Merciless>MERCYLESS - FRANCE

Abject Offerings – 1992 – Vinyl Solution
Coloured Funeral – 1993 – Century Media
Cold – 1996 – Thunder
Sure To Be Pure – 2000 – System Shock
Live Offerings – 2015 – Great Dane
Pathetic Divinity – 2016 – Kaotoxin
Live In Memory of Agrazabeth – 2017 – Xenokorp
The Mother Of All Plagues – 2020 - Xenokorp
Those Who Reign Below - 2024 - Osmose

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Members
Vocals
Day Off Sin, Undead Prophecies, Fleshgod>>MAX OTERO>>Day Off Sin, Undead Prophecies, Fleshgod

Guitar
Day Off Sin>>Max Otero>>Day Off Sin – Day Off Sin>>Stephane Viard>>Day Off Sin – Dehumanize, Akthesis, Mortuary>>GAUTIER MERKLEN>>Akthesis, Mortuary - Day Off Sin>>MAX OTERO

Bass
Rade Radojcic – Mestema>>Pierre Lopez - Obszön Geschöpf, Dawohl>>Matthieu Merklen>>Obszön Geschöpf, Dawohl - YANN TLIGUI

Drum
Gerald Guenzi – Mestema>>David Kempf>>Elend – Tintin – Coverage, Day Off Sin, Hollow Corp., Affliction Gate, Jizzlobber>>LAURENT MICHALAK>>Affliction Gate, Jizzlobber

Keyboard
Day Off Sin>>Tom Schmitt>>Day Off Sin




History & Biography
Mulhouse's Merciless was formed in 1987 and soon issued a demo called Immortal Harmonies. Early show was with Aleister. Guitarist Stéphane Viard was in the band. He would leave in 2001, return in 2011 and depart again in 2014. 1989’s Visions From The Past followed. The group featured bassist Boris Mandavis at this stage. The band was heard on a single called Vomiting Nausea in 1990, which lead to the group’s full-length period. At this stage, in order to avoid confusion with the many other merciless folks out there, the Frenchmen change monickers to Mercyless. Drummer Gerald Guenzi and bassist Rade Radojcic are featured on the LP. Coloured Funeral was released by Century Media and was produced by Colin Richardson. The group moves on to a French label next and issues a third album in 1996. Pavement Music picks this album up three years later. The group’s last outing is Sure to Be Pure. The band had moved far away from death or even thrash metal and simplified matters. Tom Smith was on keyboards and the band had inserted effects and electronic elements. This was to be the band’s end. Rade Radojcic and Tom Schmitt died in 2015. Instead, the band issued a free digital song in 2016, called Altered Divination, in anticipation of the October 7th release date of the new full-length album, Pathetic Divinity. Mercyless’ The Mother Of All Plagues album was released through Xenokorp on 07.07.2020. The album’s release was cancelled due to COVID-19. It did emerge in August. Sovereign Evil was just a cover version EP in 2020. Xenokorp released 250 copies of 1993 second full-length album Coloured Funeral as a 180g picture 12″ LP on November 19th 2021.

The band opened for Mortuary, played at the fifth edition of Blast Knight, played a show with Sacrifizer and Dionysiaque, opened for Loudblast and appeared at Drakk Fest in 2022. The band played at Symbolic Fest in the Czech Republic in 2024. Those Who Reign Below, the 2024 album by France-based Mercyless, was released through Osmose Productions on October 25, 2024.

Day Off Sin was the band’s electronic project.


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