Mercyless

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Nazione:Francia
Attività:dal 1987

Line up

  • YannTigui: bass
  • Max Otero: vocals, guitars
  • Laurent Michalak: drums
  • Gautier Merklen: guitars
Mercyless was created in 1987. 3 demo tapes later [ "Immortal Harmonies", "Visions from the Past", "Vomiting Nausea" from 1988 to 1990 ], they recorded their first album "Abject Offerings" [ released on Vinyl Solution Records ] with Colin Richardson [ Carcass, Machine Head, Napalm Death... ] in 1992.
This album was very well received worldwide and all these positive reactions were a great encouragement to progress in this infernal way !
After deadly gigs, Mercyless recorded a new album "Coloured funeral" in 1993 for the international label Century Media.
9 tracks of pure brutal death metal recorded and mixed by Colin Richarson again. This album is followed by an european tour with Death and Anacrusis, and another one with Morgoth, Tiamat, Samael, Unleashed and lot of french gigs with Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, Hypocrisy, Loudblast, Agressor, Sup, Desultory, Massacra...
1994 was quite an evolution with a new line up, add of a keyboard and a complex and finely-worked progressive Thrash / Death with many breaks and ideas. The album "Cold" [ Impact Records ] was recorded in 1995 and "Sure To Be Pure" [ Impact Records ] in 1996 with a technical and brutal style.
After a spanish tour in 1998, the band decided to let the band in stand-by...

2011, after 13 years of silence, Mercyless is finally back ! And to celebrate the return of one of the best death metal band from France, a double CD entitled "In Memory Of Agrazabeth", with all demos, rehearsals, live stuff, full booklet with photos and rare articles, is released through Legion of Death / Armée De La Mort Records !
After several gigs, the time has come to work on a new album in the vein of their two first debuts.
Mercyless quickly inked a deal with Trendkill Recordings and by late 2013, their new album "Unholy Black Splendor", mixed and mastered by master Dan Swanö [ Asphyx, Opeth, Dissection... ], is released worldwide as CD, LP and Digital. Artwork done by french duet Fortifem that perfectly fits this new dark masterpiece !
In 2016, the band releases "Pathetic Divinity" under Kaotoxin Records.
In the year 2020 they release the album "The Mother Of All Plagues" released by XenoKorp, now the new album "Those Who Reign Below" released by Osmose Productions is coming.

Discografia

Copertina 7,5
Those Who Reign Below (Osmose Productions / 2024) 

1. EXTREME UNCTION / 2. I AM HELL / 3. EVIL SHALL COME UPON YOU / 4. PHANTOMS OF CAÏN / 5. THY RESPLENDENT INFERNO / 6. CROWN OF BLASPHEMY / 7. PRELUDE TO ETERNAL DARKNESS ...

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The Mother Of All Plagues (XenoKorp / 2020) 

1. INFECTION / 2. RIVAL OF THE NAZARENE / 3. BANISHED FROM HEAVEN / 4. BRING ME HIS HEAD / 5. CONTAGION / 6. LAQUEUM DIABOLI / 7. DESCENDING TO CONQUER / 8. INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF HORUS ...

Copertina 6,5
Pathetic Divinity (Kaotoxin Records / 2016) 

1. BLOOD OF LAMBS / 2. PATHETIC DIVINITY / 3. A REPRESENTATION OF DARKNESS / 4. MY NAME IS LEGION / 5. EXHORT THE HERETIC / 6. LEFT TO ROT / 7. EUCHARISTIC ADORATION / 8. CHRISTIANIST ...

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Unholy Black Splendor (Trendkill Recordings / 2013) 

1. AT THE COMING OF DAWN (INTRO) / 2. I VOMIT THIS WORLD / 3. UNHOLY BLACK SPLENDOR / 4. GOD IS DREAMING / 5. GOAT OF MENDES / 6. INFAMY / 7. PROBABLY IMPURE / 8. ABSENT BELIEF / 9. BLESS ME FATHER ...

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Sure to Be Pure (System Shock / 2000) 

1. SURE TO BE PURE / 2. LA BOCA AMARGA / 3. ACCESS TO SILENCE / 4. DON'T WANT TO SEE / 5. SIMULATION INERTIA / 6. OBEDIENCE / 7. PLEASANT MOMENT WITH A VERMIN / 8. JAIL OF FLESH

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C.O.L.D. (Thunder Productions / 1996) 

1. ABORTIVE ATTEMPT / 2. IF THEY LIVE IN ECSTASY / 3. FLUIDS / 4. DORIAN / 5. NEUTRAL / 6. A NICE DAY TO SURVIVE / 7. AP4PN / 8. PERSONALITY ON RELIEF / 9. SERVANT / 10. STILL LIFE

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Coloured Funeral (Century Media Records / 1993) 

1. SPIRAL OF FLOWERS / 2. MIRRORS OF MELANCHOLY / 3. TRAVEL THROUGH A STRANGE EMOTION / 4. FORGOTTEN FRAGMENTS / 5. CONTEMPLATIONS / 6. AGRAZABETH / 7. SERENADES... (INTO YOUR LIMBS) ...

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Abject Offerings (Restless Records / 1992) 

1. NYARLATHOTEP / 2. ABJECT OFFERINGS / 3. A MESSAGE FOR ALL THOSE WHO DIED / 4. SUBSTANCE OF PURITY / 5. FLESH DIVINE / 6. WITHOUT CHRIST / 7. UNFORMED TUMORS / 8. BURNED AT THE STAKE ...

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