Mortus

There are at least three bands using this name:

1) Mortus is a Melodic Death Metal band from Linz, Austria. Formed as Sadistic Hate in 1993 they changed their name to Mortus in 1994. It is very likely that the band either split-up or is inactive, as there have been no news on their website for two and a half years.

Sometime in 1993 Inch and Sharp founded the formation "Sadistic Hate". A year later the original cast has changed and it has been decided to give the band a new name. Mortus, with Thomson - vocals, Jay - bass, Inch - guitar, Sharp - guitar and Crack - drums, was born. In 1995 we contributed 2 songs to a Sampler with a cross-section through the music - scene of Linz. Still in the same year we signed a contract with CCP-Records and published our Mini-CD "Hopeless" in spring 96. It was a real Old School Death Metal - Crusher. Two years after we made our debut our first Longplayer faced earth's light. "The Beat of Greed" was positioned close by the predecessor, concerning the music, but it was matured and the velocity has been decreased. A year later, Sharp has chucked in his guitar to have more time for his other hobbies. We needed a new string-artist to fill our gap. A real lucky chance was the joint of Dominik, in '99. He was really a good guy and his playing abilities were great. Since then, he played all lead- and sologuitars. Originally, we wanted to bring out a new album at the beginning of the new millennium, but that was delayed for a while because of some personal things. In July 2001 we entered the Studio of CCP Records to ban "Exploring New Horizons" on sound-carrier. We digested a lot of things, happened in the 4 years before. Unfortunately, Dominik got out of the Band because he has too many projects in which he could better follow his own way to self realization. From this point we carried on with only 4 members. It was surprising, but the songwriting was easier than before. Perhaps the reason was that we felt like we have dropped all ballast and we are now able to focus actual topics. In June, our new album "Leaving The Swamps" will be published and we believe that we can be proud it. We made a step forward with this album, again.

Current line-up Thomas 'Thomson' Hirtenkauf - Vocals Roland 'Roli' Moser - Guitars Ingmar 'Inch' Eggertsberger - Guitars Jürgen 'Reverend Jay' Lalik - Bass Gregor 'Crack' Stellnberger - Drums

Former members Günther 'Sharp' F. - Guitars (1993-1998) Dominik Sebastian Hindinger - Guitars (1999-2002)

Discography 1996: Hopeless (CCP-Records) 1997: The Beat of Greed (CCP-Records) 2002: Exploring New Horizons (CCP-Records) 2003: Leaving the Swamps (CCP-Records)

Official band website: www.mortus.net

2) Mortus is a Thrash Metal band from Poland.

3) Mortus is a Thrash/Black Metal band from Croatia.

4) Mortus is a Death Metal band from Utah