Our old friend and collaborator has returned to Malacoda!

Mike was the drummer on our “Restless Dreams” album from 2018 and played on a few tracks off “The Year Walk” EP from 2021. While Mike was never far away from our creative output over the years, it's great to have him officially back in as the drummer of the band. 

We have already completed our drum tracking with Mike for a new full length record, and while Mike may not be able to play every show we are planning, he'll be there for the big ones. The…

Today we've released a new version of “Our Special Place”. Originally off of our 2018 record “Restless Dreams”, we never could figure out how to fit it in with a live set because of how long the song was (clocking in at around 12 mins!). We've always loved this track and we decided to take a section of it and reimagine it so we could tie it in with our more recent direction changes. 

The footage used in the lyric video was filmed in 2017 during the production of Restless Dreams, shot in Toronto's Mount…

Later this week we'll be releasing something special...

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It's been a while hasn't it? 

I think it goes without saying the past few years have been one hell of ride. While we had come out with three EP's in 2021 the process was arduous and the end results were very far from the vision I had for the band when I had started it back in 2014. With every progression we made with each release there was a regression or a compromise in another aspect.

Those three EP's (Crawling Chaos, The Strain, The Year Walk) were B-sides mostly written at some point in 2017-18, and we…