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Sheffield heavies Malevolence brought the fists and the fury to The K! Pit with Download Festival.
Crowdsurfers, circle pits and bodies hurling themselves off the bar... it can only be Malevolence in The K! Pit!
Ahead of their tour with Architects and performance at Download Festival, the Yorkshire bruisers bulldozed through our favourite London dive bar Blondies in typically savage fashion.
Cramming 50 of the band's biggest fans into The K! Pit, before the first song even started we had crowdsurfers clambering all over each other, and the chaos didn't slip for the next 30 minutes.
Roaring through the likes of Life Sentence, On Broken Glass and Keep Your Distance, the Brit hardcore favourites dropped a ten ton hammer of riffs and rage in a fist-swinging display of we're-not-here-to-fuck-aboutery.
Check out Malevolence's brutal performance below. Then buy tickets to see them at Download!
Setlist
Malicious Intent
Life Sentence
Slave To Satisfaction
Self Supremacy
On Broken Glass
The Other Side
Keep Your Distance
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Download Festival takes place at Donington Park on June 10-12. Get your tickets now.