MERCENARY - Demos Collection LP roots Previously unreleased ’74–75 homemade recordings

Previously unreleased ’74–75 homemade recordings by Swiss prog /psych legends Ertlif

it’s easy to forget that studios could also be used as something more akin to a photo-booth

just monolithic slabs of cemetery dirt guitars

The drums take a lingers pulse rather than establish more of a beat as the song hypnotically drives the point home

far and in-between

MERCENARY - Demos Collection LP roots Previously unreleased ’74–75 homemade recordingsLimited edition of 500 copies. While this is titled Demos Collection, its actually a discographythe collected works of one of the most ferocious hardcore groups to come out of the Southeast in the last decade. MERCENARY's noisy, heavy riffing blends Scandinavian and Japanese influences, and the drums blaze a frantic d beat. Its the vocals, though, that propel their recordings into the stratosphere. Vocalist Michael "RUBY" Rubenstein was at his most