News

A new year brings some changes, also for www.mortification.de. Maybe some of you may have noticed that the updates to this homepage have become less frequent. The reason is that I'm very busy at the moment and I don't see a near end. So I'm out of time adding stuff to this homepage.

But at least I think that this should change and that's why I need someone for the english part of mortification.de. I've developed an easy-to-use Content Managment System for this homepage so you don't have to bring any html or php knowledge. All you should have is passion for mortification and a good englisch knowlegde, I'd prefer someone with english as mother tongue. If you think you could do this job please introduce yourself to us through the contact page. As this is a fanpage it is not possible to pay anyone for this work.
If you want to get further informations just apply.

I've also taken down the shop on this page because it's just to much for me to do. I've still some items left but I can only sell those from private. If you are interested just contact me within January.

OCTOBER 2007

Hello all and welcome to the very late October update from myself in Morty-land. Everything is finalised and going ahead for our European Tour. We are really looking forward to playing once again for our supporters in Switzerland, Germany, Holland and Norway. We left Australia on October 30th and began the tour on November 2nd in Bern. Please see last month's update for all the details relating to the shows. We hope to see all our European fans come out once again and hopefully a few American fans at Nordic Fest.

We have the most KILLER merchandise for the tour put together for us by the mighty Nuclear Blast, so you know the quality is going to be top notch! At each show we will have full-color tour long-sleeves with sleeve prints, full-color t-shirts, jacket patches, buttons, stickers and posters. It will be a feast for all you collectors out there! There will be a very special offer for people who purchase both a long-sleeve and a t-shirt.

Please note that there will not be a November Update due to the tour commitments, but be sure to visit us here in December for the low-down on all the tour news. Thank you to our Aussie fans who came out and supported us at the Black Stump festival and also The Pelly Bar show down here in suburban Melbourne. A great time was had by all. A special thank you to Grave Forsaken, Scourged Flesh and Fearscape for a great show in Frankston. Also a huge thank you to Matt Brown from Fearscape for organising the Black Stump Metal/Hardcore night.

Check out all the following killer new Aussie metal releases: "Scent of Divine Blood" by Fearscape, "Horror and Sadness" by Grave Forsaken, "Bury the Lies" by Scourged Flesh, the Horde "Alive in Oslo" DVD and Jayson Sherlock's progressive rock project Soundscape. Great to see all the Aussie bands kicking hard! May we all unite in the cause for which we stand!

See you on tour or back here in December. Please note, I will not be answering emails from October 29th through to November 19th.

Metal blessings,

Steve Rowe.

SEPTEMBER 2007

G'day international Mortification friends. It's good to be back with a new update. Thank you to all our supporters who have purchased a copy of our new "Live Humanitarian" CD. Let us keep the metal underground alive by committing ourselves to NEVER steal metal from the internet. It is not worth the possibility of going to hell for stealing just from being greedy! Support the bands that support you.

Everything is firing on 12 cylinders for our Live Humanitarian Tour. Following is as much detail for the tour as I have right now:

1) Saturday Sept. 29: -Venue- Black Stump Festival, Appin, NSW, Australia. Mort on stage at 9pm (Metal/Hardcore Stage). www.blackstump.org.au

2) Friday Oct. 5: -Venue- The Pelly Bar, Frankston, Vic., Australia. See the poster on our website for details

3) Friday Nov. 2: Bern, Switzerland. -Venue- The Rock, Thun (20km from Bern). Mort on stage at 10pm. Support: Pesticide on stage at 9pm. Tickets from The Rock or contact Peter Gerber (mr.event@bluewin.ch) *Please be VERY early as this venue only has a 120 person capacity!*

4) Saturday Nov. 3: Zurich, Switzerland. -Venue- Faegtory Duernten, Edikerstrasse 16, 8635 Duernten. Doors 6:30pm. Mort on stage at 9pm + support. Ticket info from late September at www.mortification-live.ch.vu. Contact: mortification.live@gmail.com and tonikaelin@gmx.de

5) Sunday Nov. 4: Eschwege, Germany (near Kassel). -Venue- Jugendzentrum Eschwege (JUZ), Schlossmuehle 37269, Eschwege. Mort on stage at 9pm + support. Contact: dobat@gmx.de

6) Monday Nov. 5: Steve Rowe doing Spoken Word at YMCA House, Leuchtbergstr. 10 b, 37269 Eschwege. Contact: dobat@gmx.de

7) Wednesday Nov. 7: Bielefeld, Germany (near Dortmund). Contact: jonathan.schluessler@gmx.de and stormtroopersoflight@web.de

8) Thursday Nov. 8: Amersfoort, Holland. -Venue- Podium De Kelder, Eemlaan 1, 3812 ED Amersfoort. Mort on stage at 9pm + support. Contact: r.oudejans2@chello.nl

9) Friday Nov. 9: Nordic Fest, Oslo, Norway. -Venue- Sub Scene, Kirkegata 34, Oslo. Doors 7pm. Mort on stage at 9:30pm. www.nordicfest.no (also appearing on the same night is ONCE DEAD (ex-Vengeance Rising) from the USA. Any serious American metalhead needs to jump on a plane for this one! The ultimate thrash metal onslaught night of the year!)

10) Saturday Nov. 10: Rock Without Limits, Stuttgart, Germany. -Venue- 72116 Moessingen (South of Stuttgart). Mort on stage at 11pm. Also performing: Crushead (DE), October Light (HR), The Spirit That Guides Us (NL), D:Projekt (DE), Line Of Vision (DE), Antz Of Glory (DE). Special tickets can be purchased just to see Mort but these "Mortification Only" ticket holders will not be allowed into the venue until 10:30pm. Tickets: 10 Euro pre-sales, 12 Euro Doors, 8 Euro "Mortification Only Ticket". www.rockwithoutlimits.de. Contact: info@rockwithoutlimits.de, webmaster@musicfreaks.de and andreareusch73@aol.com

See you all on tour.

