Mortification top ten songs

Probably been done before... (so what you gonna do about it! (if your name isn't Kerrick, that is)) So I am thinking and wondering for no real good reason except curiosity to find out what top ten songs come out on top overall in the Mortification catalogue. I'll drop mine a little later, once I give a few of the albums another listen. Some  of the later stuff is okay and some of it is... well let's not got there...

So let's see your top ten Mort songs please...

In no particular order:

1. Raise The Chalice
2. Monks Of The High Lord
3. Grind Planetarium
4. Nocturnal
5. Symbiosis
6. Providence
7. The Destroyer Beholds
8. 40:31
9. Human Condition
10. Lymphosarcoma

There are others that could have made the list, but this one will do for now.

1. Journey of Reconciliation

MagnusPrime wrote:In no particular order:

1. Raise The Chalice
2. Monks Of The High Lord
3. Grind Planetarium
4. Nocturnal
5. Symbiosis
6. Providence
7. The Destroyer Beholds
8. 40:31
9. Human Condition
10. Lymphosarcoma

There are others that could have made the list, but this one will do for now.

Surprised to see Raise the Chalice. Always liked that song. I find it quite chill, if that's possible for death metal. Think the drumming has a lot to do with that. But of course, that trio of sound was a short lived spark of magic. I like your list!

Temple of Blood wrote:1. Journey of Reconciliation

just the one song? Great doomy tune by the way. So Not a Mort fan?

Terminate Damnation has to be on my list. That's 1.

1. From the Valley of the Shadows
2. Death Requiem (probably unusualy to be this high, I don't know, I just stinkin' love this song)
3. Dark Allusions
4. Ancient Prophecy
5. Vital Fluids
6. Satans' Doom
7. Symbiosis
8. Monks of the High Lord
9. Journey of Reconciliation
10. Necromanicide

Looking at the list, it's pretty clear why my enjoyment of the band dropped off when it did. Top three (plus Symbiosis) are all credited as music written by Mick, another 4 written by Jayson, only 2 from Steve. Of course he wrote some others that I like which just didn't make the list, but it's interested to me to see how even though he was the face of the band, it was Jayson and Mick's influences that really pulled me in the tightest.

Brutal Warfare 
Death Requiem
Human Condition 
Overseer
Monks of the High Lord
Live by the Sword
40:31
Northern Storm
Metal Crusade
Web of Fire

Can we make it twenty so I can pack in the first two albums and be done with it?

Raegoul wrote:Can we make it twenty so I can pack in the first two albums and be done with it?

I was thinking the same, haha. I just realized this will be harder than I thought. They gotta lotta great stuff. But most of mine will come from the earlier works... I think. Going to give the later stuff a good go though.

For example, Quite like Northern storm, Razor back is pretty good too. And there are others which names I can't remember.

Grindboy wrote:1. From the Valley of the Shadows
2. Death Requiem (probably unusualy to be this high, I don't know, I just stinkin' love this song)
3. Dark Allusions
4. Ancient Prophecy
5. Vital Fluids
6. Satans' Doom
7. Symbiosis
8. Monks of the High Lord
9. Journey of Reconciliation
10. Necromanicide

Looking at the list, it's pretty clear why my enjoyment of the band dropped off when it did. Top three (plus Symbiosis) are all credited as music written by Mick, another 4 written by Jayson, only 2 from Steve. Of course he wrote some others that I like which just didn't make the list, but it's interested to me to see how even though he was the face of the band, it was Jayson and Mick's influences that really pulled me in the tightest.

Love Death Requiem. And that narration, that voice is deliciously evil even if it's not actual evil- if ya get me. Necromanicide too. mind, Scrolls is my favorite death metal album bar none. And yeah, those three guys were magic together. It was just the right combination. Also, Mick is a very underrated guitarist. Think it's quite funny too, he didn't care about leads, I mean for a guy in a death metal band... Another great list. Monks of the high lord looks like it might be in the top ten general list.

