Mortality (Australian band)

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Mortality
General information
origin Kings Langley , Australia
Genre (s) Death Metal , Groove Metal , Thrash Metal
founding 1992, 2006
resolution 1997, 2006
Last occupation
Luke Ford
Andrew Lilley
Darren Maloney
Steve Pell
former members
Drums
 Rick Fuda
Electric guitar
 Darren Jenkins
Electric guitar
 Craig Figl

Mortality was an Australian death , thrash and groove metal band from Kings Langley that was formed in 1992 and disbanded in 1997. In 2006 the band was briefly active again.

history

The band was founded in 1992 as a quintet whose core consisted of singer Darren Maloney, bassist Luke Ford and guitarist Darren Jenkins. A little later, the group shrank to a quartet, with Rick Fuda occupying the drums. In February 1993 the demo Eternal Life was released , followed in the same year by the EP Aggression = Power via Warhead Records . Then it went on a national tour with Sepultura . In 1994 Steve Pell joined as the new drummer, before Jenkins was replaced by guitarist Craig Figl the following year. In early 1997, the debut album Structure was released via Warhead Records . Six months later the band broke up due to musical differences between Maloney and the other members.

At the end of 2004 a new formation was announced, but the band remained inactive. It wasn't until early 2006 that Maloney, Ford, Pell and guitarist Andrew Lilley started rehearsing. After a gig in August of that year, the band broke up again.

style

According to Brian Giffin in his Encyclopedia of Australian Heavy Metal , the band initially played Pantera- style music before playing a mix of groove and death metal with irregular time signature . Michael O'Brien of themetalforge.com noted in his review of Structure that the album was heavily influenced by the Fear Factory album Demanufacture and the Meshuggah album Destroy Erase Improve , both of which were released the year before. The more direct influence, however, is the first album, whereby the style is not simply copied, but integrated into Mortality's Thrash Metal style.

Discography

  • 1993: Eternal Life (demo, self-published)
  • 1993: Aggression = Power (EP, Warhead Records )
  • 1994: Oppressive (EP, Warhead Records)
  • 1997: Structure (Album, Warhead Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Brian Giffin: Encyclopedia of Australian Heavy Metal . 3rd revised edition. Dark Star, Katoomba 2015, ISBN 978-0-9943206-1-2 .
  2. ↑ Biography. rockdetector.com, archived from the original on February 27, 2016 ; accessed on May 24, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Michael O'Brien: Mortality. Structure. themetalforge.com, accessed May 24, 2017 .