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Post Momentary Affliction

Intense Records | Digipack | Nuclear Blast

#	Title	Length
1	Allussions From The Valley Of Darkness	0:47
2	From The Valley Of Shadows	8:05
3	Human Condition	4:37
4	Distarnish Priest	7:24
5	Black Lion Of The Wind	0:28
6	Grind Planetarium	4:28
7	Pride Sanitarium	1:18
8	Overseer	9:18
9	This Momentary Affliction	0:52
10	Flight Of Victory (Bass Instrumental)	1:52
11	Impulsation	4:25
12	Liquid Assets	0:33
13	Vital Fluids	6:22
14	The Sea Of Forgetfulness	0:29
Total Time: 50:58

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In my opinion this is their best album to date, many people think that scrolls was better, but i disagree. The sound is more diverse with some thrash metal mixed in. You can also hear that the production is very good and maybe the best in all of their albums.

This is the best mortification´s work with excellents musics and power feelings

On "Post Momentary Affliction", Mortification begin their journey into progressive extreme metal. Quite possibly their finest release to date, this album mixes the band's death metal brutality with a more eclectic, prog metal influence. A lot of "industrial" type sampling going on as well as a newer hardcore shouting vocal style mixed in with the grind vocals. Certainly ahead of its time in the extreme metal scene.

In many peoples opinion this is their best album. Mortification went after Scrolls of the Megilloth back to Thrash and Speed metal. This album has more variety and style, but is less extreme. The vocals are different, Steve Rowe still has his grunt, but he does clean vocals now too. After this album Jayson Sherlock left the band, there are several theories about this, some say he didn't liked the music from Mortification anymore, some say he was too busy with Paramaecium, I don't know, and I don't care either. What I do know is that Mortification lost their strength, and their later albums were not as good as the first.
Review by JesusMetal (www.JesusMetal.com)

Mortification: Post Momentary Affliction
Released: 1993
Label: Nuclear Blast
Ahh the ever famous follow up to Mortification’s death metal classic Scrolls of the Megilloth. This album is still death metal, but not quite as heavy as Scrolls. This album introduced Steve Rowe’s “new” vocals and added a few industrial beeps and squeaks.
The album starts off with a cool intro of nothing but electronic beeps and squeaks then the sound of glass breaking. Then you hear The Valley of the Shadow begin. This is a nice long death/thrash song with some grinding going on. This leads into Human Condition, a nice death metal song where you first hear Steve Rowe’s new clean yelling vocals. They fit the song with Steve’s clean vocals and death vocals trading off. Then it leads us to Distarnished Priest (one of my favorite Mortification songs of all time). This is a great death metal song about being cleansed. Black Lion of the Wind is another weird electronic track with more beeps and squeaks. The album leads us to the all time Mort classic Grind Planetarium, featuring more of Steve’s clean vocals complimented by his deep death vocals. This song has some really melodic bass parts, its odd how Steve can create melodies while grinding on his bass so hard. Grind Planetarium leads into the instrumental reprise Pride Sanitarium. Then comes Overseer, which is the heaviest song on the album and sounds like it could have been on Scrolls. This Momentary Affliction is a short death/grind song with some incredible drumming by Jason Sherlock, a very brutal song indeed. This Momentary Affliction leads into Flight of Victory, which is Steve’s first recorded bass solo. Then comes Impulsation, this version is done a bit better than the Break the Curse version. This version has some deep death vocals on top of more of Steve’s yelling. His voice is extremely high on the yelling parts. Liquid Assets is another interlude but has a lot of water effects in it. Vital Fluids is another very fast death/grind song with nearly indecipherable vocals. Sea of Forgiveness is the outro which is nothing but water sounds.
The lyrics on this CD are all ministry oriented and bible based. This album is so classic because it was Mortification’s last true death metal album. It has sold so many copies over the years. It’s hard to believe it is already twelve years old. Soundmass.com has been re-releasing Mortification albums a lot lately, so hopefully there will be a Post Momentary Affliction re-release.
Reviewed by Dan.

Mixing the death metal with thrash metal and includig some industrial "filler-songs", this album proves Mortification as an innovative band. Not only does Steve Rowe continue to grunt out some fine growls, but he also mixes it with harsh yells, almost making it sound like the band has 2 vocalists. The lyrics are about mans sinful nature, and it's need of God.