[2] In high school, the band leader Kurt Bachman met Scott Laird, who was studying his first year as a music instructor.

When Believer was recording the title track for Extraction from Mortality, the band asked Laird to compose an orchestral intro for the song.

Extraction from Mortality gained notice among non-Christian metal fans, and Believer was signed to Roadrunner Records in 1990.

A label called M8 re-issued the album in 2001, printing 2000 copies of it; this release contains the remixed version of "Vile Hypocrisy" and "The Chosen" demo song as bonus tracks.

In 2007, the Polish label Metal Mind Productions re-released Extraction from Mortality in a remastered digipak version with 2000 copies; this release does not have the two bonus tracks.