Mercenary have been joined by Danish drummer Morten Løwe (Submission, Arcane Order, a.o.), who made the following comment:

"I'm happy to announce that I have now joined Mercenary. After having shared the stage with Mercenary alongside my band Submission, I became really impressed by their shows and musicianship, so I'm really looking forward to deliver some kick-ass shows as their drummer. I'm also very excited about being involved in the writing for the next album. It will show a new Mercenary, and I mean that in a very positive way. In my opinion the new material will definitely be the strongest to this date!"

Guitarist Jakob Mølbjerg adds:

"We're very happy to have Morten join the ranks. Not only is he a true master behind the drums, he's also a very easygoing person with a great musical drive and understanding. With Morten in the band, there's a whole new sense of renewed and shared energy, creativity and ambition. We've had several rehearsal sessions in the last couple of weeks, and the metal just flows. The old songs already sound like Morten have played them for years, and the new material is crushing and intense.

On a further note, we now have a complete lineup. René will handle all vocals from now on, and trust us, he's more than capable of doing so. As everybody who has seen us live in the last couple of years is fully aware of, René is a real powerhouse, and he has so much more under his belt than he got to display on the previous album (genital pun intended.)"

Mercenary will perform with their new lineup for the first time at the Shock Rock Festival on 12th of February, 2010 (w. Carpark North, The Rumour Said Fire a.o.) More info here: www.rockshock.dk

A small leftover batch of Execution Tour T-shirts and Girlies in various colours are now for sale at only 14 € from the webshop on mercenary.dk - go get'em while they last!

Enter Mercenary Webshop here!

 

Following our nothing short of amazing tour with Arch Enemy in May, we have restocked our merchandise supplies, and now we have the much demanded Headbanger Deluxe Hoodies, Execution Style T-shirts and Redefine Me T-shirts in stock again in (nearly) all sizes. Go get'em @ www.mercenary.dk

Well, it's the day before our Danish 'Execution Tour' starts with fellow Danish metallers Submission, and we're psyched! The last couple of weeks have been spent rehearsing new and old songs for the set, so there's some old stuff as well as a song from 'Architect of Lies' we've never played live before (hardcore fans should be able to figure that one out.)
Furthermore, we felt we owed it to the fans to up our game a bit, so last weekend we had a production-rehearsal (All Sunday, from early morning - how's that for dedication?). We borrowed a local venue (a big thank-you to Studenterhuset) and put up all our gear and some lights we've rented for the tour - and it looked absolutely cool as fuck! We've got a wall of guitarstacks and some huge basscabinets lined up to blow everything away, a really intense and quite special light setup and some small really cool details and gimmicks. Of course we also rehearsed the songs one final time to go over some microscopic details, shouted to our light-engineer that he should get his act together and changed a few arrangements in the songs in the very last minute. (Hell, we might as well admit that we even practiced a few nifty synchronized moves on stage ... now, how metal is that? The review who once called us 'a deathmetal boygroup' actually turned out to be spot on ...)
Finally, we've also made a few new shirt designs (a new one based on the AoL coverart, and a limited tour-shirt) which will shortly be available in our webshop and on the tour of course.
All in all, this could very well be the coolest string of Danish shows we've ever done - so the question you all gotta ask yourself is whether you dare to miss out?
DCLXVI
Mercenary

It's a great pleasure to announce that we will once more tour with the almighty Arch Enemy,
this time as main support / special guests no less!

These are the dates:
May 24 - Zagreb, Croatia - Boogalo
May 26 - Budapest, Hungary - Diesel
May 28 - Rome, Italy - Blackout
May 29 - Roncade, Italy - New Age Club
May 30 - Pinarella di Cervia, Italy - Rock Planet

For the rest of February, we will be giving away free signed tour posters (for the upcoming Danish 'Execution Tour') with every order from our webshop.

Take a peek at the posters below and get'em in the Mercenary webshop
 

When we entered 2009 we had the feeling that 2008 would be a hard year
to top – we’d just returned from a really great tour with Arch Enemy in
December (who needless to say rocked our proverbial socks off every
night – one of the greatest liveacts we’ve ever seen), we’d done the
Danish Headbanger’s Ball tour with fellow hybrid-metallers Raunchy
(which was something we’d wanted to do in a long time - but never
again, eyyy!), we’d played our biggest show ever on Wacken, and last
but not least, we had the honor of serving time on stage as support for
the almighty Megadeth on a handful of shows. Truly a great experience,
and a lesson well learned for us – no matter how big you get or how
many million albums you sell, there’s always time to show respect for
bands a zillion times smaller than yours. No matter what anybody say or
write, we’ll always remember Dave Mustaine as a truly humble and
helluva funny guy, who went out of his way to make us feel welcome and
who made sure we were treated well by his crew on these few dates. We
even got to share the stage with Megadeth, singing badly out-of-tune
backing vocals for ‘Peace Sells’ for one of the shows, which was to say
the least, surreal.



Well, so, here we are a month into 2009 and what a way to start the
year! We just got nominated for a 'Danish Music Award' (a Grammy) for
our 2008 album 'Architect of Lies' in the category 'Hard Rock Album of
the Year.’ Needless to say, we’re immensely proud of this in a country
that’s dead set on keeping metal out of the media and shove it as far
into the underground as possible. So, this is at least a chance to roar
our ugly mugs at the establishment. (At least metaphorically, as we
can’t even attend the award show as we’re touring the other end of the
country by then. And yes, Denmark is actually big enough to an ‘other
end’.)

Secondly, we have a brand new music video for the track 'The Endless
Fall' ready for you all, which features liveshots from Wacken 2008
combined with some very cool shots and killer special effects from
Chilean director Carlos Toro. It’s a little gift directly from the band
to the fans out there, which we chose to finance out of our own
near-empty pockets, and as it’s unlikely to get any airplay (see
abovementioned nagging about the Danish media), we really hope you guys
out there enjoy the shit out of it. (However that is done.) Enjoy!

Furthermore, to truly kick off 2009 in a proper manner, we're now in
rehearsal mode for our upcoming Danish 'Execution Tour', where we'll do
our fiercest to rip the heads off the crowds each and every night.
(Again, metaphorically of course.) For the benefit of the few
stalker-fans out there who might have grown tired of the setlist from
last year, we're even going over some old material we haven't played in
a while as well as a song from the new album which we haven't played
live at all before.

Last but not least, we have some great news on the livefront lurking
right around the corner. Stay tuned for a very cool announcement coming
soon...

"Endless Fall" video can be found here :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BAg73J8CbU&feature=channel

When the biggest award show in Denmark hits the tv screens Mercenary will be one of the nominees. We are nominated in the category "Best Hard Rock album"
We're are extremely proud to be considered for this award and hopefully we will not go home empty-handed.

The award show will take place in Tivoli's Glassalen on the 28th of February.

Cheers and keep your fingers crossed

/Mercenary