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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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  • cauldronborn86

    40:31

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  • nazcapilot

    I'm not going to lie. This band has been quite the treat for the past few weeks that I knew they existed. I'm glad that Becoming The Archetype brought me here because I've been blown away by this band! I'm glad that they are still in operation. It's just bad that they aren't as well known as many other bands in the Christian world today. God rulz! \m/ \M/ \m/

    last month

  • Parallax_

    decent music

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  • cauldronborn86

    brutall warfareeeee

    last month

  • yescinderella

    Una gran banda!! todos sus abums son buenisimos...

    last month

  • cauldronborn86

    Scrolls of the Megilloth !!!

    December 2011

  • UndeadMessiah

    Scrolls of the Megilloth!!!!!!!

    December 2011

  • LordsOfTheStorm

    Scrolls is quite a good album.

    December 2011

  • -Rivfader-

    This band rules. Heathens can go cry a river.

    November 2011

  • ale193

    The vocals on the later albums are just rather sad, but Scrolls is an excellent example of old school Death metal, and is easily on part with the more well known classic masters of Death metal. the vocals and the bass playing are particularly awesome.

    November 2011

  • mrmichel0927

    What a polite, friendly comment! Here we go again...

    November 2011

  • Heidar666

    ONLY US MORTIFICATION, FUCK CHRISTIAN SCUMS!

    October 2011

  • starbearer-

    wow... BlasphemateMe... seriously. Obviously you don't like this band. Just stop posting on this page already. Last FM is about people sharing their favorite bands with others. If you absolutely hate this band that much then just go to bands pages who you DO like and say positive things about them. As you can see you're out numbered so why not just f#ck off.

    October 2011

  • starbearer-

    yeah... after post momentary affliction... i know Steve got cancer and everything, but seriously... after p.m.a. his lyrics got just more and more cheesy. The music became really mediocre. But BEFORE that all happened. I think Scrolls of the Megaloth is still one of the heaviest death metal ablums of any band at that time. Not the absolute heaviest, but right up there. To comment on the post below. If a band's message is about approving of any kind of injustice or prejudice toward others HAS been, IS, and WILL always be totally lame.

    October 2011

  • NorseDave

    Could care less that the band was Christian or not. [2] Just like NSBM if a band plays awesome music i don't care about the message behind!

    September 2011

  • DemonSanctuary

    @BlasphemateMe.... cool story bro.

    September 2011

  • BlasphemateMe

    not what i said at all. they came after the founders but contributed nothing to the genre, not musically, not artistically. to each his own, but sometimes what we like is not the same as what's important.

    August 2011

  • mrmichel0927

    You postulate that how good a band is is mainly contingent upon the time when the band existed, which is certainly naïve. But I'm not going to argue about this any more. I love Mortification, a lot of people love Mortification, and that's that. Scrolls of the Megilloth will forever be one of my favorites <3

    August 2011

  • BlasphemateMe

    this band imitates the greats: they were 5 years too late for speed metal with their earliest material. better examples: destruction, kreator, metallica. then they were about 3 years too late for death metal with scrolls... but more importantly, they brought nothing new to the table. scrolls... borrows heavily from better acts like morpheus descends, gorguts, suffocation, with less cohesive song writing. songs are directionless. there's an overall mood, i.e. standard death metal - easy to imitate once its been established. you can tell with many transitions they don't really know what they're doing (compared to, say, incantation - onward to golgotha). but they do have a passive aggresive modus operandi: vanquish the demon because i don't understand it.

    August 2011

  • Mercenarion

    Scrolls of the Megilloth is the only album worth talking about by these guys. An amazing blend of death and thrash. Could care less that the band was Christian or not.

    August 2011
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