TZ75 wrote:Brutal Warfare 
Death Requiem
Human Condition 
Overseer
Monks of the High Lord
Live by the Sword
40:31
Northern Storm
Metal Crusade
Web of Fire

Monks of the high Lord and Death Requiem makes another appearance. Web of fire... Have to go give that a listen. Cool list.

So far...

...Monks of the high lord seems to be a definite one for the top ten Morty songs of all time.

There's no possible way this is correct without doing some listening:

Butchered Mutilation

Nocturnal

40:31

Razorback/Erasing the Goblin (which are basically the same song)

Scrolls

From the Valley of the Shadows

Grind Planetarium

Brutal Warfare

Your Life

Metal Crusade (an absolutely beautiful song)

Top 10 from the first 3:

Brutal Warfare
The Destroyer Beholds
Nocturnal
Terminate Damnation
Necromanicide 
From the Valley of Shadows
Distarnish Priest 
Grind Planetarium 
Impulsation 
Vital Fluids

From the rest:

Monks of the High Lord
Gut Wrench
EnVision Evangelene
Northern Storm
Influence 
Raw is the Stonewood Temple
In the Woods
Ride the Light 
Razorback 
Feed Your Hungry Ears

1. From the valley of the shadows
 2. Nocturnal
 3. Overseer
 4. Scrolls of the megilloth
 5. Terminate damnation


Count em twice and you got ten.

Dustofyears wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:1. Journey of Reconciliation

just the one song? Great doomy tune by the way. So Not a Mort fan?

I do enjoy Mort.  But in my listens this is still their greatest song with no close second.

Scrolls of Megilloth
Raice the Chalice
Terminate Damnation
Brutal Warfare
Human Condition
Impulsation
"Monks of the High Lord"
Providence
Influence

Metal Cruzade

Temple of Blood wrote:

Dustofyears wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:1. Journey of Reconciliation

just the one song? Great doomy tune by the way. So Not a Mort fan?

I do enjoy Mort.  But in my listens this is still their greatest song with no close second.

You should do a cover of it with ToB. Work on your growls!

TZ75 wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:

Dustofyears wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:1. Journey of Reconciliation

just the one song? Great doomy tune by the way. So Not a Mort fan?

I do enjoy Mort.  But in my listens this is still their greatest song with no close second.

You should do a cover of it with ToB. Work on your growls!

Nah, don’t do growls. Cover it with yodels.

Pethead wrote:Top 10 from the first 3:

Brutal Warfare
The Destroyer Beholds
Nocturnal
Terminate Damnation
Necromanicide 
From the Valley of Shadows
Distarnish Priest 
Grind Planetarium 
Impulsation 
Vital Fluids

From the rest:

Monks of the High Lord
Gut Wrench
EnVision Evangelene
Northern Storm
Influence 
Raw is the Stonewood Temple
In the Woods
Ride the Light 
Razorback 
Feed Your Hungry Ears

That's cheating... Be brave... there can be, only ten!

scottmitchell74 wrote:There's no possible way this is correct without doing some listening:

Butchered Mutilation

Nocturnal

40:31

Razorback/Erasing the Goblin (which are basically the same song)

Scrolls

From the Valley of the Shadows

Grind Planetarium

Brutal Warfare

Your Life

Metal Crusade (an absolutely beautiful song)

Butchered Mutilation: I forgot about this one. When this track came out, I remember thinking how it sounds like nothing else they've ever done. Sounds like a completely different band. In fact, it could've been a missing track from a real early Cannibal corpse album, and funnily enough, the particular album i thought of was Butchered at birth. But also could've been from the eaten back to life. I'm thinking they trying their hand at the cannibal corpse sound. I'm glad they went with the smoke and ash sound of Scrolls, which is all their own sound, absolutely! Still a good track though.

