Mortification (band)

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Mortification are an Australian Christian death metal band formed in 1987 as a heavy metal group, Lightforce, by bassist/singer Steve Rowe. By 1990, in the Melbourne suburb of Moorabbin, they renamed to Mortification with the line-up of Rowe, guitarist Michael Carlisle, and drummer Jayson Sherlock. Mortification have released fourteen studio albums, three compilation albums, three extended plays, six live discs, one demo album, one box set, and several videos on major record labels such as Nuclear Blast. As one of the earliest internationally successful Australian Christian death metal bands, they inspired later similar groups. During the early 1990s, Mortification played death and thrash metal. After Sherlock's departure, Mortification experimented with groove metal, hardcore punk and power metal. They achieved commercial success with Blood World in 1994, and received critical acclaim for 1996's EnVision EvAngelene. Despite the lack of subsequent commercial success or mainstream critical...

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