Mortification

Mortification is a Christian metal band from Australia. Founded in 1990 out of the 1980s metal band Lightforce by Steve Rowe, Cameron Hall and Jayson Sherlock. Mortification had been one of the first extreme Christian metal bands. Especial

Mortification is a Christian metal band from Australia. Founded in 1990 out of the 1980s metal band Lightforce by Steve Rowe, Cameron Hall and Jayson Sherlock. Mortification had been one of the first extreme Christian metal bands. Especially their masterpiece 'Scrolls Of The Megilloth' is one of the best death metal releases ever. The way Mortification combined the christian faith with the heaviness of the music was unique and many of today's Christian Metal band were inspired by Mortification.

In the late-eighties, bassist Steve Rowe played in the Australian classic metal band Lightforce, with a rather great succes in their homeland. Around 1990, the band broke up, but Steve still wanted to play heavy music with a christian message, and he was joined by drummer Jayson Sherlock and guitarist Cameron Hall. They releaed a demo in 1990 entitled "Break the Curse" under the Lightforce name, where Steve handled the vocals. With this release, the band changed musically towards thrash metal with a death metal touch to it. Steve felt the new direction of the band also requirred a new name, and so the band changed their name to Mortification. "Break the Curse" was remixed and re-released in 1994 by Nuclear Blast Records with a bonus track called "Butchered Mutilation".