Mortification

Description

The self-titled debut album by the Australian extreme metal band Mortification was released on Intense Records in 1991, a division of Frontline Music Group releasing FMG’s industrial/metal output. The album was recorded by Gil Morales at Power Plant Studio in Melbourne, Australia; with Roger Martinez of Vengeance Rising producing. Mixed by Morales and Martinez. Mortification features Steve Rowe on bass and vocals, Michael Carlisle on guitar and Jayson Sherlock on drums.

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.

[Jamie Lee Rake, CCM, November 1991]

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CD tracklist:

01. Until The End
02. Brutal Warfare
03. Bathed In Blood
04. Satan’s Doom
05. Turn
06. No Return
07. Break The Curse
08. New Awakening
09. The Destroyer Beholds
10. Journey Of Reconciliation
11. The Majestic Infiltration Of Order

Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and CD by Intense Records. The album was released with two different covers. The original cover art (by drummer Jayson Sherlock, nicknamed the “gnarly cover”) was considered too provocative to be sold at Christian bookstores, so a second version with only a green/purple logo on a black background was released to be sold at these stores.

A full-page advertisement for various releases on Frontline’s metal label Intense Records, including Mortification’s self-titled debut album, was featured in the April 1992 issue of CCM Magazine.