Voluntary Mortification

ssage right into the pit; not just into the mosh pit, but into the pit of darkness and evil that runs rampant in our world and within people seeking an escape. Each of us in the band knows we are broken and are sinners, but through our own sufferings, we’ve found faith and want to share that with our brother and sister metalhead. We feel called to create not only music to break faces, but break people’s souls; break down the walls we put up and let in someone better: Jesus Christ. Our first album is a concept album, “Suffer to Rise,” which follows the journey of a man, who after a life of dissipation, descends into Hell. The first part of that story is captured in our first song release, “Death Tremors”, a pummeling track with haunting lyrics depicting the angst of a soul who experiences the ultimate regret of a life lost because he rejected the graces of God. Yet this protagonist, named Paul (after the apostle and saint), is given a chance to realize his mistake in rejecting God and His invitation for eternal bliss and glory. He emerges renewed and reinvigorated as a vindicator for Truth in a world that has lost its way, with an abundance of grace and a mission for the remainder of his life. As far as our name goes, Voluntary Mortification sums up the call of the Christian life: to voluntarily lay down our lives for one another and deny our very selves and our desires. We believe the idea of dying to yourself is pretty radical and extreme - just like the very music we listen to and create.