“NinetyNinePagesOfBotchInaRow” was how I lately described Seattle’s Mercy Ties to a curious pal. He shook his head, after doing what he thought was an imperceptible double take, gave me the standard suspicious side-eye earlier than asking me to “decode, dumbass.” I set the file straight by laying out the influences that went into Mercy Ties’ new album, Reflections and Criticisms, as authentic wave screamo ragers, Pageninetynine, evil math rockers Botch and French noiseniks Birds in Row, punctuated by a snarky, “You requested.”
Mercy Ties initially fashioned in 2010 and have been largely silent because the touring cycle that adopted the discharge of 2015’s Correct Corruption. However what’s a decade within the grand scheme of issues? Nicely, for guitarist Trevor Bebee, Andre Sanabria and drummer Chris Pereira, it was time taken out to become involved in aggressive powerlifting, be part of Ex Every part as frontman and relocate to Europe, respectively. The Mercy Ties bug began biting as soon as once more and after a sequence of house and transcontinental writing/recording classes, the band are again with their second full-length set for launch on March twenty eighth through The Ghost is Clear Information.
In celebration of their return to energetic obligation and the pending launch of Reflections and Criticisms, at present we’re presenting a glimpse into the brand new file with an airing of the observe “A New Hell Each Day.”
Says Sanabria concerning the music: “The second we get up we study of a brand new hell each day. We’re complicit, like digital serfs toiling and sharing atrocities, catastrophes, scandals with each other; gathered all through the varied fields of social media — whereas these dwelling in Gaza, Sudan, Yemen, Ukraine, even right here within the US, expertise it in actual time as their day by day existence. It’s simpler for others to simply tune it out, give attention to themselves, their family members, an empty pursuit of wealth. That’s precisely what the ruling class needs; supplication, division and total anti-intellectualism. The important message on this music is that class consciousness is the one weapon we now have, and if we as a collective won’t stand up towards the parasitic billionaire class and demise pushed crypto-fascist evangelicalism, we’re doomed; not as a nation, or a tradition, however as a species.”
“A New Hell Each Day” lyrics:
man will quickly be an afterthought / we’re all on borrowed time / dangerous luck is infinite / life had an amazing second / mankind ruined it / in solitude we don’t want mediation / if we select the lie we should endure / these are the results / a fever within the blood / now make your kids witness the horrors you assemble / trapped in a world legislated by zealots that imagine in mystic realms and fables / 1000’s of youngsters slaughtered / now say to us that any god price serving would condone such atrocities / we’re condemned to observe all of it unfold / rend the heavens / beget spoil / ignite the world / finish it
You can even try the band’s return to the stage subsequent month:
Mercy Ties 2025 tour w/ Throes:
April 18 – Boise, ID @ Realms
April 19 – San Francisco, CA @ Neck of the Woods
April 20 – Fresno, CA @ Damaging Warehouse
April 21 – Los Angeles, CA @ Genghis Cohen
April 22 – Bakersfield, CA @ 415 BKFD
April 23 – Sacramento, CA @ Cafe Colonial
April 24 – Eugene, OR @ Wandering Goat
April 25 – Portland, OR @ Commonwealth
April 26 – Seattle, WA @ The Black Lodge
About this run of dates, guitarist Bebee factors out, “When the band started speaking about potential reveals this 12 months, our good pal Wealthy Corridor — all the time a robust supporter of our band — stepped in to assist us e-book a tour. We’re grateful for the whole lot he did, not only for us however for all the dwell music business and scene. In honor of his reminiscence, the band will probably be donating a portion of our proceeds from this tour to his household. On this trek we will probably be joined by a few of our oldest buds Throes and we are able to’t wait to get within the van with them. We hope to see many associates, previous and new.”
Picture: Kayla Tarkalson Bebee
