MORTIFICATION Relentless (2002 2013) CD

Steve Rowe has been doing this longer than most bands have existed, and Mortification remain one of the most unlikely success stories in extreme metal, an Australian act who carved out real ground in a genre that has never been kind to outsiders.

Relentless pulls together material from the 2002 to 2013 stretch of their catalogue, a period when Rowe was still outrunning a leukaemia diagnosis that would have retired anyone else. The music is exactly what you'd expect from a band who helped define the rougher edges of Christian metal, grinding death-thrash that owes as much to Napalm Death as it does to any theological conviction. If you've written off this corner of the genre without actually listening, this is the corrective. Australian metal history, documented.

CD. Compilation format covering 2002 to 2013 releases.

Fans of: Crimson Moonlight, Living Sacrifice, Deuteronomium, Renascent