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Brain Cleaner

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I love this album, My fav song is 12 men because it makes me feel of Jesus the most of all. You know I listen to it when i am prayering man so cooool. These guys kick Metallica's ass with this heavy heavy metal album. JESUS MAN

it\'s a good album, where mortification play an heavy death metal with a very hevy growl of steve.
The album starts with Nocturnal a greath track with an eccelent percussion of jason and a good riff of giutar.
The Scrolls of the megilloth track is introduced by an organ theme wich bring us to a powerful guitar riff and to a violent death metal song. Good album but not as Break the curse

As was "Relentless", "Brain Cleaner" is a very diverse album, but the overall sound is more brutal, bringing back a lot of the death metal influence on most of the tracks. Steve's vocals are his best in years, very reminiscent of the "Post Momentary Affliction" era. His unique grind vocal style is pretty much the band's trademark, so a lot of fans rejoiced when they heard this album. The songs here are great and despite the weaker production, this album holds up extremely well.

Mortification: Brain Cleaner
Released: 2004
Label: Rowe Productions

This is Mortification's highly anticipated 12th album. Brain Cleaner starts off with the song Boa Constrictor, a very fast speed metal track that reminds me of Web of Fire from Relentless, but not nearly as good. Honestly this is my least favorite song on the album. I simply feel that it’s too long and repetitive. It’s not a bad song; I just feel that the other ten songs on the disc really outweigh it. The Bass line and distorted vocals are really cool sounding though. Next comes Too Much Pain. This song sounds like it came off of Post Momentary Affliction. A nice piece of the old death/thrash mix with some nice deep death growls by Steve Rowe. He also throws in some nice high-pitched shrieks. There is a nice guitar solo about two minutes into the song. The lyrics are cool as Steve explains that we should rejoice in our sufferings because it makes us more Christ like. Purest Intent is a nice groovy song with very heavy plodding verses and groovy chorus's. Lyrically Steve explains why he won’t put out Scrolls part two. Free as a Bird is an instrumental, and a very good one at that. Steve Rowe plays a nice refreshing bass intro before Mick and Mike kick in. Steve is in my opinion one of the better metal bass players. Unlike most metal bass Steve's is heavy, clear, and actually drives a lot of the songs. The bass carries on into the title track Brain Cleaner. This groovy song is laden with guitar leads and solos. Definitely a song that classic metal fans can get into. Lyrics state how the Bible can, you guessed it, clean your brain of all the lies of Satan. This leads us to my favorite song on the disc. I’m not Your Commodity starts off with some water sound effects, which dissolves into a breaking crashing sound. The crashing takes us into a thrashy deathy onslaught; only to slow down to a pummeling first verse that sounds like a marching brutal army of death (sorry I got a little carried away). Steve's deep baritone vocals kick in and utter the words "I downright refuse to be, your financial commodity." And from there on the brutal metal onslaught destroys you with an insane guitar solo at the end. The Flu Virus starts off with some creepy buzzing noise that dissolves into a nice speedy thrash song about how we should take precautions when we are sick but to also rely on God to heal us and not only on the medicine. The guitar solo at the end of the song rules all. Mick Jelnic places that metal ax well. Living Like a Zombie starts off with an intro that reminds me of the old intro to Scrolls of the Megilloth. The song actually reminds me a bit of Metallica's Master of Puppets, only much heavier, and with more extreme vocals, and a thundering bass, and the solo is better, ok so it sounds nothing like Master of Puppets. The solo is great on this song and leads right into a riff that sounds exactly like the riff from Distarnished Priest. This song is
about the joy of sharing Christ with the underground metal heads, and the lifestyle that comes from this. Twelve Men was an old Lightforce song written in 1986. Only now it is totally Mortified with Steve Rowe's yelling, some thundering guitars, bass, drums, and a bunch of wicked solos. A song about how to be fishers of Men. Louder Than the Devil is a nice thrash/death song with some old school shout down Satan lyrics. "I'll blow out his brains, he's gonna wish that I was never born." Some may call this corny or immature but it’s no worse than some anti Christian songs I've heard. E.D. is a fast funny song in the same vein as DWAM or The Majestic Infiltration of Order. There’s a sound byte a few minutes after the song of a bomb exploding. Overall this is a very great album. The production is perfect everything is loud and clear. The musicianship on this album and Relentless prove that Mortification will never be outdated. I personally feel sorry for anyone who passes this album up because it is not Scrolls part 2. In my humble opinion I feel that this varied album of mixed influences is Mortifications finest hour.
Reviewed by Dan.

