Mortification is an Australian
Christian extreme metal band which was formed in 1987 as a heavy metal group,
Lightforce, by mainstay
Steve Rowe on bass guitar and vocals. By 1990, in the Melbourne suburb of
Moorabbin, they were renamed as Mortification with the line-up of Rowe, Michael Carlisle on guitar and
Jayson Sherlock on drums. Mortification has released over twenty albums and several videos on major record labels such as
Nuclear Blast. As one of the earliest internationally successful Christian
death metal bands from Australia, they served as an inspiration for later similar groups.