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Innovation or lack of talent disguised as such? Conjure your own decision. Mortal Pain uses any method necessary to create the bastardized audio known as song.
Brought to fruition in 1996, the grinding musical powerhouse has garnered an ever growing fanbase all around the globe; from The United States of America to Brazil, from England, Belgium, Germany, Russia, and France, to Japan, Canada and down south to Mexico. When the bastard child of John Stone and Dustin Portesi was dropped from the womb of inequity in the summer of 1996, it was decided that Mortal Pain was the appropriate name to fit the unique, distorted sound that would ultimately become a distinct trademark in the underground noise-rock scene.
John Stone and Dustin Portesi are agreedly the same soul trapped within two seperate mortal shells, having known each other, being best friends and neighbors since 1984, while John and Travers MacMaster bonded after inadvertantly witnessing a snuff film with one another. Their shock, disbelief, and disturbed psyches being the mold that melded the final members of the trio together. Their shared love of all things from music to film to literature and political and moral causes have kept them as close as two men can be without engaging in a homosexual relationship, nor being of the same paternal blood.
Colin Graham has been a lifelong fiend of John Stone and, being a genius on the sax, was recruited as a vital member of Mortal Pain.
In 2001, John Stone met Jameson Weatherford and the two became close friends with a shared love of music and politics, mixing the two. Their bleak, nihilistic outlook on life has kept their bond strengthened and Jameson has contributed some of Mortal Pain's greatest material. The same year, through John Stone's former girlfriend, Vanessa Harris, who has recorded drum tracks for a couple of songs, he met Morgan LeFlore and the two discovered that they had more in common in every aspect of life than one would ever fathom.
John's 2003 spiritual awakening has drastically taken the music in a new direction. The sound is the same, the message more powerful than ever, without forcing a message down anyone's throat.
In 2004, Mortal Pain was given the honor to open for one of their greatest influences; KMFDM. Due to a life or death situation, John Stone was hospitalized for 24 hours the night of the performance, Therefore, Morgan LeFlore covered for John on vocals whereas John's older brother Jeromy Stone, a guitar genius, performed said instrument live. Though Mortal Pain is by no means worthy of sharing the same stage as KMFDM, the opening performance went over much better than anticipated.
2009 has proven to be the year Mortal Pain finally emerges from the shadows as two new EP's and a full length album assembled by the current and most solid lineup are all being readied for independent release. Suicide By Cop (EP) and Perversions of the Soul (LP) are all but unleashed upon the unsuspecting masses in what will be Mortal Pain's 13th year in existence. Fans and haters, friends and neighbors; prepare yourself for the auditory equivalent of a full fledged assault; a violation of the senses.
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