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Australian band Mortification is the first Christian death metal band to have burst forth onto major metal record labels such as Nuclear Blast and Metal Blade over the years. Formed in the late 80s by Steve Rowe of Lightforce, the band has gone through several times of difficulty bankruptcy and cancer, only to pull together in the end and manage another release year after year. After their fourth album, Mortification changed styles from death metal to thrash, and even took on power metal and traditional metal influences in their later days. The band has recently returned to their thrash/death metal roots from their “glory” days. The line-up has also changed many times, but bassist and vocalist SMortification is an Australian Christian extreme metal band. As one of the first and most successful Christian extreme metal bands in the world, they serve as inspiration for many of today’s Christian metal bands. The group was formed in 1990 from the ashes of Christian power metal band Lightforce by Steve Rowe, Cameron Hall and Jayson Sherlock. Over the years Mortification has released over twenty records and several videos on major record labels such as Nuclear Blast.

During the early 1990s Mortification “belonged to the elite of the death metal movement,” especially with their widely praised album Scrolls of the Megilloth. After the departure of their original drummer Mortification began experimenting with groove metal, hardcore punk and power metal.
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  • Chuzhbogh

    v also the new EP, which is more Death Thrash style again.

    9 days ago

  • mrmichel0927

    @Happy_Funeral You should check out Break the Curse and Bloodworld, more on the thrash side though. But I agree you should also check out the newer stuff, a different sound but just as awesome!

    14 days ago

  • nazcapilot

    Personally, I love Relentless. It's probably my favourite Mortification album of this century. Their older material is great, but many people tend to forget about their later work. I find that their newer releases tend to be much more accessible. Check out Relentless, Envision Evangelene, and Hammer of God to start. I'm sure those three with more than answer your question.

    14 days ago

  • Bowtiepunk

    The drumming on Scribe of the Pentateuch leaves room for improvement. Otherwise, I feel like this EP is solid!

    15 days ago

  • Happy_Funeral

    Scrolls Of The Megilloth, Post Momentary Affliction, Mortification are really good albums! Anymore album worth my time? (Similar to the ones I just mentioned)

    18 days ago

  • Astheron_

    Damn, that band was so good in the early 90's. WTF happened to them? Their last releases were just a bunch of shit, sorry.

    19 days ago

  • -ConalKiria-

    Blood World, Brain Cleaner, Erasing the Gobling, Hammer of God, Relentless... My favourite albums so far... although all of them are quite good

    20 days ago

  • talios

    Scrolls of the Megilloth was the first Mortification album I heard and it totally blew me away and still to this day remains one of my all time favorite albums of ANY genre but listening to the new Scribe of the Pentateuch album just makes me feel a little embarrassed for the guys in the band. I'm not entirely sure yet if I can put it down to any one specific thing, the musical performance is great but..... the drum patterns feel lacking in creativity or intensity - even the blast beats come off feeling somewhat lackluster and don't really flow together between the various style/tempo changes ( and just W T F is up with "In Garland Hall"???? ) I commend Steve Rowe for still being out there and performing/recording/writing after everything he's been through but if this is what we're not getting, maybe it's time to lay the mighty Mortification to rest...

    22 days ago
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