Blessings,

Steve Rowe 

Hello once again Mortification and Rowe Productions supporters. Yes! They are finally here! The new Mortification "Live Humanitarian" CD and the re-issue of Mortification's '91 self-titled album are both in the Soundmass.com store ready for you to order. We are very pleased with the production that we achieved on "Live Humanitarian" - very big and very REAL sounding. It was great to self-produce this release along with Mick Jelinic. Recorded live at the Imax Theatre in Perth, Australia, the venue was perfect for capturing a huge live sound. This is not an automatic festival crowd, either, but a true Mortification concert. Just us, on the level, with our true metal brothers and sisters. Special thanks goes to our awesome support network in Perth, especially Vaughan Gregory from Grave Forsaken, Steve Mullen and Dave Kilgallon from Scourged Flesh (make sure you pick up the debut Grave Forsaken and Scourged Flesh CDs from the store if you have not already done so).

The re-issue of '91s self-titled album is a ripper too! Remastered, it is a special limited edition digipak release (1000 copies) with killer artwork. The front cover is faithfully restored from the original "gory" artwork by Jayson Sherlock. So do yourself and your neighbours a favour and jump into the Soundmass.com store to pick up "Live Humanitarian" and the self-titled by Mortification (pictured in the June update below), as well as both the Grave Forsaken and Scourged Flesh CDs (at new special prices). Special thanks to all the people who pre-ordered - your orders are on their way to your hungry ears. The "Live Humanitarian" DVD is not too far away either - stay tuned for further news in coming updates.

On a lower note, the US section of our proposed Tour has been postponed at this stage due to time restraints in securing Performance Visas. We hope to be back in the US as soon as it becomes feasable. All good things come to those that wait. The European Tour is 100% going ahead with these 7 shows:

Nov 2 - Bern, Switzerland
Nov 3 - Zurich, Switzerland
Nov 4 - Eschwege, Germany
Nov 7 - Bielefeld, Germany
Nov 8 - Amsterdam, Holland
Nov 9 - Oslo, Norway
Nov 10 - Stuttgart, Germany

We hope to catch up with all our European fans in these countries and from beyond. Keep watching this space for venue and time details.

Blessings,

Steve Rowe.

Hello for the second time this month. I am just interupting your day to let you know that our new live Mortification CD "Live Humanitarian" (Pictured) is now avialable for pre-order from the Soundmass.com store. Be the first in your city to own this brutal new release! Pre-order copies will be shipped around July 6th and will be given first priority. This CD will satisfy your hungry ears until the DVD of the same show is released late '07/early '08. While you're at it, you can also pre-order the Soundmass re-issue of Mortification's self-titled '91 album, presented as a limited edition (1000x) digipak.

"Live Humanitarian" features songs not on "Live Planetarium". The classic era was well covered on "Live Planetarium". When playing live on the US and European Tour later this year we will be bringing more of the classic era than is featured on the "Live Humanitarian" CD and DVD. Here is the the full concert track list:

1- Erasing The Goblin
2- I'm Not Your Commodity
3- Hammer Of God
4- Purest Intent
5- Medley: Lymphosarcoma/The Destroyer Beholds/Distarnish Priest/Love Song
6- Priests Of The Underground
7- The Dead Shall Be Judged
8- Spoken Word Part 1
9- Humanitarian
10- Spoken Word Part 2
11- Dead Man Walking
12- Standing At The Door Of Death
13- Spoken Word Part 3
14- Escape The Blasphemous Tabernacle
15- Spoken Word Part 4
16- Chapel Of Hope

Please pray for us as we prepare for the US and European Tours in October/November. We need to secure P1 Performance Visas for the US. These are very difficult to obtain. Thankfully my US attorney who got my P1 Visas in the 90's has taken on the challenge to secure these for me once again. The cost for this type of visa is huge and there is a lot of legal ground for us to cover in the next 3 months.

People interested in booking shows for Mortification in the US can contact Doug Kirchner at End Of Silence Booking Agency:

endofsilence1@yahoo.com
www.myspace.com/endofsilence
www.endofsilence.org
216 288 6773

On a sad note, original Lightforce guitarist Chris Miller, who was in Lightforce in '86 through early '87, died suddenly of a heart attack 3 weeks ago. Chris played on the '86 Lightforce demos. I saw Chris just a month ago at a Christian rock concert. He was full of smiles as always, talking about Jesus, church and Christian rock. We were at a Barlow Girl concert (Barlow Girl are a US all-female, all-sisters true Jesus rock band). Chris was really into evangelistic Jesus rock and we both shared a passion for souls.

Chris, like myself, was writing Christian literature and recording Christian music. Chris and I grew up in the same neighbourhood and his sudden promotion to glory happened on a road I walked and ran up almost daily in my first 24 years of life. Chris was the youngest and healthiest looking 41 year old you could ever meet. None of us know our time. Here is me still alive after being given 2 hours to live exactly 10 years ago. God's work for Chris was done and now he is home forever. May we all stop and consider where our heart is with God.

See you on Tour and in Heaven.

Blessings,

Steve Rowe.

Hello once again Mortification and Rowe Productions supporters. I have some great news for you all this month. Coming next month is the "Live Humanitarian" CD release. The DVD will be released early next year, delayed by upcoming tour costs and the fact that the live 7 cameras film edit is still in progress. I have bought all the lattest Christian metal and hard rock DVDs and I know that when this DVD is finished it will be a world class release. This is something that is difficult to achieve in today's music environment. That said, I decided to put the CD out now so that we have them available for your hungry ears and to actually raise money for the October/November tour. They will be available in early July from the Soundmass.com store, along with the re-issue of the self-titled Mortification CD.

