:Malignant Tumour

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Malignant Tumour was formed in Ostrava at the end of 1991 by Martin "Bilos" Bílek and Roman Restel, at the ages of 15 and 14, respectively.{{cite web|url=http://www.queensofsteel.com/2005/10/malignant-tumour-eng/ |title=Malignant Tumour (Eng.) |date=29 October 2005 |publisher=queensofsteel.com |accessdate=18 February 2015}} When drummer Libor Šmakal joined in 1992, their style became influenced by the work of British grindcore band Carcass.{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.ws/noiseattack06/mt.htm |title=Malignant Tumour Interview |publisher=geocities.ws |accessdate=18 February 2015}} In this lineup, they recorded their early demo tapes Cadaveric Incubator of Endo-Parasites (1993), Symphonies for Pathologist (1994), and Analyse of Pathological Conceptions (1995). In late 1995, Šmakal was replaced by Michal "Cichoň" Cichý, leading to Restel departing as well and being replaced by Otto Beran. The same year, Malignant Tumour released a split EP with Decomposed, titled Malignus Morbus. This was followed a year later by three more split EPs: Forensic Clinicism – The Sanguine Article with Immured, Sick Sinus Syndrome with Mastic Scum, and Swarming of Virulency with Ingrowing.

In 1997, the band released a compilation EP titled Hungry Urinary Urn, split with Negligent Collateral Collapse, C.S.S.O., and Catasexual Urge Motivation, as well as a split album with Squash Bowels, titled Eat the Flesh... and Vomica. Cichý and Beran left the band shortly after.

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In 1997, Marek "Švejk" Pavlík was hired to play drums, just as Bilos took over bass duties—leading to Richard Chrobok coming onboard as the band's guitarist. Around this time, the theme of the band's lyrics changed from pathological topics to socially aware ones—opposing homophobia, inequality, racism, and slavery.{{cite web|url=http://braindeadzine.net/interview_mt.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219140252/http://braindeadzine.net/interview_mt.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 February 2015 |title=Malignant Tumour Interview |publisher= braindeadzine.net |accessdate=18 February 2015}} Malignant Tumour went on to record the demo tape Killing for Profit in 1997 and the split EPs Rock Stars – Money Wars with Dead Infection and Murder for You to Eat with Vomito, in 1998. This was followed by another split album, Is This the Earth's Last Century?, with Alienation Mental, and their first solo EP, Equality!?, also in 1998. At the end of the year, drummer Švejk left the band and Cichoň returned.

Cichý was soon replaced by Michal "Kameň" Kaminsky, and Chrobok departed in mid-2000, being replaced by Marek Marunič. The band then recorded and released two split EPs: ...And Man Made the End with Agathocles and Get to Attack with Unholy Grave.

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In 2001, Bilos relocated from Czechia to the Netherlands, where an entirely new lineup was formed, including brothers Johan and Jelle Smits on drums and bass, respectively. They released the split EP Oegstgeest Grindcore with Intumescence in 2002. A year later, they issued the double split EP In Oil We Trust with Critical Madness, Szargyerek, and Anubis, as well as their first full-length album, Dawn of the New Age. Bilos returned to Ostrava in mid-2003.

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Once back in Czechia, Malignant Tumour added Robert Šimek on bass and Martin "Marsel" Ondejka on drums.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}} In 2004, they released the split EP Hammer and Anvil with Lycathrophy. Marsel died later that year and was replaced by David Ševčík.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}} A year later, the band issued their second full-length album, Burninhell. It featured a guest appearance by guitarist Martin "Korál" Vyorálek, who later became a permanent member of the band. The record won second place in the Album of the Year category of that year's Břitva music poll.{{cite news|title=Výsledky 2005 |url=http://cenybritva.cz/vysledky-2005/ |website=cenybritva.cz |access-date=11 October 2023 |language=cs |trans-title=2005 results}} In 2006, they recorded their next split LP, titled R'n'R Engine, with Gurkha, which won third place in that year's Břitva music poll.{{cite news|title=Výsledky 2006 |url=http://cenybritva.cz/vysledky-2006/ |website=cenybritva.cz |access-date=11 October 2023 |language=cs |trans-title=2006 results}}

