Artist description Buckets of blood, piles of bones, screaming guitars, hellfire and brimstone

Music Style Theatrical, progressive, horror, power goth/metal

Musical Influences Alice Cooper, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Dream Theater, Metallica

Similar Artists Maiden, Priest, Metallica

Artist History Malignari was not formed, so much as spawned. Various components of other, even larger, elements impacted in such a way that the colloidal mass WE call 'Malignari' became. Working in a mutually parasitic symbiosis, 'Malignari' endeavors to rip the ears from the populace, hang those ears on strings, and sell them to passersby at a severly discounted rate.

Group Members Bruno F. Cosmoline: six-stringed maelstrom. Sticks McPherson: hammers of doom. Osiris Black: wailing of the damned. Darkos: the basis of insanity

Instruments Guitar, guitar synth, drums, bass

Albums WE Live...You Die

Press Reviews From Maris the Great (http://www.maristhegreat.com): Few local bands have been as creatively prolific than this gaggle of ghouls. The MALIGNARI website alone is more entertaining than most bands are as an entire entity. Crashing onto the scene about a year shy of the end of the last millenium, MALIGNARI was a force brought to life…er…death, primarily by long-time friends, Dana Kukkonen and Bill Simon. Unhappy with their previous band, they decided to start over. Pushing their music more squarely into pure Metal and adopting a theatrical concept the likes of which anyone who loves Gwar, Kiss or Alice Cooper would appreciate, an irresistible creative force was set into motion. Being fronted by the best friend local Heavy Metal has, the one and only Jimzilla, solidified the vision and direction of the band. MALIGNARI has been on an upward trajectory ever since- playing to a consistently growing fan base. Coming as much for the doomful Metal songs as the elaborate stage show, fans of the creepy MALIGNARI generally reminisce of Iron Maiden and Judas Priest when describing the music. While the definite “New wave of British Heavy Metal” presence in their sound is quickly conceded by band members, it is just as quickly dismissed as an unintentional coincidence. It is a point of humor in the band that they were influenced by those great 80’s bands and didn’t even know it. When the classic likes of Alice Cooper, Blue Oyster Cult and Led Zeppelin are brought up, eyes light up in the MALIGNARI cemetery. The inspiration of those elder Metal gods not only speaks through the band’s live performances, but also through the music contained on their forth-coming debut, tentatively titled “Fields of the Fallen.” MALIGNARI have managed to combine both schools of influences with their own juices to make a bubbling cauldron of impressive material.

Location Denver, Colorado - USA

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