Everything is going ahead as planned for the US Tour in October and European Tour in November. Please see dates below. Please pray for my continued health. My biggest concern right now is for my kidney function and eyesight. From now on I will be wearing glasses on stage, but that is OK because it is all the better to see you with! Please also pray for continued unity in the band, tour preparations and successful visa applications.

Proposed US Tour dates:

OCTOBER

12th- L.A., CA
13th- San Diego, CA
14th- Las Vega, NV
15th- Phoenix, AZ
16th- New Mexico
17th- Texas
18th- Texas
19th- Oklahoma
20th- Kansas
21st- Missouri
22nd- Tennessee
23rd- North Carolina
24th- Virginia
25th- Maryland
26th- Cleveland, OH
27th- Indiana
28th- Chicago, IL

Proposed European Tour dates:

NOVEMBER

2nd- Bern, Switzerland
3rd- Zurich, Switzerland
7th- Bielefeld (near Dortmund), Germany
8th- Holland
9th- Oslo, Norway (Nordic Fest)
10th- Stuttgart, Germany

See you at a show near you!

Blessings,

Steve Rowe.

Hello once again Mortification and Rowe Productions supporters. With the upcoming release of our new live DVD/CD package "Live Humanitarian", we have decided to offer the "Live Planetarium" re-issue DVD at half price on the Soundmass.com store. This is a special promotion to keep your eager ears and eyes hungry for the the unleashing of "Live Humanitarian".

As it stands today, it looks quite definite that we will tour in the US and Europe in October and November. However, nothing is 100% just yet. Keep watching our website each month for updates. Tour costs may push the release of "Live Humanitarian" into early next year. This is why we are presenting the special half price offer on the re-issue DVD. For those who supported "Live Planetarium" at full price, we thank you. This may be your chance to pick up a second copy to give away as a gift.

"The Majestic Infiltration of Order" t-shirt is now available from the Soundmass.com store. Be quick to grab one because we have a very limited pressing at this stage. I have had a number of e-mails from people eager to snatch up one or two. At this point, the re-issues of the '91 classic shirts will stop until we get into next year because, again, we have potential tour costs in mind. So please support us the best way you can by purchasing a t-shirt and half price "Live Planetarium" DVD today.

The Soundmass digipak re-issue of the '91 self-titled album has now been put forward to early July. However, their re-print of the classic "gory" cover Mortification t-shirt is now available at the Soundmass.com store.

Also, check out the Rowe Productions website in the coming week for our updated Photo Gallery, with pictures from the "Live Humanitarian" recording late last year.

Metal blessings,

Steve Rowe.

Hello once again Mortification and Rowe Productions supporters. It has been a good past month as the band is back together rehearsing again. We may even start working on some new material soon, but don't expect a new studio album until at least late next year. We are of course looking forward to the "Live Humanitarian" DVD/CD release later in the year.

I have been busy organising the "Live Humanitarian European Tour" for later in the year. Hopefully this will happen for us. I am in communication with promoters, merchandise people, a flight arrangement company, etc. I will give you more information as it comes to hand but - yes - the tour will be the current solid line-up of Mick Jelinic, Damien Percy and myself.

Please pick up "Erasing The Goblin", "The Destroyer Beholds" and "The Lake Of Fire" t-shirts from the Soundmass.com store. "The Majestic Infiltration Of Order" re-issue t-shirt will be available next month.

For those who pray for us, please pray that the Euro tour comes together well. There are huge costs and arrangements involved. Continue to pray for my health, especially my fading eyesight, spiritual unity in the band to keep getting stronger, and wisdom concerning all the difficult financial stuff.

Blessings,

Steve Rowe.

Hello Rowe Productions and Mortification supporters. I am sorry that I did not post a January update. It is summer-time over here and, besides being on vacation with my wife and son, I have been busy with Mick Jelinic mixing the audio for our upcoming DVD release "Live Humanitarian". Yes, you heard it here first! "Live Humanitarian" will be out in the second half of this year. The audio sounds MASSIVE! It was recorded live at the delux but intimate Imax Theatre in Perth, Australia, late last year. It is a Mortification 17 Year Celebration featuring 24 track digital live recording and a 7 digital camera shoot. It will be coming out in Dolby 5.1 surround sound. This is the first full-length Mortification show ever to be done this well. "Live Planetarium" (1993) had only half the show on video (now re-issued and available on DVD) and the full show was only on the CD. We may be doing "Live Humanitarian" on CD also. We are very excited about this release so stay posted. I will send the audio and bonus material over to Perth this week for the visual cut to be completed in the coming months. This is a huge undertaking but with 7 cameras and surround sound, it will surpass any past official Mortification releases.

The self-titled album re-issue will be available from Soundmass.com soon. "The Lake Of Fire For The Dying Soul" re-issue shirt from 1991 is available now from the Soundmass.com store. Thank you to the keen supporters who bought "The Destroyer Beholds" shirt. I am planning to re-issue all of them if the interest stays strong.

I pray that you are all very healthy and praise God that this past Saturday was my 10th Anniversary out of bone marrow transplant for leukaemia. 10 years and one month ago I was given a maximum of 10 years to live. I still struggle with health issue but we plan to do some more touring this year if all things go to plan. So it is great to be alive and still working with the music and message that is so strong in my heart. I will be around for many years to come making metal for Jesus. It will be great to arrive at 25 Years Mortification in 2015.

Metal Blessings,

Steve Rowe.

