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	mercenary - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about mercenary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mercenary military service originated in the 14th century, when cash payment on a regular basis was the only means of guaranteeing soldiers' loyalty.
		Most famous of the mercenary armies was the Great Company of the 14th century, which was in effect a glorified protection racket, comprising some 10,000 knights of all nationalities and employing condottieri, or contractors, to serve the highest bidder.
		Article 47 of the 1977 Additional Protocols to the Geneva Convention stipulates that ‘a mercenary shall not have the right to be a combatant or a prisoner of war’ but leaves a party to the Protocols the freedom to grant such status if so wished.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Mercenary (356 words)

	The Ballad of the Mid-Level Artist by Danny Goldberg
		Album royalties, luckily, are not the only stream of income for an artist.
		None of this is to suggest that an artist selling 200,000 albums is living large; she is, however, considerably ahead of 90 percent of Americans.
		If an artist makes an album for $45,000 instead of $115,000, with all other assumptions in the earlier model staying the same, they would begin earning their $1.40 per unit royalty after 150,000 albums sold instead of 200,000.
	www.mercenary.com /balofmidarby.html (2696 words)

	ElectricBasement.com - The Ultimate High Voltage Rock Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Danish band Mercenary has a great track record in Europe and is trying to break through in the United States.
		Mercenary has the ability to be both symphonic and extreme, which is a unique combination and one of the factors that makes the album so good.
		The album was produced by Jacob Hansen, who used to be in the band Invocator and has produced acts like Raunchy, Hatesphere and Mnemic.
	electricbasement.com /absolutenm/templates/review.asp?articleid=198&... (352 words)

	Mercenary - 11 Dreams \| CD Album Reviews \| Blistering.com Heavy Metal & Hard Rock Magazine
		Finally, finally, we have a band that is capable of taking metal to the next level, able to reach those outside of the fold while blowing minds within it.
		Mercenary is an intoxicating mix of melodic death metal, the swirling haze of Ocean Machine-era Devin Townsend, combined with the daring nature of prog and power metal.
		Mercenary’s versatility is by far their strongest suit, even though many of their songwriting choices are smart and swift.
	www.blistering.com /fastpage/fpengine.php/link/1/templateid/8536/tempidx/4/menuid/2 (383 words)

	The Herbaliser: Very Mercenary - Release On Line review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On their third album, "Very Mercenary", the focus is on a jazzy, sample driven hip hop at a thoroughly orchestrated level.
		The sampled strings on "Very Mercenary" are carefully chosen, and never a blasphemous violation on some famous classical composition.
		Despite lacking any obvious highlights, "Very Mercenary" shows that the intentions of The Herbaliser are to further develop the art of hip hop.
	www.releasemagazine.net /Onrecord/orherbaliservm.htm (238 words)

	Mercenary - 11 Dreams (english) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		If you believe that « 11 Dreams » is an album to cure insomnia for the most chronic, your expectations will bring you straight to the heart of a nightmarish chaos.
		Moreover, you’ll find on some occasions on this album the use of multi-layered vocals of the two vocalists but also with only the very talented Mikkel.
		Although the compos found on « 11 Dreams » are very intense and aggressive, they are not at the very least melodic incorporating in their style some power/prog structures.
	www.the-metals-den.com /Fichiers%20HTML/cr_mercenary_11d.htm (160 words)

	Mercenary Forum - Favorite track on 11 Dreams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This is the first Mercenary album I've heard and I'm very impressed.
		A unplugged verson of the album preformed by Vikingarna from Sweeden..
		My favorite on the album is still Firesoul and has been for 6 months now, don´t think that will change i guess, also it´s my favorite track to play live, so there you have it.
	www.mercenary.dk /cgi-bin/forum2/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=288&whichpage=3 (639 words)

