Post Momentary Affliction

Post Momentary Affliction is the third studio album by Australian Christian death metal band Mortification, released in 1993. The album's sound has Mortification returning to their thrash metal roots, but with death metal elements still showing. It contains an alternate recording of the track "Impulsation" from the band's Break the Curse demo album. Post Momentary Affliction was bundled with Mortification's 1992 album Scrolls of the Megilloth on Nuclear Blast and included "Butchered Mutilation" as a bonus track, releasing on 18 November 1996. In 2008, a reissue was released by Metal Mind Productions, which also included "Butchered Mutilation" and three live tracks. Soundmass released reissues in 2020 and 2022, with the former having three live tracks and the latter having new remastering and two discs, with the second CD containing fifteen live tracks1; both reissues include "Butchered Mutilation". In 2010, HM Magazine ranked Post Momentary Affliction No. 70 on the Top 100 Christian metal albums of all-time list.[1]

Post Momentary Affliction
Studio album by
Released1993
Recorded1993
StudioToybox Studios in Northcote, Melbourne, Australia
Genre
Length50:48
LabelIntense, Nuclear Blast
ProducerDoug Saunders, Mark Staiger
Mortification chronology
Scrolls of the Megilloth
(1992)
Post Momentary Affliction
(1993)
Live Planetarium
(1993)
Intense Records Cover Art

Recording

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Post Momentary Affliction was recorded at Toybox Studios in Northcote, Melbourne, Australia. Pre-production took place at Jamtim Studios in Cheltenham, Melbourne. The album was released on Intense Records and Nuclear Blast, with both versions having different cover artwork; the 2020 reissue contains both covers.

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Mortification

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Allusions from the Valley of Darkness"  0:47
2."From the Valley of Shadows"Michael CarlisleCarlisle8:04
3."Human Condition"Steve RoweRowe4:36
4."Distarnish Priest"RoweRowe7:24
5."Black Lion of the Mind" (Instrumental)  0:27
6."Grind Planetarium"RoweRowe4:27
7."Pride Sanitarium" (Instrumental) Mortification1:18
8."Overseer"CarlisleCarlisle9:17
9."This Momentary Affliction"CarlisleCarlisle0:51
10."Flight of Victory" (Instrumental) Rowe1:51
11."Impulsation[a]"RoweRowe4:24
12."Liquid Assets" (Instrumental)  0:33
13."Vital Fluids"RoweRowe6:20
14."The Sea of Forgetfulness" (Instrumental)  0:29
Total length:50:48
a Re-recorded song from Break the Curse
Bonus track on re-releases
No.TitleLength
15."Butchered Mutilation"4:46
Total length:55:34
2008 reissue exclusive bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
16."Grind Planetarium (Live)"5:16
17."Distarnish Priest (Live)"7:51
18."From the Valley of Shadows (Live)"8:07
Total length:76:48
2020 reissue exclusive bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
16."Distarnish Priest (Live 1996)"7:09
17."Grind Planetarium (Live 2002)"5:45
18."Medley (Live 2002)"7:25
Total length:75:53
"Live 1994" 2022 reissue bonus tracks (disc two)
No.TitleLength
1."From the Valley of Shadows" (Live 1994)8:28
2."Impulsation" (Live 1994)5:06
3."Scrolls of the Megilloth" (Live 1994)3:20
4."Grind Planetarium" (Live 1994)5:56
5."Starlight" (Live 1994)5:33
6."Blood World" (Live 1994)5:58
7."Death Reqiuem" (Live 1994)5:27
8."Break the Curse" (Live 1994)3:04
9."Distarnish Priest" (Live 1994)6:48
10."The Destroyer Beholds" (Live 1994)3:26
11."Symbiosis" (Live 1994)5:41
12."Time Crusaders" (Live 1994)4:53
13."God Rulz" (Live 1994)1:14
14."This Momentary Affliction" (Live 1994)0:25
15."J.G.S.H. (Jesus Grind Satan's Head)" (Live 1994)0:53
Total length:66:18

Personnel

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Notes

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1. The 2022 reissue live tracks were recorded at Cornerstone Festival on 1 July 1994 in Bushnell, Illinois.

References

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  1. ^ Van Pelt, Doug (2010). "Top 100 Christian metal albums of all time". HM Magazine. August.