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In 2008, Malignant Tumour released their next album, In Full Swing. It received praise from critics, some of whom compared the band to Motörhead.{{cite web|url=http://www.metalunderground.com/reviews/details.cfm?releaseid=3287 |title=In Full Swing review |publisher=metalunderground.com |accessdate=18 February 2015}} The record won the Břitva music polls for Album of the Year,{{cite news|title=Nahrávka roku (nová samostatná alba/dema) |url=http://cenybritva.cz/vysledky-2008/ |website=cenybritva.cz |access-date=1 October 2023 |language=cs |trans-title=Album of the year (new independent albums/demos)}} and Malignant Tumour was named Live Band of the Year.{{cite news|title=Koncertní kapela roku |url=http://cenybritva.cz/vysledky-2008/ |website=cenybritva.cz |access-date=1 October 2023 |language=cs |trans-title=Live band of the year}} The record was also nominated for Album of the Year at that year's Anděl Awards, in the Hard & Heavy category.{{cite news|title=Nominace na žánrové ceny Anděl v sekci Hard & Heavy |url=https://www.fobiazine.net/news_detail/3302/nominace-na-zanrove-ceny-andel-v-sekci-hard-heavy |website=fobiazine.net |date=20 February 2009 |access-date=11 October 2023 |language=cs |trans-title=Nominations for Anděl genre awards in the Hard & Heavy category}}

Two years later, the group went to work on a new record, with Andy Classen—the first time they had hired a professional producer. Earthshaker received praise from reviewers,{{cite news|title=Malignant Tumour: Earthshaker |url=https://www.muzikus.cz/recenze/Malignant-Tumour-Earthshaker~22~zari~2010/ |website=muzikus.cz |date=22 September 2010 |access-date=11 October 2023 |language=cs}}{{cite news|title=Malignant Tumour: Earthshaker |url=http://www.metalopolis.net/Articles.asp?id=5364 |website=metalopolis.net |date=26 September 2010 |access-date=11 October 2023 |language=cs}} won Album of the Year at the 2010 Anděl Awards in the Hard & Heavy category,{{cite news|title=Výsledky ročníků cen Anděl |url=https://andelceny.cz/ |website=andelceny.cz |access-date=1 October 2023 |language=cs |trans-title=Yearly results of the Anděl Awards}} and reached second place in the Břitva poll.{{cite news|title=Výsledky 2010 |url=http://cenybritva.cz/vysledky-2010/ |website=cenybritva.cz |access-date=11 October 2023 |language=cs |trans-title=2010 results}}

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In December 2012, drummer David Ševčík left the band, and his place was taken by Petr "Bohdič" Bohda.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}} In early 2013, Malignant Tumour entered the studio once more to record their next album, Overdose & Overdrive, again with Andy Classen as producer.{{cite web|url=http://www.metalsucks.net/2013/12/06/best-metal-albums-2013-chosen-metal-musicians-part-viii/ |title=The Best Metal Albums of 2013 |date=6 December 2013 |publisher=Metal Sucks |accessdate=18 February 2015}} The record came out in time for the band to go on tour that spring, including a stint at Neurotic Deathfest, in the Netherlands.{{cite news|title=Neurotic Deathfest 2013 |url=https://www.concertarchives.org/concerts/neurotic-deathfest--2439682 |website=concertarchives.org |access-date=11 October 2023}} Dutch death metal vocalist Martin van Drunen ranked Overdose & Overdrive as the best metal album of 2013.{{cite news|title=The Best Metal Albums of 2013, As Chosen by Metal Musicians Themselves — Part VIII |url=https://www.metalsucks.net/2013/12/06/best-metal-albums-2013-chosen-metal-musicians-part-viii/ |website=metalsucks.net |date=6 December 2013 |access-date=11 October 2023}}

Malignant Tumour issued their subsequent record, The Metallist, in 2016.{{cite news|title=Malignant Tumour – Máme rádi, aby deska zněla prostě skvěle, měla nádherný obal, pokud možno i něco navíc. |url=https://www.fobiazine.net/article/9809/malignant-tumour--mame-radi-aby-deska-znela-proste-skvele-mela-nadherny-obal-pokud-mozno-i-neco-navic--ti-co-si-potom-koupi-original-nosic-aby-opravdu-dostali-co-si-zaslouzi-/ |website=fobiazine.net |date=6 November 2016 |access-date=11 October 2023 |language=cs |trans-title=Malignant Tumour – We would like the record to sound simply great, have a beautiful cover, and if possible something extra.}}{{cite news|title=