	Mercenary-11 Dreams CD Review: Abrasive Rock.com P.O. Box 828, Olympia, WA. 98507 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mercenary is a band I caught a very brief moment of at the ProgPower 4 festival in Atlanta, Georgia a few years back.
		This was right after their Everfl album had come out, which apparently got a lot of praise.
		Though that is a low point on the album (due to the break up of the flow of the album.
	www.abrasiverock.com /cdreviews/mercenary01-31-05.php (368 words)

	Choler Magazine Album Review: Herbaliser Very Mercenary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The album hits some highs and lows along an established mean of music.
		The album features a good range of MC's, from the ultra-smooth Bahamadia, What What, Blade (one of the better MC's out of England), and the brilliantly unique flow of Roots Manuva.
		The lowest point of the album must be "The Sensual Woman," yet another supposedly titillating samplefest involving some sexual self-help woman lecturing on opening up to your lover.
	www.choler.com /reviews/herbaliser_very_mercenary.shtml (365 words)

	Mercenary - 11 Dreams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Despite Mercenary's nearly 15 years of existence, "11 Dreams" is only the bands 3rd.
		Back then the style was pure death metal, whereas the release of the new album marks an almost 100% goodbye to the death metallic inputs.
		Again the production has been done by Danish soundwizard Jacob Hansen, and the result is so perfect, that this album almost marks a new standard for his works.
	www.danishmetalpages.dk /Bands/Mercenary/11dreams.htm (405 words)

	Teufel's Tomb : Brutal Isn't Just A Way Of Life... It's Also Stupid!
		The album continues along the band's musical path, a slow groove oriented death metal album laced with tales of war.
		The drumming is a minor complaint of this album, Alex Thomas' style is too basic, almost Greg Gall-like and a far cry from former skinsman Andy Whale's strong patterns and rolls.
		Apart from that Mercenary is a decently strong release, although the title track, To The Last, Beyond Enemy Lines and Sixth Chapter are a bit bland compared to their previous material on For Victory or 4th Crusade, Zeroed, Laid To Waste, To The Last...
	www.teufelstomb.com /reviews/boltthrower.html (248 words)

	Mercenary - Everblack - review @ Tartareandesire.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mercenary isn't exactly a new band since it was formed back in 1991 but it isn't until now that I have noticed them which is a shame because they are a very good band.
		Prior to this album they have released one mini-cd and one full-length album so they aren't really an unexperienced band.
		The music of Mercenary is hard to describe but one thing for sure is that this is a very atmospheric album while still being brutal and heavy which may sound a little strange.
	www.tartareandesire.com /reviews/mercenary.html (207 words)

	Metal-Rules.com Zine
		Actual time in the studio was 45 days, which is really fast considering what a big-sounding album this is. After we recorded the basic tracks and got back home again, we started writing and coming up with new ideas about what we had just recorded and thinking some things should be changed.
		In post-production, after we finished the album, we went to Ålborg in Denmark to a studio where we spent five days rendering it all and making the solos go around your headjust fooling around with the tracks.
		We had finished the album and Mikkel [Sandager, clean vocals], Morten [Sandager, keyboards] and I were in the studio when Morten had his headphones on and his keyboard in front of him and he looked over at me and said he had this really cool thing, so I told him to play it.
	www.metal-rules.com /zine/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=117&Itemid=54 (5798 words)

	Mercenary Forum - Favorite track on 11 Dreams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I have now been listening quite a lot to your album, and I must say that the track Firesoul is the best I've ever heard from your band.
		Fire Soul is with out a doubt my new favorite, one of the best tracks this year so far.
		So Mercenary, now we only need to hear which songs YOU prefer....
	www.mercenary.dk /cgi-bin/forum2/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=288&whichpage=3 (803 words)

	Seventh Realm reviews Bolt Thrower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This is not too say that Mercenary is a bad album, it’s just not on the level of those previous two landmark records.
		On Mercenary, the vocals are drowned in the mix, barely comprehensible and striking fear into the heart of no one.
		Mercenary and For Victory took this concept further, looking at this from the individual’s perspective.
	www.geocities.com /fallenempire2000/trendy/boltthrower.html (655 words)