P.S. I have just been given a pile of rare vinyl Christian metal and rock releases from the 70's and 80's. An old friend of mine involved in Christian missions gave them to me to sell as a fund raiser. He and his family are going to Thailand this year for a 9 month missions trip. Through his church, he also supports much needed Christian missionary work. All money coming to Rowe Productions from the sale of these records will be going directly to Christian missions work. Included in the records, which are all mint condition, is the Barren Cross "Rock For The King" original Star Song pressing, the very first 1976 Jerusalem album (extremly rare), Resurrection Band "Rainbow's End" (with a magnificent double cover) and a gatefold of Ressurection Band "Mommy Don't Love Daddy Anymore", plus many more. These will be in the Soundmass.com store within the next few days. I already own all these releases from back in the day so can offer them to you guys. Prices are high but not over the top considering how great these records are and the cause for which the money is being raised. Thanks again for your support.

Welcome to Rowe Productions Christmas Update. Sorry it is so late in the month. I have been somewhat unwell for the past 3 weeks. Anyway, still lots of Jesus Metal action going on here. In support of the Soundmass re-issue of the self-titled album, I will be re-issuing all, or at least most of, the classic '91 t-shirts, one at a time, over the coming months. First design off the press is the classic "The Destroyer Beholds" design (pictured). Please note that these are extremly limited re-issues, so be sure to get in quickly. Keep watching this space each month for the next available design. They will be printed 1 to 2 months apart depending on demand. Many of you missed getting these classic designs because of the dodgy US supplier that ripped many people off at the time. This included myself as I had to send out different shirts when these classics were not supplied. So now is the time to forget all that bad stuff and start wearing these brutal designs today!

Congratulations to Paramaecium and Horde on their successful trip to Norway for Nordic Fest. 2007 looks like a stellar year for Aussie Christian Metal. Mortification have a big surprise announcement coming soon which will make many of you very excited. So stay tuned, stay Jesus Metal and go to the store and purchase yourself a "The Destroyer Beholds" t-shirt!

Blessings, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Steve Rowe.

An interesting development just up and running is the availability of all Nuclear Blast's Mort releases on iTunes. You can buy individual songs or complete albums. "Scrolls Of The Megilloth" and "Post Momentary Affliction" are sold together as a double-pak, so if you just want the "Scrolls..." release you can purchase the re-issue right here. 60% of the money from the iTunes sales comes back to the band, so please stop stealing Mort albums from the net and start buying them legally. This is much needed in our mission to continue presenting Jesus Metal to the world.

The reprinted Scrolls Of The Megilloth shirt is now available through Soundmass.com.

See you here same bat time, same bat channel next month. Holy Metal, Batman these guys really do shout out about Jesus!

Blessings,

Steve Rowe.

The new official Mortification Forum can now be found at unDark.net. Firestream.net will not have any band forums anymore, so they can concentrate on the general music forums and all the other great things they have there. Many of the band-forums which had been at firestream.net can now be found at unDark.net. So you should all go there, signup and post in the Mortification Forum.

For several reasons out of our hands, the proposed Central, Latin and South America tour is not going ahead as planned for this November but has been postponed for now. We hope our supporters down in this great part of the world are understanding that we make every effort to get over to your countries to play.

Some good news: New "Scrolls of the Megilloth" t-shirts should be available before the end of the month.

Steve Rowe

Happy 35th Birthday to my awesome wife Kate for today, Sept. 1. I need to write this because Kate is the woman behind the crazy guy that is me and keeps me sane and supports all the things that interest you the Mort supporters. Without Kate I would not be here.

I can now announce that we will tour in Central, Latin and South America in November - 90% definite at this stage. This tour is being organised by our managment and we only have 16 days, so if we miss your area I am sorry. This is the best and most that we can do right now.

Supposed countries and dates:

Sat. Nov. 18 - Mexico City, Mexico
Sun. Nov. 19 - Guatemala City, Guatemala
Wed. Nov. 22 - Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Sat. Nov. 25 - Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sun. Nov. 26 - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Fri. Dec. 1 - Bogota, Colombia
Sat. Dec. 2 - San Jose, Costa Rica

All shows are with Narnia, Rob Rock and Exousia.

I am busy training for The National Transplant Games (Sept. 22) in seated throwing. I am, of course, partial paraplegic. Thus, I had better get back to the gym and my discus and shot put training. All this training is making me play bass like an animal! But, then again, I am not a drummer, so not really Animal!!!

Blessings,

Steve Rowe.

firestream.net, the beliver's heavy music refuge, the biggest internet forum for hard christian music got totally defaced by a hacker group. The hackers used a vulnerability in a third party module to completely destroy the site and database. So also the online stored backups got destroyed too.

Also all the content of the official Mortification forum which was part of firestream.net, isn't there anymore.
As a consequense of this firestream.net will no longer host band forums, so there won't be a new mortification forum at firestream.net.

I really hope we all will soon find another great place for all Mortification fans to share their thoughts about the most recent things. You'll at least keep updated about more informations in the next days.

Thanks to all the punters who came out to see the Erasing... album launch. It was a real positive event in many, many ways. Thanks especially to Jason Parkin and his mates who came all the way from Wagga. Good to see many of the old faces back at a Mort show; super cool that Jayson Sherlock and Mick Carlisle rocked up. Good to see part of the Mort family still in the trenchs with me.

As you can see, the MCM Music version of Erasing The Goblin is now available from the store, along with full-color Erasing... t-shirts and the DVD re-issue of Live Planetarium. One of the best things about this DVD re-issue is the extensive bonus footage, including some crazy scenes during the recording of Post Momentary Affliction (look out for a pre-Mort Keith Bannister); also footage from Cornerstone '93, the band with Phil on drums in Germany in '94 and myself generally being crazy at my old rental home. Big kids never grow up!

