Malevolent

Malevolent is a death metal band from Sacramento, California. It is described as a Sacramento, CA death metal group, and its sound is linked in the available information to death metal, grindcore and hardcore influences. The act is also associated with related extreme-metal tags including black metal, progressive death metal, deathcore and dubstep.

The name is also used in a separate description of a one-person melancholic ambient black metal project from West Tennessee, but the Sacramento group is the act identified in the verified facts. The project description mentions themes of nihilism, sorrow and misanthropy, and says that it does not release its lyrics. It also notes a debut release issued in 2019.