MALIGNANT SAVIOUR released their sole album on this day in 1997. Vocalist Craig Land moved to the UK a few years later and has since formed DE PROFUNDIS.
I was in a band which released an album in '97, and the week after that our guitarist flew out to the United Kingdom to emigrate. Three years later, I was able to do the same thing.
Craig Land / De Profundis interview, Invisible Oranges, 2011
I had a death metal band called Malignant Saviour back in South Africa, which existed from 1993-1997. The guitarist emigrated to the UK and over time with me moving over too, and finally finding ourselves living in the same city, we decided to reform the band. We had one rehearsal, and I started looking for musicians to complete the line-up. The plan fell apart but I decided to start something new. Roman (guitars) answered an advert I'd placed on the internet and we decided that we would start something completely new. I brought a drummer friend and Roman brought another guitarist, and we found a bassist from Oxford, which completed the first De Profundis line up.
Craig Land / De Profundis interview, Lords of Metal, 2010