We will perform 2 shows in Perth, Western Australia, this month (Aug. 11th and 12th). Check local guides for details. Thanks to Vaughan Gregory for promoting the Perth shows for us. Check out Vaughan's band Grave Forsaken - they are a great new Christian death metal band.

On a not so happy note, please, please do not buy Mortification or Lightforce bootlegs. This type of theft is an ugly, heartless practice, especially considering that people are already making money from liquidated Mort albums from the fallen Diamante Music scam. The situation there is so immoral I cannot even begin to tell. It's not the fault of people who benefited from getting that stock cheaply, but it almost killed me financially. You, our true supporters, need to realise that bootlegging and downloading of our music is KILLLING this ministry. We cannot stay financially afloat with this criminal activity still happening in "Christian" music. We all have families to care for and bills to pay. God cannot stand in the way of man's greed, evil practice and immoral choices. Although God still provides for us by His miracle provision, after what my family and I have been through the past 10 years, this problem is becoming increasingly stressful. If you want Mort to survive, please help stop this criminal activity by purchasing official releases.

In All Good Faith,

Steve Rowe.

The "Erasing the Goblin" limited edition auction is now finshed and #77 was won by Angus Honigold from South Africa. The other 3 winners were Steve Clanke (USA - #1), Toni Kaelin (Swizerland - #7) and Matt Skipworth (Australia - #500). Great to see such awesome international support from around the globe. THANK YOU all Mort fans who bought a limited edition copy, but special thanks to all who took part in the auction.

Last months update will give you the details for the official Erasing The Goblin album launch right here in Melbourne, Sat. July 29th. Supports are Medusa and Hammaraxx.

We are also playing 2 shows in Perth, Western Australia, in August:

Friday August 11th @ IMAX Theatre
Lake Street, Northbridge
7pm - 9:30pm
All Ages
$5 @ the door
Support: Grave Forsaken

Saturday August 12th @ Charles Hotel
Charles Street, North Perth
7:30pm - midnight
Over 18's
$12 @ the door
Supports: Black Steel and Voyager

This month sees the official release of the MCM version of "Erasing the Goblin": early July for the US @ Cornerstone Festival (through RadRockers), July 28th for the rest of the world. Copies will be available from the Soundmass.com website August 1st. The modified front cover and new layout look awesome! Also set for release August 1st is a Special DVD Edition of "Live Planetarium", with extensive bonus footage. We will also have "Erasing..." t-shirts and girls tops available from the same date. It would be great if you could support the band by purchasing these items from this site through the Soundmass.com store.

There is one favour I would like to ask of all Mortification supporters. As you are well aware, many sites are making our music free to download. This is stealing and I please ask that you all buy legitimate copies of our music. We are looking at providing our music to buy online but need to check posibilities with credible people. Please note that the site mp3sugar.com is a total scam - they are selling our music! Please could HUNDREDS of you email them and ask them to stop destroying music and demand that they stop making illegal money from Mortification. We want our CDs off their site! Please remind them that what they are doing makes them international criminals.

We hope to see all you Aussies at the first shows of this tour. Unfortunatly, due to Damien's work commitments, we cannot play Black Stump. We plan to be there next year. Touring plans include Central, Latin and South America in November, an all ages show in Melbourne in January and AGMF in Toowoomba, Australia, at Easter next year.

Thanks for your support and blessings,

Steve Rowe.

Saturday July 29th @ Musicland, 1359 Sydney Rd., Fawkner, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (big black building between a car dealer and Weather World)
Mortification on stage @ 10:30pm
Supported by Medusa (on stage @ 9:15pm)
Following Mortification is HammarAxx (on stage @ 12:15am)
Tickets $12 @ the door
Metal DJ from 8pm (this is a licenced venue).

Yes, the tour has finally begun. Following the album launch will be 2 shows in Perth, Australia, August 11th and 12th. Check local guides for details.

The auction is now finished and the winning bids are as follows:

#1 of 500 - Steve Clankie - $250USD
#7 of 500 - Toni Kaelin - $250USD
#500 of 500 - Matt Skipworth - $201USD

The top bidder for #77 is unable to pay at this time due to the early finish of the auction, so any bids will be accepted at this point. Please send your bids today. This is the last remaining limited edition number.

Thank you all for your incredible support of the limited edition of "Erasing...", especially to the auction winners. Your huge effort has helped us pay some big costs relating to the release of the album. The MCM Music version will be available next month.

Metal Blessings,

Steve Rowe.

Firstly, a huge thankyou to all the keen supporters who helped us sell 496 limited edition copies of the Rowe Productions version of "Erasing the goblin" in under 2 months! This was a tremendous response. The 4 remaining CDs are still on auction but you now only have 14 days to improve on the following bids:

$250 USD - #1 of 500 - Steve Clanke
$250 USD - #7 of 500 - Toni Kaelin
$175 USD - #77 of 500 - Chris McGraw
$201 USD - #500 of 500 - Matt Skipworth

Winners announced July 1st.

The MCM Music release of "Erasing the goblin" is set for mid-July and is looking awesome. The layout is very different to that of the Rowe Productions release. It has a modified cover that is going to make a killer t-shirt! Should have those available by August.

We look set to tour in Central, Latin and South America in November. Watch this space for details.

All God's Blessings to you our much loved supporters.

Metal for Jesus!

Steve Rowe.

Hello Mortification supporters. I firstly want to thank all the people who have bought the limited edition of "Erasing The Goblin" through Rowe Productions/Soundmass. The 500 numbered and signed CDs are almost gone in just 2 months. Awesome!

What this means is that there are less than 50 copies remaining of this rare issue of the album. Of course, it is coming out mid-year with a different cover and layout but your chance to secure the Rowe release is almost up if you have not already purchased it. I expect the last few to sell within the next month.

