Some records are hyped almost years before their release. Others quietly find their way in the world. Most hypes eventually lead to dissapointments whereas between those low key record releases gems are to be found.
There's a lot of talk about the new Defeater record on the other side I have yet to read the first raving review of a record that's already out: Mother Of Mercy's 'Symptoms Of Existence'. After a surprisingly good show in Tilburg at the end of last year I was pretty curious about this record and the band doesn't let me down.
If Mother Of Mercy was around in the nineties they would have deserved a spot somewhere between early Earth Crisis and Intergity. The band plays hardcore with metal influences but stays away from the often duplicated Hatebreed sound.
In fact Mother Of Mercy sounds more like a nineties hardcore band than let's say the latest Earth Crisis. The artwork by Paul Romano sets the place for a record that's not optimistic about human kind, but shows that people into bands like Undertow, Congress and Integrity don't have to rely only on the past for records of their liking.
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