''Blood World'' is the fourth studio album by Australian

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band

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, released in 1994. The songs "Your Life", "J.G.S.H." and "Love Song" were included on the ''Tourniquet/Mortification Collector's Edition CD Single'' in 1994; the disc also contained a segment discussing Mortification's history, from the video release of '' Live Planetarium'', and material from American Christian metal band

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's album '' Vanishing Lessons''. ''Blood World'' was a commercial hit and the band's most successful album.Ryhänen, Pekk
Mortification review
Imperiumi.net The album focuses more on

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, with

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and

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influences, and contains less

influences than previous albums. Instead of Steve Rowe's growls, the album mainly contains his shouting-style singing, but growls do make occasional appearances.

Reception

According to Australian Music Online, "the strange combination of extreme styles began setting Mortification apart from the crowd of same sounding bands and widened the band's audience as they became quickly recognised as innovators and not imitators." ''Blood World'' received rave reviews in America and Europe. ''Horror Infernal Magazine'' gave the album 13 out of 13 points.Mortification Biography
, Australian Music Online. Amo.org.au

Reissue

A reissue of ''Blood World'' was released in 2008 by

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and contained four bonus tracks. A second reissue, by Soundmass, was released in 2020 and contained four bonus tracks.

Track listing

: previously recorded on ''Live Planetarium'' (1993) : song from ''Relentless'' (2002) : songs from ''Live Without Fear'' (1996)

Personnel

Mortification *

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– vocals, bass guitar *Michael Carlisle – guitar *Phil Gibson – drums Production *Mark McCormack, Mortification – producer, mixing, recording Additional personnel *Mortification – cover concept *Dave Berryman – photography *Matthew Duffy – art direction *Jack Wedell – design (original version) *Chris Dean – cover artwork (original version) *Tobias Jäpel – cover artwork (2020 version) *Scott Waters (

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) – layout, design (2020 version)

References

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