Once again, thank you to all the people involved in the auction. This will help tremendously with recouping the costs of this release. Also, thank you to the various magazines and online forums that have given "Erasing The Goblin" such a positive review.

Our auction leaders are:

#1 of 500 - Steve Clanke - $250USD
#7 of 500 - Toni Kaelin - $250USD
#77 of 500 - Chris McGraw - $175USD
#500 of 500 - Matt Skipworth - $201USD

We will be bringing the auction to a close early due to the fact that the limited edition is selling through so quickly, so now is the time to bid. Winners will be annouced July 1st.

Prayers and Blessings,

Steve Rowe.

Yes! Finally it is in the Soundmass store. Come visit www.roweproductions.com and you will see that "Erasing the Goblin" is now available to purchase. We are chuffed about how it has turned out in every way; looks and sounds brutal.

The 500 Limited Edition numbered and signed CDs on Rowe Productions are selling fast. We moved well over 300 just in pre-sales. Please remember that you can only purchase this version of the CD directly from Soundmass.com, at a very fair retail price (The limited Version will not be available in the www.mortification.de shop). Orders are coming in quickly now that "Erasing the Goblin" is available so be smart and order your copy of this rare item today. MCM Music in Germany will be releasing "Erasing the Goblin" in July with a different cover and layout.

Bids for CDs numbered 1/500, 7/500, 77/500 and 500/500 are rolling in. Thank you to all who are participating in these auctions. We have decided to put the bid prices in USD because people worldwide better understand the value of the American dollar. So, if sending bids, please send them in USD. Here are our current leaders:

1/500 - $250 USD (Steve Clanke)
7/500 - $200 USD (Chris McGraw)
77/500 - $175 USD (Chris McGraw)
500/500 - $200 USD (Chris McGraw)

There are many people who have submitted bids close to these but have just fell short, so keep on bidding and a piece of metal history could be yours.

Blessings,

Steve Rowe.

There are three new very interesting interviews in the biography section:

• Firestream Member Interview
• Interview from Heaven's Metal #62
• Interview from soundmass.com

Thank you to all the Mortification supporters for your amazing response to the Limited Edition Rowe Productions release of "Erasing the Goblin". I will have the CDs at the Soundmass.com store in the next 10 days. The pre-orders have been huge and already we have sold half the 500 copies. People will recieve all pre-ordered CDs by mid April, all numbered and signed by the whole band.

If you wish to secure a copy of this rare release waiting much longer will probably be too late. Visit Rowe Productions today and pre-order your copy of this limited collectors item at standard CD price. Don't forget to check out the sample of "Razorback" on the Soundmass.com Store when ordering.

Thanks also for the huge response to the auction. The current leading bids are as follows (all offers have been converted to Australian dollars):

Number "1 of 500" - $342 Australian (Steve Clankie, USA)
Number "7 of 500" - $200 Australian (Toni Kaelin, Swizerland)
Number "500 of 500" - $156 Australian (Steve Clankie, USA)

There are no bids for "77 of 500" as yet, but we have recieved bids from all over the world for the other numbers, so maybe interested people could make a bid on 77. Steve Clankie from the US is up to grab 2 out of the 4 so keep the bids coming.

Thanks and blessings,

Steve Rowe.

Since today there is a new online-shop where you can get mortification merchandise. At the moment you can find CD's, DVD's and a Video there. But in the future there are going to be listed more and more items. I also hope to get the opportunity to catch some rare for offering them to you.

Keep in mind that this is a new & used shop... so you can get all available new items and also some used. For the used items a certain amount is directly given to Steve Rowe, so there is not the problem that you do not support Mortification if you buy a used item.

Have fun while shopping.

Firstly, thank you for your patience in waiting for news on what I see as a landmark release for us, "Erasing the Goblin". We have had to hold the album for some weeks as we have finally secured a release through MCM Music in Germany who will now also be managing us. MCM is now releasing CDs in both the Christian and mainstrem markets with Narnia, Veni Domine and now Mortification.

Thanks to the understanding of MCM Music we will be releasing a Limited Edition of "Erasing the Goblin" with the cover art pictured here. MCM Music will release "Erasing the Goblin" mid-year with different cover art and CD layout.

The Limited Edition of 500 numbered copies on Rowe Productions will be available by the end of the month. Pre-orders available now! Please note the following important information: the Rowe Productions release is ONLY available retail through the Soundmass.com store. You will not be able to purchase this limited version from any other store or site in the world. It is strictly a Rowe Productions retail-only product and there will only be 500 of this version available. Each copy will be individually numbered "1 of 500", etc. and signed by each member of the band, so place your pre-orders early to secure your copy of what will become a rare item. This release has been allowed by MCM Music to help us recoup the costs of putting the album together.

There is also a special auction for "1 of 500", "7 of 500", "77 of 500" and "500 of 500", so if you wish to bid for one of these numbers, send your details to info@roweproductions.com along with your bid price. We will announce each month who is ahead in the bids for these 4 CDs and the highest bids will recieve the item after the November 2006 tally in time for Christmas.

Thank you for your ongoing prayers and financial support of this ministry. We ask that people please purchase their own copies of the CDs and please support both the Rowe Productions and MCM Music releases. Help get the important message of the Gospel back out in the mainstream stores once again later this year.

Please note that both versions will have 10 songs. The Rowe Productions version will feature the studio remake of "Dead Man Walking" and the MCM Music version will feature new song "Servants of the Supreme Message" (which will not be on the Rowe Productions release) - more reason to support both releases.

Blessings

Steve Rowe

Today the titles of the new album of Mortification got out. They were revealed by Steve Rowe in an interview with Jason Parkin.

