MORTIFICATION Triumph Of Mercy (1998) Digipak CD

Australian extreme metal has a history that doesn't get nearly enough credit internationally, and Melbourne's Mortification are one of the genres' most relentless exports. Steve Rowe and company spent the nineties proving that Christian conviction and genuine heaviness weren't mutually exclusive, and Triumph of Mercy is one of the later-era records that shows them still with something to say.

By 1998 Mortification were threading death metal aggression with melodic passages that felt hard-won rather than polished, a band working through ideas rather than repeating a formula. It's a fascinating document of where Australian extreme metal was sitting at the tail end of the decade, and for anyone interested in the global Christian metal underground, this is a touchstone record. Australian music history, pressed into a digipak.

Full length album on CD, digipak format, released 1998. Genre: Extreme Metal / Christian Metal. Origin: Australia.

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