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Bolt Thrower - Mercenary



8.3 | 315 votes |
Release date: 1998
Style: Death metal

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18 want it


01. Zeroed
02. Laid To Waste
03. Return From Chaos
04. Mercenary
05. To The Last...
06. Powder Burns
07. Behind Enemy Lines
08. No Guts, No Glory
09. Sixth Chapter
10. Infiltrator [limited edition digipack bonus]

Additional info
Label: Metal Blade Records

Recorded & Mixed at Chapel Studios, UK December 1997/January 1998. Engineered by Ewan Davies & Jim Anderson.
Produced by Bolt Thrower & Ewan Davies.
Sleeve by Peter Archer.

Guest review by
deadone
Rating:
6.0
Album number six finds British death metal stalwarts Bolt Thrower sounding tired and worn. They had perfected their sound with 1994's ?For Victory but now, four years later, found themselves replicating the same formula without as much success.

All the elements that make a Bolt Thrower album are there: dense guitars playing groovy riffs and Karl Willets' deep guttural vocals spewing war obsessed lyrics. But there is a certain spark missing that relegates Mercenary to a mediocre affair.

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published 16.01.2014 | Comments (3)

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11.04.2010 - 21:18
Rating: 8
Deadmeat
Necrobutcher
Nice album, at first i loved it but now i think its good but not perfect.
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Υou've sold your human essence to the cold world of dead and empty things... You're SOLD!
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11.08.2015 - 22:28
Rating: 7
Joppe
Steelemeister
Good, but somewhat boring. Songs could use more speed IMO.
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My vision is augmented
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14.08.2015 - 05:00
Lord_Regnier

Boring album.

This one and "Honour-Valour-Pride" are the only Bolt Thrower albums I don't have because I find them sub-par and boring.
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"Why would we fear death, when life is so much more frightening?"
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27.09.2015 - 06:48
BlueMobius
Account deleted
The more I have listened to this album over the past few years, the better it gets. Mercenary may be one of my favorite Bolt Thrower albums. Sixth Chapter is soooo heavy.
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30.08.2016 - 19:03
Rating: 9
NocturnalStalker
Metal Addict
Mercenary was my first Bolt Thrower album so it definitely has an element of nostalgia. Still, even after listening to all the other records of this band, I find it to be the one I enjoy the most. Also No Guts, No Glory is my favourite Bolt Thrower song ever.
My picks: Zeroed, Laid To Waste, Mercenary, Powder Burns, Behind Enemy Lines, No Guts, No Glory.
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"And we are not who we think we are
We are who we're afraid to be"
- Lux Occulta "The Opening of Eleventh Sephirah"
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20.06.2021 - 15:02
Rating: 7
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
I can understand why most people consider this album a bit boring, especially when you compare it to their previous albums, the songs here are longer than their usual length, they have at this point abolished their grindcore origins. and the outros are a too repetitive imo. Also it's a much slower tempo compared with other Bolt Thrower releases.

I still enjoy the sound overall tho, and the riffs are still pretty good, if a tad bit slow for my liking, the same usual formula, set around war is still here, and the lyrics are good, and it hasn't got any songs I really dislike, despite there being no outstanding tracks either.
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24.08.2021 - 22:11
Rating: 9
Samot

Great album ..i love it .......but anything comes after a perfection like "For Victory" would be ofuscated ....
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Um, Dois, Três, Quatro! Yeah! PORRA!!!
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