Mortiis is the on stage persona of Håvard Ellefsen, a musician from Norway who began his musical career playing bass guitar in the band Emperor. After leaving the band Ellefsen started to experiment with a lot of dark ambient sounding music with his main focus being on Mortiis, which he eventually formed a band under the name of. Until 2007 Mortiis was known to wear a mask on stage resembling a troll like character, but following the remix album Some Kind of Heroin, Mortiis stated that the mask had been shelved.
Mortiis' albums are often categorised by eras, referring to the continuing developement of the way Mortiis' music would sound. This track, The Worst In Me, is taken from the 2004 album The Grudge, which in 2005 was selected by the Norwegian Culture Council to be made available for listening to the public in all the libraries in Norway for free. The album was chosen along with a few others which best reflect and promote Norwegian Music and Culture.
