Mercy - Swedish Metal|Session 1981 Vinyl Color:Transparent Red Lion Productions and Lysergic Sound

Lion Productions and Lysergic Sound Distributors are excited to announce they have solved the mystery of this magical recording: it is the work of the iconic Wrecking Crew and other famed musicians of the era — assembled by Grammy-winning composer Allyn Ferguson — and recorded over four sessions in the summer of 1968

with the album featuring re-recordings of "Ride the Wild" and "It's a Hectic World" from the band's first 7"

“Sweet Time” comes across like Ram Jam‘s “Black Betty” supercharged with simple yet effective song structure

with the majority of bass parts on the album being written and played by multi-instrumental magician Josh Menashe with occasional pitch in from songwriter Dylan Sizemore

The band has at times been called one of the most influential European heavy metal bands of the 1980s

Mercy - Swedish Metal|Session 1981 Vinyl Color:Transparent Red Lion Productions and Lysergic SoundMercy: Sweden. With the untimely death of Andrija Veljaca in 2005, the legacy of Swedish metal pioneers Mercy was sealed and secured. Mercy are among those few bands which explored and conquered multiple styles of metal. Guided by Veljaca, the only consistent member of the band, Mercy began as a youthful, raging Heavy Metal outfit before shifting toward a heavier doom sound by the mid 1980s. Indeed, for many unfamiliar with Mercys early material, the