{"id":13157,"date":"2020-06-01T16:51:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T16:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=13157"},"modified":"2020-06-01T16:52:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T16:52:10","slug":"glam-punks-the-mercy-kills-release-their-newly-remastered-single-alone-on-1st-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2020\/06\/01\/glam-punks-the-mercy-kills-release-their-newly-remastered-single-alone-on-1st-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Glam Punks THE MERCY KILLS release their newly remastered single &#8216;Alone&#8217; on 1st June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check out the video here:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Mercy Kills - Alone - Single - Video\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6AJzQ5vqhGk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hailing from Melbourne, Australia,&nbsp;<strong>THE MERCY KILLS<\/strong>&nbsp;are back, with the release of their newly remastered single,&nbsp;<strong>&#8216;Alone&#8217;<\/strong>, out June 1st.<br>A re-worked version of a band and live crowd favourite, the track is taken from their debut album&nbsp;<strong>Happy To Kill You&nbsp;(2013)<\/strong>&nbsp;and has been remastered and re-released as a single for those reaching out digitally in COVID-19 isolation. The message is simple, \u201cYou can\u2019t make it alone!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LISTEN NOW: Stream\/buy &#8216;Alone&#8217;&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/socialfamilyrecords.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0769272353712e30e2a31cd25&amp;id=fa2ceeb12d&amp;e=94be391498\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ABOUT THE MERCY KILLS<\/strong><br>Mix two parts dirty rock with two parts sleaze punk and you get a four shot cocktail called&nbsp;<strong>THE MERCY KILLS<\/strong>&nbsp;featuring&nbsp;<strong>Mark E<\/strong>&nbsp;(Vox\/Guitar),&nbsp;<strong>Jen X Costello<\/strong>&nbsp;(Bass\/Vox),&nbsp;<strong>Nathalie Gell\u00e9<\/strong>&nbsp;(Guitar\/Vox) and&nbsp;<strong>Josh Black<\/strong>&nbsp;(Drums).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their tastes in music, the desire to write great songs and blast out a killer live show were the key factors shared by this four-piece outfit. &nbsp;<strong>THE MERCY KILLS<\/strong>&nbsp;took their name from a line in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, &#8220;It was a mercy killing&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;Take the energy from \u2018Appetite for Destruction\u2019 era&nbsp;<strong>Guns \u2018N\u2019 Roses,<\/strong>&nbsp;mix it with some&nbsp;<strong>\u2018Ramones\u2019<\/strong>&nbsp;style punk, a lot of energy and you have&nbsp;<strong>\u2018\u00adTHE MERCY KILLS\u2019<\/strong>\u2026\u201d<\/em><br>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<em><strong>SF Media (Brisbane)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;Their dramatic set included flaming drumsticks and power riffs, worthy of international rock stars&#8221;<\/em>. &#8211; &nbsp;<em><strong>Live Music (Adelaide)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;Should you happen across a flyer with&nbsp;<strong>\u2018THE MERCY KILLS\u2019&nbsp;<\/strong>written anywhere on it, make note of the date, and keep the night free\u201d. &#8211;<\/em><em><strong>SF Media (Melbourne)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;Big, brash, and bold were \u2018<strong>THE MERCY KILLS\u2019<\/strong>. The band\u2019s energy screeched like a rogue \u201868 Camaro right until the very end\u2026&#8221; &nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<strong>The Music (Sydney)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/themercykills\/https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/the_mercy_kills\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/THEMERCYKILLShttps:\/\/goldenrobotrecords.com\/golden-robot-records\/the-mercy-kills\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/themercykills\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/themercykills\/https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/the_mercy_kills\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/THEMERCYKILLShttps:\/\/goldenrobotrecords.com\/golden-robot-records\/the-mercy-kills\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/the_mercy_kills\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/themercykills\/https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/the_mercy_kills\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/THEMERCYKILLShttps:\/\/goldenrobotrecords.com\/golden-robot-records\/the-mercy-kills\/\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/THEMERCYKILLS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/themercykills\/https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/the_mercy_kills\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/THEMERCYKILLShttps:\/\/goldenrobotrecords.com\/golden-robot-records\/the-mercy-kills\/\">https:\/\/goldenrobotrecords.com\/golden-robot-records\/the-mercy-kills\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the video here:\u00a0 Hailing from Melbourne, Australia,&nbsp;THE MERCY KILLS&nbsp;are back, with the release&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[1064],"class_list":["post-13157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-news","tag-the-mercy-kills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13159,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13157\/revisions\/13159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}