Malignant Tumour přepisují vlastní dějiny. The Metallist je nejnápaditějším albem v jejich historii |url=https://www.ostravan.cz/35917/malignant-tumour-prepisuji-vlastni-dejiny-the-metallist-je-nejnapaditejsim-albem-v-jejich-historii/ |website=ostravan.cz |date=24 October 2016 |access-date=11 October 2023 |language=cs |trans-title=Malignant Tumour are rewriting their own history. The Metallist is the most striking album in their career}} This was followed the same year by The Way of Metallist 1991–2016, a DVD retrospective of the band's career to date.{{cite news|title=Malignant Tumour – The Way of Metallist 1991–2016 |url=https://www.fobiazine.net/article/9945/malignant-tumour--the-way-of-metallist-1991-2016/ |website=fobiazine.net |date=31 December 2016 |access-date=11 October 2023 |language=cs}} The film was submitted to the 2016 Czech Lion Awards.{{cite news|title=Seznam filmů roku 2016 |url=https://www.filmovaakademie.cz/cz/2016/seznam-filmu-roku-2016 |website=filmovaakademie.cz |access-date=11 October 2023 |language=cs |trans-title=List of films of 2016}} The band's seventh studio album, Maximum Rock 'n' Roll, came out in September 2024.

Current

• Martin "Bilos" Bílek – vocals (1991–present), guitar (1991–1997; 2001–present), bass (1997–2001)
• Robert Šimek – bass, backing vocals (2003–present)
• Martin "Korál" Vyorálek – guitar, backing vocals (2006–present)
• Petr "Bohdič" Bohda – drums (2013–present)

Past

• Roman Restel – bass (1991–1995)
• Libor Šmakal – drums (1993–1995)
• Michal "Cichoň" Cichý – drums (1995–1997)
• Otto "Oťas" Beran – bass (1995–1996)
• Marek "Švejk" Pavlík – drums (1997–1999)
• Richard Chrobok – lead guitar (1997–1999)
• Michal "Kameň" Kaminský – drums (1999–2001)
• Petr "Dino" Šarina – bass (2001)
• Marek Marunič – guitar (2000)
• Jelle Smit – bass (2001–2003)
• Johan Smit – drums (2001–2003)
• Martin "Marsel" Ondejka – drums (2003–2005)
• David Ševčík – drums (2005–2013)

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|align=center|2008

|In Full Swing

|Hard & Heavy Album of the Year

|{{nom}}

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|align=center|2010

|Earthshaker

|Hard & Heavy Album of the Year

|{{won}}

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|align=center|2005

|Burninhell

|Album of the Year

|{{nom}}

|-

|align=center|2006

|R'n'R Engine

|Mini Album of the Year

|{{nom}}

|-

|align=center|2008

|In Full Swing

|Album of the Year

|{{won}}

|-

|align=center|2008

|Malignant Tumour

|Live Band of the Year

|{{won}}

|-

|align=center|2010

|Earthshaker

|Album of the Year

|{{nom}}

|-

|align=center|2010

|"Earthshaker" video

|Music Video of the Decade

|{{won}}{{cite news|title=Videoklip desetiletí |url=http://cenybritva.cz/videoklip-desetileti/ |website=cenybritva.cz |access-date=12 October 2023 |language=cs |trans-title=Music video of the decade}}

|-

|align=center|2010

|20th Anniversary Concert

|Concert & Festival of the Year

|{{nom}}{{cite news|title=Výsledky 2011 – Koncert & Festival Roku |url=http://cenybritva.cz/vysledky-2011/ |website=cenybritva.cz |access-date=12 October 2023 |language=cs |trans-title=2011 results – Concert & festival of the year}}

|-

|align=center|2013

|Overdose & Overdrive

|Album of the Year

|{{nom}}{{cite news|title=Ceny Břitva oznamují nominace za rok 2013 |url=http://cenybritva.cz/ceny-britva-oznamuji-nominace-za-rok-2013/ |website=cenybritva.cz |access-date=12 October 2023 |language=cs |trans-title=Břitva Awards announce nominations for 2013}}

|-

|align=center|2013

|"Overdose & Overdrive" video

|Music Video of the Year

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|-

|align=center|2014

|"At Full Throttle" video

|Music Video of the Year

|{{won}}{{cite news|title=Výsledky 2014 |url=http://cenybritva.cz/vysledky-2014/ |website=cenybritva.cz |access-date=12 October 2023 |language=cs |trans-title=2014 results}}