The tracklist is:

1. Razorback
2. Erasing the Goblin
3. The Dead shall be Judged
4. Escape the Blasphemous Tabernacle
5. Your Time
6. Forged in Stone
7. Way Truth Life
8. Humanitarian
9. Short Circuit
10. Servants of the Supreme Message
11. Dead Man Walking

The last title should ring a bell to the most of you, because this song can also be found on the live registration '10 Years Live Not Dead'

Following up on last month's news, thankfully the temperatures here have dropped. Although the bushfires came very close to Mick Jelinic's property, they did not rage through his immediate area. So all is well at Mick's place; family, house, studio and album are all intact.

"Erasing The Goblin" has been mixed and mastered. Currently work is underway on the artwork layout. Small delays have put the album back a little but we are pushing hard for a late March release. "Erasing The Goblin" is a monster Death Metal oriented album, one that will be enjoyed by fans both old and new.

Thank you for your prayers and support.

This week - January 23rd to 27th - Mick Jelinic was sheduled to finalise the mix on "Erasing The Goblin" and complete the final master at 454 Studio. On Saturday and Sunday we had two of the hottest days I can remember. We are in the middle of summer here. Bushfires are raging through our state and on Sunday Mick and his wife had to evacuate their kids to a safe nearby township. Mick and his wife stayed at their new country home containing 454 Studio spreading water around as they watched the glow of the fires heading their way. They were on high alert to evacuate also.

I rang Mick from Melbourne at 5:00pm Sunday 22nd when I heard his area was being threatened. We agreed on the phone that the devil was not going to burn his house or our new album. He had copies of mixes in the car ready to leave if he had to. I could not believe the heat on Sunday. 46 degrees C, which must be about 115 F I think.

We have had 2 cooler days and the fires are moving away into the bush. More heat is expected later in the week so Mick and his family are still on alert. "Erasing The Goblin" will thus now be delayed until March for release. Please keep us in your prayers. The devil has tried everything to stop this release.

There will be more updates soon.

Hello Mortification supporters. We pray you have a blessed Christmas this 2005 and a world changing 2006. 2005 has been a difficult and long year for the band, spending the first half of the year preparing for the recording of "Erasing The goblin" and then parting ways with Mike Forsberg in June. Thank you to Mike for his great time with the group.

Steve and Mick had to regroup and basically start again with drummer Damien Percy. In the end, spending the whole year putting the album together has helped the boys redo the songs and even write some better ones! "Erasing The Goblin" should be available in late February. Expect a Death Metal oriented release with some brutal riffing. There are Thrash and Power Metal influences but "Erasing The Goblin" is a heavier and stronger release than anything in the past ten years.

Thank you to all the fans involved in the Mortification fundraiser to help with the recordings of "Erasing The Goblin". Your support has made this project possible. This are the true fans that help like this that keeps the life saving blood in the Mortification veins.

The classic "Grind Planets" video has been re-issued on DVD by Soundmass and is now available. "Grind Planets" contains heaps of professional clips from the classic '91/'92 Self-Titled and "Scrolls Of The Megilloth" era, lots of on tour craziness and a bonus '92 live club show from the infamous Arthouse Hotel here in Melbourne, Australia.

Please keep Mortification in your prayers concerning future shows and Steve's ongoing health concerns. The band are looking strongly at new mainstream deals in Europe and the US before any tour plans are made.

Grind Planets is available for preordering at www.soundmass.com and will be on stock mid-November. At the same time you can also see the cover of this DVD for the first time. The DVD is in the region-free NTSC and so it should be playalbe on pretty much DVD player

Steve Rowe about this video: "In 1991 and 1992, Mortification was creating ground-breaking music. Following a suddenly acquired interest in British grindcore and death metal, my original goal, to create an extreme version of my 80s band, Lightforce, became a reality. We were creating what was at the time, the most extreme Christian metal ever recorded, with Scrolls of the Megilloth as the band's definitive album. This DVD contains 8 professionally produced film clips of songs featured on Scrolls of the Megilloth and the self-titled Mortification album. Ideas musically and visually ahead of their time are brought to life by film maker Neil Johnson. The disc also contains a segment on the recording of Scrolls of the Megilloth, some crazy on-tour footage and a bonus full live show of the band at The Arthouse in Melbourne, Australia, in 1992."

Steve, Mick and Damien are hard at work on "Erasing The Goblin". A good combo of fast and slow Death Metal with a few surprises as usual. The album is certainly developing into a monster with very Jesus centered lyrics as usual. It will be a good album to give to your non-Christian friends. If you are not a Christian then "Erasing The Goblin" will be a good challenge for you to consider lyrically.

Thanks to Soundmass the classic "Grind Planets" video will be re-issued on DVD later this month. Featuring 8 professional film clips from the 91-92 era, plus on tour craziness, the making of "Scrolls Of The Megilloth", plus a bonus full live concert from '92.

There are two new section's... The one is "Tablatures" where you can find lots of tablatures for guitar, bass and drums and the other section just includes a Mission Statement at the moment but it is supposed to grow in the next time. The name of this section is "Faith".

www.mortification.de got a Download section today where you can find one mp3-sample for each album, two full-mp3's which cannot be find on any album, a few WinAmp-skins (maybe you'll know these from the old mortification.de site) and several wallpapers (which had been on the gallery page before).

Furthermore there are 5 new Compilations and a new Mortification video (which is very rare [that's why it's without a cover-scan]) in the discography.

Steve, Mick and Damien are still hard at work in pre-production for "Erasing The Goblin". The songs are getting better so it is a very interesting process. Already 2 or 3 songs have been replaced or rewritten from the original list and Damien is bringing some amazing drumming to the songs which has inspired some great new ideas.

The release date is still on track for early 2006.

