Get Down by Malhavoc

This Canadian JUNO nominated record was produced by Dave "Rave" Ogilvie in 1994 just after he had finished producing the insane sessions for Marilyn Manson's ANTICHRIST SUPERSTAR album. Yet somehow this independent Malhavoc album released thru Universal/Cargo more then a year before ANTICHRIST SUPERSTAR. This was the beginning of the relationship between Rave Ogilvie and Malhavoc main man James, that continued for seven years, right up until their work on Japan's electropunk Mad Capsule Market's Pulse EP in the spring of 2001. Their production teamwork includes famous remixes for NIN and MOTLEY CRUE and four infamous unreleased remixes for TOOL and a few other artists. This concept album GET DOWN is about a rock star, MCJC who is having trouble understanding his fans who misinterpret his art. Based on factual incidents that happened to MALHAVOC and many other artists and bands, this fictitious story unintentionally sounds similar to the Kurt Cobain story, who like the record's MCJC, in a real weird coincidence, killed himself right after GET DOWN was finished and before it was released. This album also predates the Columbine High School Massacre which also has a lot of similarities to MALHAVOC's previous album PREMEDITATED MURDER. The album cover is a live photo of MALHAVOC singer James C. (aka MCJC /Jimi LaMort) taken at the famous annual Carleton's University KOSMIC PARTY on Saturday November 13th?, 1993. Kosmic 1993 "Dante's Inferno" may have been the biggest fundraising party in Ottawa that year. MALHAVOC were asked to play because the theme that year was Dante's Inferno/HELL! With approximately over 2000 people attending, the sold out event took place at the University's Architecture Building (AA). The architecture students has turned the whole building into a hellish labyrinth, with many rooms. The largest main room is where MALHAVOC played last, following 2-3 cover bands that all seemed to be made up of architecture students in full costume parodying classic evil metal and hip-hop songs. MALHAVOC thought if they came out and did their regular dark evil noisy performance it would empty the hall. So they played a couple hip-hop covers to start the show including an excellent version of what was the number one song at the time JUMP by Kriss-Kross. The crowd went nuts and seemed to be having the enjoying themselves a little too for the frontman of MALHAVOC, James. The band then headed into their own Hip-Hop influenced extreme noise and the packed audience kept on dancing and having the time of their lives. The fourth song S.C.E.X a song about man's duality of good and evil. As usual the 'singer' carved a pentagram into his chest a cinematic symbol of a wolfman. The fifth song was WOODWITCH based on a horror novel by Stephen Gregory. It details a man's obsession with his penis. As usual the frontman James decided to take off all his clothes at the start of the song (except for the padding he wore on his hands and knees because he had his broken hand in a cast from a previous performance) and in full view starting masturbating center stage while rapping, or screaming if u will, as blood was dripping down his chest. People had fainted from shock and horror while attending previous MALHAVOC performances. It was this reputation that got them this 'HELL' gig. They had full approval from the promoters who wanted to create hell, as it was an 18+ crowd. James then in the middle of the song threw himself on the crowd. Again quite typical, but the packed floor in front of the stage unexpectedly parted like the red sea. James ended up rolling around on the floor when the excellent local photographer SHAWN SCALLEN snapped the album cover's photograph!! This precise moment also started the concept for GET DOWN album! MCJC had appeared and Scallen had captured it on Nov. 13th 1993! Which predates the international arrival of the similar artist Marilyn Manson, whose Trent Reznor produced debut album, Portrait of an American Family was released on July 19, 1994! ℗ 1994 Cargo