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|align=center|2016

|The Metallist

|Album of the Year

|{{nom}}{{cite news|title=Ceny Břitva oznamují nominace za rok 2016 |url=http://cenybritva.cz/ceny-britva-oznamuji-nominace-za-rok-2016-2/ |website=cenybritva.cz |access-date=12 October 2023 |language=cs |trans-title=Břitva Awards announce nominations for 2016}}

|-

|align=center|2016

|The Way of Metallist

|Video of the Year

|{{won}}{{cite news|title=Výsledky 2016 |url=http://cenybritva.cz/vysledky-2016-2/ |website=cenybritva.cz |access-date=12 October 2023 |language=cs |trans-title=2016 results}}

|-

|align=center|2016

|"Walk as We Talk" video

|Music Video of the Year

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|align=center|2016

|Back to the 1991 Anniversary Concert

|Concert & Festival of the Year

|{{nom}}

|-

|align=center|2016

|Back to the 1991 Anniversary Concert

|Delight of the Year

|{{nom}}

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|align=center|2016

|The Way of Metallist

|Delight of the Year

|{{won}}

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|align=center|2016

|The Way of Metallist

|Documentary Film of the Year

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Full

• Dawn of the New Age (2003)
• Burninhell (2005)
• In Full Swing (2008)
• Earthshaker (2010)
• Overdose & Overdrive (2013)
• The Metallist (2016)
• Maximum Rock 'n' Roll (2024)

Split

• Eat the Flesh... and Vomica – split with Squash Bowels (1997)
• Is This Earth's Last Century? – split with Alienation Mental (1998)
• R'n'R Engine – split with Gurkha (2006)

Other

• Four-way split with Agathocles / Abortion / Din-Addict (1998)
• Demos / Singles Collection '94–'98 (2002)
• Grinding Party – split with Pulmonary Fibrosis (2003)
• And Some Sick Parts Rotting Out There (compilation, 2010)

Full

• Equality!? (1998)
• We Are the Metal – limited edition issued with In Full Swing (2008)

Split

• Malignus Morbus – split with Decomposed (1995)
• Forensic Clinicism – The Sanguine Article – split with Immured (1996)
• Sick Sinus Syndrome – split with Mastic Scum (1996)
• Swarming of Virulency – split with Ingrowing (1996)
• Hungry Urinary URN – split with Negligent Collateral Collapse / C.S.S.O. / Catasexual Urge Motivation (1997)
• Rock Stars – Money Wars – split with Dead Infection (1998)
• Murder for You to Eat – split with Vomito (1998)
• ...And Man Made the End – split with Agathocles (2000)
• Get to Attack – split with Unholy Grave (2000)
• Oegstgeest Grindcore – split with Intumescence (2002)
• In Oil We Trust – split with Critical Madnes / Szargyerek / Anubis (2003)
• Hammer and Anvil – split with Lycanthrophy (2004)
• Nación de Metaleros – split with Acidez (2014)

• Cadaveric Incubator of Endo-Parasites (1993)
• Symphonies for Pathologist (1994)
• Analyse of Pathological Conceptions (1995)
• Killing for Profit (1997)

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Music videos

• "Clearance of Century" (2005)
• "Saddam Hussein Is Rock 'n Roll" (2006)
• "We Are the Metal" (2008)
• "Dressed to Kill" (2008)
• "Earthshaker" (2010)
• "Overdose & Overdrive" (2013)
• "At Full Throttle" (2014)
• "Walk as We Talk" (2016)

Live videos

• "Infernör" – live from Obscene Extreme (2008)
• "Bristroll" – live as support for Slayer (2008)
• "Satan Rise" – live from Obscene Extreme (2010)
• "Metal Artillery" – live as support for Slayer (2012)
• "Secret Source" – live from Brutal Assault (2013)

DVDs

• Burning Sensation Tour Wildwest Tour (2005)
• Satan Is Real Tour – limited edition with R'n'R Engine (2006)
• Europe Football Championship (2007)
• The Way of Metallist 1991–2016 (2016){{cite news|title=The Way of Metallist |url=https://www.csfd.cz/film/472216-the-way-of-metallist/recenze/ |website=csfd.cz |access-date=2 October 2023 |language=cs}}

Others

• SmogOva Zona – documentary/music series (2012)

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