''Merciless'' is the eighth studio album by American heavy metal band

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. It was released on November 22, 2024, via

Century Media Records Century Media Records is a German heavy metal record label with offices in Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom. In August 2015, Century Media was acquired by Sony Music for US$17 million. Background Century Media was founded by R ...

. Production was handled by

Ice-T Tracy Lauren Marrow (born February 16, 1958), known professionally as Ice-T (or Ice T), is an American rapper and actor. He is active in both hip hop music, hip hop and heavy metal music, heavy metal. Ice-T began his career as an underground r ...

, Vincent Price and

Will Putney Will Putney (born May 29, 1983) is an American record producer and musician based in New Jersey. He is the guitarist and co-founder of deathcore band Fit for an Autopsy, as well as the guitarist of metalcore supergroup End, and hardcore punk su ...

. It features guest appearances from Corpsegrinder, Howard Jones, Joe Bad, and

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Background

The album is based on vocalist

's love of horror movies, a theme he decided on while in New Jersey during the

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"I was watching horror movies, serial killers, all this s—. So before you know it, there’s a song called ‘The Purge.’ There’s a song called ‘Psychopath.’ I’m looking at this new election coming. I’m like, ‘these motherf—s are gangbanging.’ All these different topics are coming to my head, and we make the next record."

Track listing

Personnel

Body Count *

– lead vocals *

Ernie C Ernie Cunnigan (born June 10, 1959), better known by his stage name Ernie C, is an American musician and record producer, best known as the guitarist of rap metal band Body Count. Early life Cunnigan grew up in Compton, California and attended ...

– lead guitar *

Juan of the Dead ''Juan of the Dead'' () is a 2010 Spanish-Cuban zombie comedy film written and directed by Alejandro Brugués. A Spanish-Cuban co-production between La Zanfoña Producciones (Spain) and Producciones de la 5ta Avenida (Cuba) involving the part ...

– rhythm guitar *Vincent Price – bass, backing vocals, keyboards *Will "Ill Will" Dorsey Jr. – drums *Sean E Sean – backing vocals, sampler *Tracy "Little Ice" Marrow Jr. – backing vocals Additional musicians *

George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher George Fisher (born July 8, 1970), better known by his stage name Corpsegrinder, is an American death metal vocalist who is the lead singer of Cannibal Corpse, Paths of Possession and the supergroup Serpentine Dominion. ''Loudwire'' placed Fi ...

– additional vocals (track 3) * Joe Bad – additional vocals (track 4) * Howard Jones – additional vocals (track 6) *

– voice (track 10) *

– additional guitar (tracks 1–7, 9–12) *

David Gilmour David Jon Gilmour ( ; born 6 March 1946) is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter who is a member of the rock band Pink Floyd. He joined in 1967, shortly before the departure of the founder member Syd Barrett. By the early 1980s, Pink F ...

– additional guitar solo (track 8) Production *Ice-T – production *Vincent Price – production *Will Putney – production, engineering, mixing, mastering *Erik Motta – cover photo *Tamara Llenas Navarro – live photos *Alex Solca – back cover photo *Carsten Drescher – layout

Charts

References

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