Mercenary God
MERCENARY GOD - italian punk band - 1981
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
Born in Gemona del Friuli (UD Italy) at the end of 1979, in full punk period, the Mercenary God have distinguished herself from several other Italian bands from the same time because they where able, in the two years of their short but intensive musical history, to perform outside the proper region borders, attaining to cut a record reviewed on the top musical magazines in that time.
In some kind of "competition" with the more structured Great Complotto, the friulan punk circuit was developing himself already from 1977 around bands in continuos mutation (Metalshock, Alternative, Dial 113, Commandos), but was not able to get the creative and organizing homogeneity of the pordenonese scene.
The Mercenary God history was from the beginning up for his own: geographically isolated , unconnected to all post-punk trends and too young and ingenuous to capitalize the fast growing celebrity, especially amongst insiders.
Their music was starting from the English and American punk from the seventies, accurate avoiding the rising militant hardcore, and mix himself to a certain very personally psychedelically garage, dotted with noise experimentation's and good old rocknroll.
After a few concerts, most completely self managed, the meeting with the trevigians No Submission and the reporter Claudio Sorge, brings the realization, in 1981, of the split-LP Challenge, produced by the Marco Melzi's already born Lombard records label Bootleg Records. He record was including, despite the Mercenary God and the No Submission, also the udineses No Suicide.
In the same year 11 track where recorded, destined to the first LP of the band (Burning Generation), kept unpublished until the publication, happened at the end of 2004, thanks to the independent label Big Star Rolling in Preganziol (TV).