Dustofyears wrote:

scottmitchell74 wrote:There's no possible way this is correct without doing some listening:

Butchered Mutilation

Nocturnal

40:31

Razorback/Erasing the Goblin (which are basically the same song)

Scrolls

From the Valley of the Shadows

Grind Planetarium

Brutal Warfare

Your Life

Metal Crusade (an absolutely beautiful song)

Butchered Mutilation: I forgot about this one. When this track came out, I remember thinking how it sounds like nothing else they've ever done. Sounds like a completely different band. In fact, it could've been a missing track from a real early Cannibal corpse album, and funnily enough, the particular album i thought of was Butchered at birth. But also could've been from the eaten back to life. I'm thinking they trying their hand at the cannibal corpse sound. I'm glad they went with the smoke and ash sound of Scrolls, which is all their own sound, absolutely! Still a good track though.

If I recall correctly, Butchered Mutilation was an outtake from the PMA album.

MagnusPrime wrote:

Dustofyears wrote:

scottmitchell74 wrote:There's no possible way this is correct without doing some listening:

Butchered Mutilation

Nocturnal

40:31

Razorback/Erasing the Goblin (which are basically the same song)

Scrolls

From the Valley of the Shadows

Grind Planetarium

Brutal Warfare

Your Life

Metal Crusade (an absolutely beautiful song)

Butchered Mutilation: I forgot about this one. When this track came out, I remember thinking how it sounds like nothing else they've ever done. Sounds like a completely different band. In fact, it could've been a missing track from a real early Cannibal corpse album, and funnily enough, the particular album i thought of was Butchered at birth. But also could've been from the eaten back to life. I'm thinking they trying their hand at the cannibal corpse sound. I'm glad they went with the smoke and ash sound of Scrolls, which is all their own sound, absolutely! Still a good track though.

If I recall correctly, Butchered Mutilation was an outtake from the PMA album.

You're probably right. My brain is very foggy on all of this. I seem to recall it being on the Break the curse 1990 version, or maybe it was the later version... I should look it up. I know they added to the reissue of PMA so that suggests maybe it was an outtake from that album. Really strange. To me it would've felt quite strange had it been released on that album. had a listen to it after not hearing for years. It's still goes for the throat! What a vicious piece of a killer death metal track that is.

Dustofyears wrote:

MagnusPrime wrote:

Dustofyears wrote:

scottmitchell74 wrote:There's no possible way this is correct without doing some listening:

Butchered Mutilation

Nocturnal

40:31

Razorback/Erasing the Goblin (which are basically the same song)

Scrolls

From the Valley of the Shadows

Grind Planetarium

Brutal Warfare

Your Life

Metal Crusade (an absolutely beautiful song)

Butchered Mutilation: I forgot about this one. When this track came out, I remember thinking how it sounds like nothing else they've ever done. Sounds like a completely different band. In fact, it could've been a missing track from a real early Cannibal corpse album, and funnily enough, the particular album i thought of was Butchered at birth. But also could've been from the eaten back to life. I'm thinking they trying their hand at the cannibal corpse sound. I'm glad they went with the smoke and ash sound of Scrolls, which is all their own sound, absolutely! Still a good track though.

If I recall correctly, Butchered Mutilation was an outtake from the PMA album.

You're probably right. My brain is very foggy on all of this. I seem to recall it being on the Break the curse 1990 version, or maybe it was the later version... I should look it up. I know they added to the reissue of PMA so that suggests maybe it was an outtake from that album. Really strange. To me it would've felt quite strange had it been released on that album. had a listen to it after not hearing for years. It's still goes for the throat! What a vicious piece of a killer death metal track that is.

I think it was tacked onto the 1994 re-issue of Break The Curse as a bonus track. 
Musically it would have worked better on Scrolls, but you can tell by the production/mix that it was most likely recorded during the PMA sessions. It's a cool song!

TZ75 wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:

Dustofyears wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:1. Journey of Reconciliation

just the one song? Great doomy tune by the way. So Not a Mort fan?

I do enjoy Mort.  But in my listens this is still their greatest song with no close second.

You should do a cover of it with ToB. Work on your growls!

Maybe live.  But I don't like to record covers that I don't think can be improved.  I kinda hate it when bands do that.