Everblack [Import]

Mercenary | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 17, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Hammerheart Records
• ASIN: B000060K8F
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #344,693 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Everblack

2. Seize The Night

3. Screaming From The Heavens

4. Dead Dot Com

5. Darkspeed

6. Bloodrush

7. A Darker Shade Of Black

8. Bulletblues

9. Rescue Me

10. Alliance

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars dark yet beautiful, melo-death at it's finest, December 3, 2004

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L. Zimmerman "Burning Angel" (Nebraska) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Everblack (Audio CD)

Fans of Dark Tranquility, Soilwork, In Flames will eat these guys up, honestly i have to admit until about 4 month ago i had no idea who these guys were, i was reading all the press about there new cd 11 dreams which is just as if not more fantastic then this cd I bought that first then this a few weeks later, at first i was like what the big deal, but the more i listened the more i was pulled in ,and i can't or don't want to be pulled back out, these 2 cds are rapidly rising as 2 of the best cd's i own it's like a addiction almost, glad to see Century Media picked them up for 11 dreams maybe now this awesome band will get the exposure they deserve. there is so much going on in there music it's heavy, dark, epic'esque in parts, death with a touch of black metal thrown in, some clean vox, piano. Every single song on this cd rocks.

But Personally these 3 stand out for me.

1. Screaming From the heavens (quite possible one of the best songs ive ever heard in my life, this song is hard for me to move past it gets replayed over and over again.)

2. Bloodrush - right up there with screaming from the heavens heavy yet beautiul song.

3. Rescue Me - another awesome song that gets serious replay on my player

why it took me all these months to right this review i do not know but listen up cuz these guys are a bunch of talented musicians and i believe are the rightful heir to the thrown that In Flames stepped off of after they made reroute to reamin. in my opinon current day In Flames and Soilwork don't come anywhere near this (it's good stuff and i listen to it just nowhere near the same quality as Everblack and 11 Dreams). maybe a few years back in there prime , but these danish metalheads are just hitting there's . Dark Tranquility is still keeping it true looking foward to Character. Enjoy the cd or cd's I know i do Mercenary is a name we'll be hearing alot about in the years to come.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 4.5 stars - genre-bending metal, August 30, 2004

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Justin Gaines (Northern Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Everblack (Audio CD)

Mercenary was the surprise (for me) from 2003's ProgPower USA event. I hadn't heard them before, so I was expecting another run of the mill prog/power metal band. Instead I heard a band that sounded like the perfect synthesis of Colony-era In Flames and later Tad Morose. The Danish band blends death metal speed and growled vocals over progressive metal song structures and technicality, and adds power metal's emphasis on melody. There are also "clean" vocals, which allow the band to further cross metal's genre boundaries. This might not seem like as big a deal now, but in 2003 it was a real eye-opener.

2002's Everblack is the band's second album, and it's an extraordinarily high-energy disc. You won't find much in the way of slower songs or acoustic passages; just plenty of fast, aggressive, technical metal. It's not a death metal album per se, but has a lot in common with the Gothenburg melodic death metal sound. I love the combination of fury and melody, especially on songs like "Sieze the Night" and "Bloodrush."

Everblack was a breakthrough album from an innovative metal band. Fans of older In Flames and Soilwork will have no problem getting into this album. Prog/power purists might not be able to handle the death vocals and aggression, but the more adventurous fans might enjoy this quite a bit. Fans of bands like Into Eternity and Scar Symmetry in particular should check out Mercenary, and Everblack is a great album to start with.

Edition Notes: I've seen a couple different versions of Everblack. There's a 10-track version in a standard jewel case as well as a 12-track version that comes in a cheap-looking digipack.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dark and Awesome, April 10, 2004

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CrimsonPunk - See all my reviews

This review is from: Everblack (Audio CD)

This is a great dark metal album. It has a fast pace and lots of energy. Songs like "Everblack" rip and are just plain fun to listen to. "Darkspeed", one of my favorite songs on the album is slower and more serious with both growling vocals and excellent guitar work. I couldn't give this a five because overall alot of the music sounds similar.