The album comes on the heels of last year's self-released EP,
Eternal Decay, and sees the band overcome a series of obstacles in the form of lineup changes. Since recording
Vile Extinction, shredder Luke Tasker joined as the band's new guitarist and front man Dale Linsdell commented, "
'It has been tough this past year, with new line up changes/touring and recording the album itself, we are glad to finally unleash it upon the world. This will be 11 tracks of pure terror."
Vile Extinction is lyrically themed on the damnation of humanity. The imminent fate that will consume us all and lead the remnants of civilization to fight for survival. This, of course, is mankind's own doing through unnecessary wars over religion, over-harvesting, over-spawning like a cancerous infection upon the Earth and depleting the world's life force. This is humanity's Vile Extinction...
Vile Extinction was recorded at Stuck on a Name Studios by co-producer Ian Boult and was mixed and mastered by Ajeet Gill at Hellfire Studios. The album artwork was handled by legendary artist Jon Zig and the bands logo was revamped by local artist Gary Ronaldson of Bite Radius Designs.Note to the press - A previous press release erroneously gave an August release date for this album. The official release date in October 7th. We thank you for including that date in all future postings and coverage. 
"When Merciless Terror are not pummeling you with savage drumming then they are berating you with speed freak like riffs and a vocal style that will make lesser music fans cower in fear!" - Destructive MusicOn Sunday, August 11th, MERCILESS TERROR will be performing on the New Blood stage at this year's Bloodstock Festival. The band has also announced several more live dates, including a September tour of Russia. Dates are as follows:
August 11th - BLOODSTOCK FESTIVAL (New Blood Stage)
August 29th - Exeter, UK @ THE CAVERN
August 30th - Brighton, UK @ THE GREEN DOOR STORE
August 31st - Bristol, UK @ The Hatchet Inn
September 7th - Moscow, RU @ Under The Ground
September 8th - Samara, RU @ Zvevda
September 9th - Ufa, RU @ Dance Bar
September 10th - Chelyabinsk, RU @ Club Ozz
September 11th - Perm, RU @ 13 Komnata
September 12th - Kotlas, RU @ Club Pila
September 13th - Arkhangelsk, RU @ Black Wings of Death Fest
September 14th - Vologda, RU @ Iris Club
September 15th - St. Petersburg, RU @ Stoker
