NEWS: Mallavora unveil “Waste” with album to follow!

Fusing together ferocious riffs with elements of R&B, soul and the rich cultural heritage of vocalist Jessica Douek’s Jewish-Middle Eastern roots, Mallavora have been blazing a trail in Alternative Metal that have seen them perform at Download Festival in 2024, 2000 Trees and share stages with Skindred. They’ve announced that their next album “What If Better Never Comes?” will be unleashed via Church Road Records on 27th March 2026 with single “Waste” the first glimpse.

The band comments: “We had fun with ‘Waste’ and experimenting with its contrasting tones. The track confronts misogyny and the impossible expectations placed on women. It’s scathing, sharp, and almost gleeful in its indictment of this pervasive societal sickness.”

“We are so proud to announce the release of our debut album, ‘What If Better Never Comes?’. This record is a conceptual exploration of sickness – personal and societal – and it’s given us the space to express our experiences of difference in new and expansive ways. We hope its vulnerability, and the message it carries, brings comfort and catharsis to anyone who’s ever lived inside emotions too complex to name.”

Guitarist Larry Sobieraj adds: “It’s almost like a therapy tool to process these complicated and difficult things that a lot of people don’t understand, things that are hard to put into words,.I want to be able to sit there and listen to the music and feel how I felt while writing it.”

Vocalist Jessica Douek adds: “It makes it quite powerful in the sense that I can feel what he has written, and then I put that into words, associated with grief of becoming ill or losing a healthier version of yourself. There’s a lot of rage about societal barriers and being treated differently. The industry, as it currently is, isn’t sustainable for us with what we’re dealing with. There’s an existential worry that we won’t be able to have the career we want unless we forge this change ourselves.”

You can catch Mallavora supporting The City Is Ours across the United Kingdom this November:

13.11 – Plymouth, The Junction
14.11 – Bristol, The Exchange
15.11 – London, Downstairs at The Dome
16.11 – Bournemouth, The Bear Cave
18.11 – Norwich, Waterfront Studio
19.11 – Manchester, The Star and Garter
20.11 – Glasgow, The Garage Attic
21.11 – Nottingham, Billy Bootleggers
22.11 – Leeds, The Key Club
23.11 – Birmingham, O2 Institute 3