Mercyless
Abject
Offerings – Re-Issue from June 1992
9
Track Album
Great
Dane Records
Released
22nd November 2014
One Mutha of an album - so good they released it twice!
Mercyless – Mulhouse, France
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Genre: Old School Death Metal
Biography:
“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 on 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!
Now re-released ‘Abject
Offerings’ on their new label GDR the band are set for new heights despite
once being part of the old metal furniture!”
Nyarlathotep (Intro)
Deeply disturbing, imposing and tense the edginess will make your
skin crawl with immediate effect. The vocals are explosive and charge through
the powerful lyrics quicker than an express train. I can safely say that the
band do not drag their heels in maintaining that evil atmosphere.
Abject Offerings
Icy shards of cold and uncompromising frets plow unmercifully to
quickening powerful beats that ignite and devour. Spreading discord through-out
the track the sultry heaviness will entrance the ears and offer something
neatly sublime.
A Message for All Those
Who Died
Embracing and yet hostile this track offers thunderous weaves of
delight as it pounds heavily on the senses and engages with a creative
enterprise. It bursts at the seams and explodes with a feisty chugging
onslaught. A very impressive track indeed.
Substance of Purity
This is so ravenous it will eat you from the inside out! Its madness
bubbles over into an intense lava flow that is simply vitriolic! It grows with
eager passions and fuses its powerful elements together to reveal its vice like
grip.
Flesh Divine
This track explores a further wild side that is fraught with
antagonistic and predacious riffs that batter the senses uncontrollably.
Engrossing and with superb imaginative rhythms it holds attention and delves
into the rabid and emotional current that runs through its core. Superb!!
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“It
is difficult to choose a favourite track as they are all master-pieces in their
own right! In fact it is an album that can be savoured with the use of headphones
and a volume level that goes way past 11 on the dial!”
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Without Christ
Unrelenting the power increases to an incredible height. Its
presence is dark and entwines around the senses in a mocking stance. Pumped
with adrenaline and high speed contagion it knows no bounds.
Unformed Tumours
Superb title to go with another superb track that will melt the
brain and devour the senses! The spicy riffs engage and leave one feeling
mesmerised by the vicious assault that descends from its tempting grooves.
Vocally snarling and evil it is one mutha of a track!
Burned at the Stake
Spiked with yet more pure evil as the intensity explodes into a
devilish acidity. It swaggers with a surging vengeance and tenacity. The
guitars literally scream in agony as the track plays out. The pulsing frenzy is
stoked with energy.
*Selected Resurrection
This track does not actually appear on the CD although stated.
Summary:
Through-out this malignant force of pure evil it really gives the
mind something hard to focus on. The
growls and strong vocals fester under the flesh while the music captures the
imagination.
It is difficult to choose a favourite track as they are all
master-pieces in their own right! In fact it is an album that can be savoured
with the use of headphones and a volume level that goes way past 11 on the
dial.
It can also be safely said that the album will indeed possess you as
the entity it houses is unleashed taking you to a place you don’t want to
return from.
The energy and passion rips out your very entrails just as any
forceful metal album should and leaves the listener satisfied but wanting more
of the same.
It is a distinctive album that revels in uncompromising structures
that wholly never fade. It’s one truly orgasmic album that deservedly needs to
be in every metal heads collection!
Mercyless
– live up to their name make no mistake!
10/10
Track List:
Nyarlathotep
(Intro)
Abject
Offerings
A
Message for All Those Who Died
Substance
of Purity
Flesh
Divine
Without
Christ
Unformed
Tumours
Burned
at the Stake
*Selected
Resurrection
Members:
Max
Otero – Guitar/Vocals
Steph
Viard – Lead Guitar
Gerald
Guenzi – Drums
Rade
Tadojcic - Bass