	Mercenary \| Interviews & Features \| Blistering.com Heavy Metal & Hard Rock Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The best album to emerge from the underground in roughly 10 years comes in the form of 11 Dreams by Mercenary.
		We had the strongest belief that this album was something else, so we borrowed a lot of money with hopes that someone will pick it up.
		Next album will be a bit broader, a bit more aggressive, and a bit more melodic.
	www.blistering.com /fastpage/fpengine.php/link/1/templateid/9021/tempidx/5/menuid/3 (1255 words)

	Mercenary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Album was mixed in October 2003 and we´re currently checking out different masterings for it.
		Musically the album sounds bigger, better and more unique compared to Everfl (our last album), also the production costs have almost doubled, but at the end of the day it is worth it really...
		The music has broadened a lot on the new album, we added more synths, more uptempo to some songs, the drumming is way more aggressive than everfl the guitar riffs are more catchy and classical also.
	www.danishmetalpages.dk /Interviews/Mercenary280104.htm (1449 words)

	Morrigan's Pit - metal webzine
		For the first time I heard of Mercenary back when they released "Everfl" and I remember there's been quite a lot of talk going on when "11 Dreams" came out but it wasn't until I saw them as support for Evergrey recently that I actually really got to hear them.
		The album isn't a compromise but the perfect balance between aggression and melody.
		Or just listen to the title track "11 Dreams" which perhaps doesn't represent the album as a whole that well (less aggression) but cannot be much better anyway.
	www.morrigans-pit.org /mp/cd_mercenary_11dreams.php (380 words)

	Mercenary-11 Dreams Interview: Abrasive Rock.com P.O. Box 828, Olympia, WA. 98507 (360)789-0703 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		So in post production after the album was recorded we took the tracks we recorded for this dreams song and just moved it up to the AM3D studio and spent like 6 days rendering it to 3D its very complicated go to AM3D.com to get somemore details on that.
		Kral: Ahh that's a good question, through my dreams the concept of the red line going through this album is written out of you know sometimes you wake up in the morning and you can remember certain images from the dram you had last night.
		So we just really want to go out and play this album to the audience, we're all about playing live the album is good but live is way better.
	www.abrasiverock.com /interviews/mercenary03-14-05.php (1562 words)

	CoC : Mercenary - Everblack : Review
		Mercenary play with a crunch and bassy pulse alongside twin vocal parts, the bassist providing the distorted vocals and the high-pitched metal vocalist also performing his role adequately.
		The mood is either aggressive and dark or dark and melancholic but this album is rather un-progressive.
		Most of the phrasing is rather generic and similar and though it maintains the same level of intensity, once you are used to the impact of the riffs, you don't feel much more throughout the album.
	www.chroniclesofchaos.com /Articles.aspx?id=2-2406 (460 words)

	Mercenary
		Metal music takes a lot of time and effort to do and if you try to tailor make it, it will be outdated when the album is finally released.
		So to some extent we were a bit surprised about the strength of the album.
		It’s sort of surreal but at the same time you can totally relate to them and they can have a lot of different meanings affected by who is reading them.
	www.adrenalinfanzine.com /mercenary.html (1145 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The album was produced by Jacob Hanson (Raunchy and Hatesphere) who was
		Mercenary is a band that has everything needed to become one of the icons
		seeing this album in many Top 3 of 2005, and I won't be surprised.
	www.mercenary.dk /brasil.asp (362 words)

	Mercenary
		Mercenary are one of the most promising bands.
		Their new release "Everfl" is an incredible album that anyone should listen to understand how really heavy death music should be played nowadays!!!
		M: Mercenary is one of the top acts to emerge from Denmark ever.
	www.grande-rock.com /Mercenary.htm (877 words)

