Mortification
Studio album by
Mortification
Released12 October 1991
Recorded1991
StudioPower Plant Studio in Carlton, Melbourne, Australia
Genre
Length38:01
LabelIntense, Nuclear Blast
ProducerRoger Martinez
Mortification chronology
Break the Curse
(1990)		 Mortification
(1991)		 Scrolls of the Megilloth
(1992)

Mortification is the debut studio album by Australian Christian extreme metal band Mortification. It was released on 12 October 1991. This album leans more towards death metal than the band's demo album Break the Curse, but retains thrash metal elements. Five songs from the demo album were re-recorded for Mortification. In 2002, The Billboard Guide to Contemporary Christian Music described the album's sound as "punk-meets-metal grind-core".[1] A bundle containing Mortification and Scrolls of the Megilloth was released on KMG Records in 1998 and on Rowe Productions in 2015, with the latter being exclusively on cassette. Soundmass Records re-released the album with five bonus tracks in 2020, and again in 2022 with new remastering and nine bonus tracks recorded at Q.U.T. Campus Club in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on 27 September 1991.

Although not as popular as its 1992 follow-up album Scrolls of the Megilloth, Mortification became reputive in both Christian and secular metal scenes for its remarkably brutal output.[2]

Andrew Tompkins, from the Australian Christian metal band Paramaecium, and Derek Sean and Roger Martinez, from the American Christian metal band Vengeance Rising, were additional musicians on the album, with Sean contributing additional lead guitar and both Martinez and Tompkins contributing additional backing vocals; Martinez was also the producer and one of the two mixers on the album, the other being Gil Morales.

Songs

There are two short grindcore songs: "Turn" (33 s.) and "The Majestic Infiltration of Order" (1:07); the latter is commonly known as "God Rulz" because those are the only lyrics in the song and is still often played at the band's concerts. "The Majestic Infiltration of Order" was later re-recorded as "God Rulz" for Hammer of God, Mortification's eighth studio album, in 1999. Music videos were shot for "Turn," "Until the End," "The Destroyer Beholds," and "The Majestic Infiltration of Order" by film maker Neil Johnson; these videos were released on the video compilation Grind Planets. The songs "The Destroyer Beholds" and "The Majestic Infiltration of Order" were originally titled "Infectious Growth" and "God Rulz".[3]

Artwork

Jayson Sherlock's original cover art (seen above, nicknamed the "gnarly cover") was censored by some Christian bookstores; the label shipped them a version with an alternate album cover solely containing the band's logo. The 2020 reissue contains both album covers.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Mortification

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Until the End"Michael CarlisleCarlisle3:47
2."Brutal Warfare[a]"Steve Rowe
3:57
3."Bathed in Blood"SherlockSherlock4:31
4."Satan's Doom"SherlockSherlock6:05
5."Turn[a]"SherlockSherlock0:33
6."No Return"SherlockSherlock2:42
7."Break the Curse[a]"RoweRowe2:43
8."New Awakening"CarlisleCarlisle5:04
9."The Destroyer Beholds1"RoweRowe3:19
10."Journey of Reconciliation[a]1"
  • Sherlock
  • Rowe
Sherlock4:13
11."The Majestic Infiltration of Order[a][b]"RoweRowe1:07
Total length:38:01
a Songs re-recorded from Mortification's Break the Curse demo album
b Re-recorded as "God Rulz" on Hammer of God (1999)
2020 reissue bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
12."Until the End" (Live 1992)3:36
13."Brutal Warfare" (Live 1992)3:57
14."Satan's Doom" (Live 1992)6:09
15."Journey of Reconciliation" (Live 1992)4:29
16."Bathed in Blood2" (Live 1991)4:22
Total length:60:34
"Live 1991" (2022 reissue bonus tracks)
No.TitleLength
11."Searching" (Live 1991)3:59
12."Impulsation" (Live 1991)4:16
13."Break the Curse" (Live 1991)2:45
14."Bathed in Blood2" (Live 1991)4:18
15."Blood Sacrifice" (Live 1991)3:30
16."Steve Rowe Talks" (Live 1991)1:26
17."God Rulz" (Live 1991)1:09
18."Turn" (Live 1991)0:36
19."Until the End" (Live 1991)3:44
Total length:63:48

Personnel

Notes

1. "The Destroyer Beholds" and "Journey of Reconciliation" are both on the same track (track 9) on the 2022 reissue.

2. "Bathed in Blood (Live 1991)" is an identical recording on both the 2020 and 2022 reissues.

References

  1. ↑ Alfonso, Barry (1 October 2002). The Billboard Guide to Contemporary Christian Music (Digital). New York: Random House Digital. p. 200. ISBN 9780823077182. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
  2. ↑ Lahtonen, Jussi (25 October 2005). "White Metal". Sue Rock Punk Metal Zine (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 27 May 2011. Retrieved 7 September 2007.
  3. ↑ Campbell, Vic (18 December 2014). Metal Missionary: The Steve Rowe Story. VC Media. pp. 88, 89. ISBN 9780987383853.
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