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27 Apr 2010 - Festival Cancellation

Unfortunately, we have to cancel our show on the “Masters of Metal” festival in Finland due to logistical problems. There was simply no way to get a flight schedule from Aalborg to Tampere without spending an obscene amount of money and 4-5 days total on the festival. (And that was before the Atomic Death Cloud hit Europe - as you can imagine, it didn't exactly make it easier to get tickets.)

Since we’re also currently heavily engaged in the writing and preproduction our new album, we agreed with the kind promoters at SSG that it made a lot more sense to delay our return to Finland until the new album is out. Our apologies to everybody who were looking forward to our show.

01 Apr 2010 - More Mercenary Jazz!

Following the overwhelming positive feedback on their free-jazz version of the 2004 classic 'Firesoul', Mercenary have decided to do an extensive pub and folk-festival tour during the summer of 2010, performing more hearty jazz renditions of more classic Mercenary material such as "Premature Burial", "Obscure Indiscretion" and "Lie of the Tiger" (unreleased).

The last of the remaining original members, guitarist Jakob Mølbjerg, is said not to be included in this live lineup as he preferred to remain behind the scenes, taking care of the business aspect and doing the accounting instead. Jakob comments: "The internet has totally screwed up the whole music industry which is now spinning out of control. This is our attempt to grasp reality by the horns. Besides, accounting has always been my way to impose order upon chaos, which is what tr00 metal is all about anyway."

Confronting speculations that he has been the main driving force in motivating Mercenary to jazz out, guitar prodigy Martin Buus comments: "A man's gotta eat. I need the money - smiley."

A jazz-metal single is also under consideration, expected to see the light of day before the new Mercenary album (tentatively titled 'Songs for the Circlepit'.)

Watch or re-watch the Firesoul jazz classic on Youtube

21 Dec 2009 - New drummer and first concert with new line-up

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

11 Nov 2009 - Drummer, singer and keyboardplayer leaves Mercenary.

Sadly, people, this is no joke.

As of today Mercenary have parted ways with Mike (drums), Mikkel (vocals), and Morten (keyboards).

Read the full story and statements here.

10 Sep 2009 - René featured in Tattoo Book!

Our bassplayer René is featured in 'Under The Skin Of Rock N' Roll,' a new 388 page book on tattoos and metal featuring 97 exclusive interviews and numerous unreleased and unseen photos, is now available via Amazon. (Book available in German only.)

Artists featured in the book include IN FLAMES, DISTURBED, WALLS OF JERICHO, KREATOR, SEPULTURA, SHINEDOWN, CRADLE OF FILTH, OOMPH!, DESTRUCTION, AGNOSTIC FRONT, EXODUS, STONE SOUR, DEADLOCK, PAIN, SOILWORK, EXILIA, PRIMORDIAL, DISMEMBER, DARK FUNERAL, TRIVIUM, LETZTE INSTANZ, THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE, MERCENARY and many more.

The book can be bought at amazon.de, more info on www.myspace.com/rockandtattoo

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