	CD Baby: K SMOOTH: Mr. Mercenary Smooth One
		After two years of grindin', the mercenary of the rap group Inner City Hoodlumz, brings to you his self-titled debut album, "Mr.
		Mercenary Smooth One is one of those classical cd's.
		Mercenary Smooth One is a track that will get you bobbin your head and appreciating K Smooth's talent.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/ksmooth (590 words)

	THE METAL OBSERVER - Interview - MERCENARY - Online Mär. 2005
		MERCENARY, heimisch in der Stadt Aalborg in Dänemark, sollten jetzt zu einer Macht werden vor der man sich in Acht nehmen muß.
		Das vorige Album hatte ja eher ein Rockfeeling.
		Wir hatten für das Album hohe Erwartungen, aber abgesehen von sehr guten Rezensionen schien nicht viel zu geschehen.
	www.metal-observer.com /articles.php?lid=2&sid=4&id=7692 (2675 words)

	Mercenary ::: Century Media Records Bands Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Recruiting additional clean-vocals-style singer Mikkel Sandager and his brother Morten on keys changed the band’s sound drastically towards a new and rather unusual combination of melody and aggression, which lead to praising media feedback all over the globe for their challenging and quality delivery.
		MERCENARY gradually evolved their sound into a fusion of diverse inspirations ranging from progressive and ‘classic’ metal to (Swedish) melodic death metal.
		Marking the debut of newly recruited drummer Mike Park and lead guitarist Martin Buus, the new MERCENARY album “11 Dreams” showcases a new found band energy and crystal clear production courtesy of Jacob Hansen (Invocator, Raunchy, Hatesphere, etc.) as well as suitably atmospheric artwork courtesy of Niklas Sundin (Dark Tranquillity, In Flames, Naglfar, etc.).
	www.centurymedia.net /bands/mercenary.htm (349 words)

	siN's Metal News \| 'pure METAL news' \| SMNnews.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I was blown away by her enthusiasm for “11 Dreams”; she had it as her album of the year.
		We have to see what people think when the album is out, and of course, the better it does, the more chances there are.
		Earlier we had album of the month, and with “Everfl” we had ‘Album of the year’.
	www.smnnews.com /interviews/merc.php (1549 words)

	The Official Bomp Records History Lesson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		One result was a feature article and history of Edmunds in Bomp; another was that Greg travelled all over Europe on tour with the band in 1975 and '76, when he was to meet pretty much everybody who was at the ground floor of the emerging punk scene.
		At the same time, he was souring on the music scene, which had become corporate and mercenary, a far cry from the early days of cult bands and punk.
		One of the projects that has passed through Sire during his tenure there had been Lenny Kaye 's "Nuggets" album, which had been deleted on Elektra when Sire reissued it in 1976, just in time for it to became a huge influence on all the new punk bands.
	www.bomp.com /Facts.html (3878 words)

	mercenary 2d interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mercenary strikes back after two years with the AMAZING “11 Dreams”.
		If there is one word to describe this album that would be “perfection”.
		In the new album we have a lot of clean vocals, a lot of melody, technical parts, atmospheric parts.
	www.thetempleofmetal.gr /interviews/mercenary/mercenary_int_2.htm (1392 words)

	Crowgrrrl's Perch 01-30-05
		Mercenary ’s new album, 11 Dreams, is getting ready to hit the streets here in the U.S. (it’s been out for awhile in Europe), and The Crowgrrl suggests the minute it does for everyone to grab a copy.
		Hailing from Denmark, Mercenary ’s line-up is Mikkel Sandager with the clean vox, more vocals from bassist Hans "Kral" Andersen, stellar fretwork from Jakob Mølberg and Martin Buus, keyboards/piano and backing vox provided by Morten Sandager, and Mike Park kicking the skins.
		I’m still very surprised every time I put on the album (which is like once a month right now because I had been listening to it for 400 or 500 times).
	www.crowgrrl.com /reviews/013005perch.htm (4360 words)

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