A lot of changes concerning the discography has been made recently and are all uploaded now. Besides of the already before existing Mortification discography there are now three new discography pages which contain all Mortification videos, all Lightforce releases and a lot of Mortification compilation. The Mortification compilation discography is not complete so if you know any release which is not listed, inform us. A lot of the informations are just on www.mortification.de available and maybe you will wonder about some of the listed releases because some of them are very rare and unknown.

Also you can find another nice feature now. Everyone is able to contribute a review to any of the available releases. So please start contributing some review's, its useful for everyone. Additional to the possibility to write review's there is also the possibility to rate on existing review's.

Another Thing: The cover descriptions are now complete which means that you can find a cover description for EVERY albumcover. Some of the cover's have never been explained before anywhere.

And last but not least there is an interesting overview page where you can find information's for every album on one page.

We hope you will enjoy all these new function's and feature's and please let us now what we can still improove.

Steve Rowe and Mick Jelinic are hard at work in pre-production for the next Mortification album "Erasing The Goblin". The original title "Impaling The Goblin" has been dropped due to the fact that this term is considered rude and offensive in Eastern Europe. The boys thank a caring fan who informed them of this.

Drummer Damien Percy is working with Steve and Mick on the album and the following tour. Due to the revolving door of members coming through the group, Steve will discuss with Damien the possibility of a permanent position in Mortification in early 2007. Until then, Damien is keen to be working with the band and he is looking forward to contributing to a killer new album and tour.

In 2006, Mortification plans to play the Australian Gospel Music Festival in Toowoomba (Australia) at Easter, Melbourne (Australia) in May, Adelaide (Australia) in June, South America in August and the Black Stump Festival near Sydney (Australia) in October. "Erasing The Goblin" will be available early next year.

Steve plans to re-issue the "Grind Planets", "Live Planetarium" and "EnVidion" videos on DVD within the next 18 months, along with a repressing of the "Conquer The World" DVD. Other special re-issues are also on the drawing board, so keep watching this page for updates.

Mike Forsberg the current drummer of Mortification has left the band. Mike will be pursuing other projects and Steve and Mick Jelinic wish Mike all the best in his future endeavours. So the recordings for the next Mortification album which name is "Impaling The Goblin" will be delayed.

Steve Rowe and Mick Jelinic will continue working on new material for "Impaling The Goblin". Once the album does get recorded you can expect a strong release with the best of a variety of material developed over a two year period.

Mike Forsberg will make a project with ex-Mortification guitarist Mick Carlisle who left Mortification already in 1994. Mick and Mike already played together previously in Cybergrind.

Lincoln Bowen (ex-Mortification guitarist) and Phil Gibson (ex-Mortification drummer) are in the band "Callous" who recently changed their name to "Three Times Fire". "Three Times Fire" will feature on the upcoming Soundmass compilation "Oz Mosh 2005", which will also feature a Mortification song from the "Brain Cleaner" album.

This site has since today a few new elements.

1. The first big alteration is that this page is now also available in Dutch. So this is the third language and we are looking forward to add more languages.
2. The second big alteration is on the discography page. There you'll find now a CD-Review Page for each album with different informations to the album, a CD review (there will be coming some more detailed reviews soon) and you can also vote for every album there.
3. Besides these both big alterations there are a lot of smaller alterations. For example: All album covers are now available in a much better quality.

Soundmass.com has just released a pressing of the Lightforce - "1986 to 1989" CD.

This album contains the Lightforce recordings "Mystical Thieves" and "Battlezone", plus 2 songs from the 1986 Lightforce demo. This is where it all began for Steve and Mortification. The first (Rowe Productions) pressing of this CD only saw 500 copies made available, which sold quickly, so grab this classic piece of Christian metal history from the Soundmass.com store now.

Mortification is busy in the rehearsal room putting together material for their 13th studio release. The band is working on late 80's, early 90's sounding Death/Thrash Metal. Expect something in a similar vein to the Self-Titled album. There will be a few musical surprises as always, but the plan is not to experiment too much with the vocals, rather keep them as straight forward Death Metal as possible.

Please keep the band in your prayers.

Another new interview with frontman Steve Rowe is now available in the Bio-Section. Since today (03/09) the german interview taken from "Teensmag" is also available in english.

In the biography section you can find a new interview. It is with Mortifications new drummer Mike Forsberg.

There are new pictures in the gallery. A few of the Brain Cleaner Launch Party in Melbourne and a few of the Revolution Metal Fest in Mexico. Thanks go out to Miguel Martinez for the permission of using the Revolution Metal Fest pictures and to Jason Parkin who sent in the Brain Cleaner Lauch Party pictures.

• Brain Cleaner Launch Party
• Revolution Metal Fest

Since today this new version of mortification.de is online. Currently there is an english and a german version available. Besides there are now all lyrics, lots of pics, a fancorner and much more.

On this page you'll keep updated according to news of Mortification and also according to new features of this page.

The first reissue of the old albums, Scrolls Of The Megilloth, is now available at soundmass.com. Besides a new arranged cover it has a few unreleased demos. Who still dont own this album should definitively get it.

Tracks

1. Nocturnal
2. Terminate Damnation
3. Eternal Lamentation
4. Raise The Chalice
5. Lymphosarcoma
6. Scrolls Of The Megilloth
7. Death Requiem
8. Necromanicide
9. Inflamed
10. Ancient Prophesy

Bonus-Tracks

11. Terminate Damnation (demo version)
12. Lymphosarcoma (demo version)
13. Necromanicide (demo version)
14. Scrolls Of The Megilloth (demo version)

According to Steve Rowe the older albums "Self-Titled" (s/t) and "Scrolls of the Megilloth" will be rereleased soon. Mortification also plan to rerelease the videos on DVD.