Oh man I love this album.
This is an awsome album.
Its good to see that Steve took the band back towards death metal. (see people, he was gonna take it back to grind sooner or later)
This opens with "Boaconstrictor". It is a bit of an old style thrash song. Nice and fast.
the next song is "too much pain".
Oh wow! This is a really heavy song. Total death metal. Steve is doing death metal vocals through the whole song. Fans of the early stuf should be pleased with it.
the next song is "purist intent".
This song is about, how steve like different styles of metal. And he likes to experiment. He is standing up to the crittics. He does alot of growling on this song. But a few yelled vocals. The sound has death and thrash metal, but has a little groove to it.
"free as a bird " is an instrumental. (no its not a tribuit to skynard)
Next is the title track "brain cleaner"
this is a pretty good song. It also has an awsome message. The sound here is old style thrash and is a little slow. Now that is cool.
This next track on the album is titled "I'M not your commoditty" Oh my gosh, This has to be one of the best tracks on the album. It is heavy and angry! Steve is standing up for himself. It is sort of taking a stab at the crittics out there.
It is so dang heavy. Every time its on, I headbang to it. I even learned the words to it. because I love this song so much. shoot, I even learned how to play it on my guitar. My band madhouse might even end up doing a cover song for this track.
Next is "the flu virus" This track is good. Its styled like old style thrash.
Next is "livin' like a zombie" Great song. Sounds of post momentary affliction stand out here. This one part of the song thats all doomy, reminds me of "distarnish priest". Theres even some blast-beats. There are two parts on here that remind me of Progressive metal. How cool is it that Mortification, combinds so many influences of different types of metal? It is way cool.
"12 men" is a light force cover. for those of you who have not herd lightforce, well this is a little preview of what it sounds like.
Next is, "louder than the devil". this is death metal music, but steve is not doing full growls, he is doing a combination of yelling and growling.
cool track. has blast-beats on it.
the closing track is "E.D" which stands for evil dead. It is a short track and, is silly really. Has cowbells and whistles. when the track is over, it is toal silence for a few minutes. then the sound of a bomb comes.
All in all Mortification has recorded an AWSOME, album. I love it. the pictures inside the booklet of the band, well, I would say steve has not looked that good in a couple of years. and has an awsome hairstyle too!!!
I remember when I first got into mortification, two, years ago, when I was 13, now I'm 15, and I am glad to be into this band. Steve is like my childhood hero. and is my inspiration in writing music. keep up the good work mortification, and I can't wait to hear what the next record sounds like.

-your biggest fanatic,
Austin Spitler. U.S.A

This is an album of Mortification I for one sure can appreciate listening to. After a long time of trying out several styles Steve Rowe now seems to have found a beautiful mixture of those. The CD starts with some sounds from the depths of the earth whereupon with a bang the music breaks loose in all its intensity. And this remains throughout the complete CD, in 11 great sounding tracks. Such as the song Purest Intent in which Steve answers to the incomprehension of many men concerning how the belief in Jesus Christ can combine with the extreme metal. And although we had to wait from the third album (Post Momentary Affliction) till now, here again is a song, Free As A Bird, with bass-solo. That than smoothly blends into the song Brain Cleaner which tells us about how the Word of God can protect and clean us the attacks and filthiness which the world offers us. A nice detail to mention is that the song 12 Men has been recorded initially in 1986, by Lightforce. All in all a beautiful CD which holds a promise for the albums still to come. Steve Rowe and consorts are certainly on right path again with this. That's something this album certainly proves.

Death, thrash and groove metal at it's finest! This album is a lot more similar to the older Mortification-sound, more like the Blood World album with fast drumming, fast guitar-riffs and a great mix of yelling and growling. Another step in a more brutal direction, just like Relentless was, and the future sound of the band is said to be old school death/thrash a la their debut...