Master, and in a duo as Viscera.

I published six issues of the original Electronic Cottage print magazine, 1989-91.

In the last 44 years I have recorded, produced and released more than 300 solo audio works, collaborations and compilations.

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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.

Yes tHal did a great jobb. Glad you enjoy!

Crank link

4/27/2019 00:25:59

Juicy stuff! Can’t wait to snuggle up with the laptop and peruse some more. Thanks for sharing this!

Atomizador link

4/27/2019 06:38:54

Wow! Thanks a lot, this is so great!!!

4/27/2019 22:09:05

Hope you enjoy~

4/27/2019 22:04:15

Crank.

Hope you enjoy ~

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.
# 7 had a Necros interview, Killing Children interview, & Circle Jerks live review. If you don't know it Keith Morris Circle Jerks lead singer was the original singer for Black Flag & if my memory is correct Scott Colburn a collaborator with Hal as Jabon was in Killing Children,.
# 8 UK Subs live, Jody Fosters Army live, Corrosion of Conformity interview, Negative Approach live.
# 9 the last issue Black Flag live, Sam Hain live, & 45 Grave live, of which ex Germs member Don Bolles played drums, after Darby Crash of Germs died. So theirs a brief summary of the hardcore spectrum.

Hal McGee

4/28/2019 10:40:04

Yo Chris, yes, that is correct that Scott Colburn (aka Jabon) was in Killing Children!

Ditlev Buster link

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

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!

4/29/2019 22:31:55

Tom,

Xeroxed, offset print, cassette culture, yes we have come a long way, thanks for contributing to the zine again from way back then & the trades we used to do, been listening to your current stuff & it's highly enjoyable by the way, in case I forgot to comment: magnifico as always.

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.

4/29/2019 22:36:58

Phil,

Glad you are enjoying again. Double check your collection, yes buying what one thought was a lp only to find out it was a ep was indeed a chapper. Enjoy my friend!

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.

4/29/2019 22:42:26

Leslie,

Ahh glad you like, thanks to Hal again, this all came about just with a interview about some cassettes, so glad Bliss Blast review, made you go back in time! :)

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.

4/29/2019 22:45:58

Bret,

Yes you & Dick M. at same time If my memory is correct. Travel back in time, glad you found some good things in these to enjoy!

Wolfgang Dorninger link

5/10/2019 10:41:00

Two great articles! I never got a Malice fanzine in my hand what is a great miss.
Thanks a lot presenting for presenting this jewel!

5/10/2019 21:50:30

Wolfgang,

So glad you enjoy the online version. A shame we never touched base in print!