Death.FM - Mercenary

#	Track Listing	Length	Played
01	Into The Sea Of Dark Desires Mercenary	1:06	8
02	World Hate Center Mercenary	4:58	16
03	11 Dreams Mercenary	6:51	29
04	Redestructdead Mercenary	5:45	8
05	Firesoul Mercenary	7:36	26
06	Sharpen The Edges Mercenary	5:33	13
07	Supremacy V2.0 Mercenary	8:09	8
08	Music Non Stop (Kent Cover) Mercenary	4:11	15
09	Falling Mercenary	6:56	11
10	Times Without Changes Mercenary	2:58	9
11	Loneliness Mercenary	7:36	13

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Denmark's finest melodeath

By:	Eskidead
Date:	29 May 2011
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When Mercenary released 11 Dreams in 2004, they set a standard within the Danish metal scene that no other band could accomplish. At the Danish Metal Awards 2004 they won in the following categories: Album of the year - Vocalists of the year (Mikkel Sandager, clean vocals - Kral, growls, shouts) - Guitar player of the year (Martin Buus, lead guitar) and they came in 2nd in the category Live band of the year.

Is all this praise justified then? The answer is one huge YES!

Eventhough their previous album Everblack from 2002 showed a band playing atmospheric melodeath with creativity and brutality, 11 Dreams took all that and added so much more of everything. More melody, more heavyness, more atmospheric keyboards (done brilliantly by Morten Sandager, brother of Mikkel) and to top all that off, 11 Dreams comes with a production so perfectly done. This is really Jacob Hansen's (HateSphere, Dawn of Demise and others) best produced album ever.

Every song on here goes in a different direction, yet they all offer something new to the album, be it the crushing and vicious manifesto of World Hate Center, the precisely layered guitars in 11 Dreams, or simply Firesoul; the song that will show you why Mikkel Sandager is one of the best clean vocalists in Denmark. From brutality to soft spots, because Mercenary master this perfectly as well. Sharpen The Edges begins as a ballad, but halfway turns into a more gloomy and dark, almost black metal'ish piece. Mercenary even dared to put a pop song cover in. Music Non Stop was originally done by the Swedish band Kent, but Mercenary has really spiced it up and added their personal metal touch to it.
11 Dreams ends in the most epic way one can imagine; Loneliness is a majestic song, powerful but at the same time sad without being a ballad.

How Mercenary with 11 Dreams have managed to create such a perfect album is beyond me. There is something for every metal fan here, and I dare procaiming this Album of the decade 2000-2009.

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