In summer 2014, Malignus Youth reunited for a one-time fundraising show at the Rialto Theater in Tucson, AZ. Footage from this concert was recorded for a Kickstarter -funded documentary, “Family: The Story of Malignus Youth” (working title). On 2 June 2019, the full concert video was released on YouTube by…
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In the next few years, as the original vinyl pressings became rarer and rarer, demand for Malignus Youth on CD prompted a 1998 re-release of the Malignus Youth EP, the Crisis EP and the full-length LP, More To It on a single CD entitled Vinal CD . These CDs are…
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Following their 1994 tour, the members of Malignus Youth separated to pursue different academic and musical goals and unofficially disbanded.
Between tours in 1993, Malignus Youth released a setting of the Roman Catholic Mass , designated ” Missa brevis “. This work, an homage to the Western Classical tradition of composing music for liturgical texts, and featuring the Greek and Latin text with additional English lyrics, was released with additional…
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These unique elements of Malignus Youth’s music were displayed in the 1991 full-length LP More To It , released on blue vinyl. This album is now out of print.
In 1990, a second EP, Crisis , was released as a limited edition red and white vinyl which has since become out of print. The music contained themes of conflict, personal loss, fear of growing up, hopelessness and suicide. Crisis marked a diversion from punk rock conventions by adopting composition…
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In the late 1980s, the active punk rock scene in Cochise County surged new bands such as Dover Trench , Opinion Zero , Headspace (not to be confused with the British band), Blood Spasm , Civil Order , Feast Upon Cactus Thorns , Cosmic Jackhammer , E.G.A.D.S. , Attack Mode…
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In January 1988, using a late 1970s model four-track reel to reel, eight songs were recorded live in Martin’s parents’ bedroom-turned-studio. These eight tracks were released on a clear vinyl extended-play (EP) album, self-entitled Malignus Youth on their new label Youth Inc Records . These albums are now out of…
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