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No Mercy Fool!
12+ albums
crossoverhardcorethrash metalmetalcrossover thrash
about
No Mercy was a thrash metal band from Venice, California, the brainchild of guitar player Mike Clark, who later played in Suicidal Tendencies. The band started in 1982 and featured lead vocalist Kevin Guercio, guitarist Mike Clark, bassist Ric "Rancid" Clayton (the artist who designed the Suicidal Tendencies logo as well as the shirts on S.T.'s first album) and drummer Sal Troy. Guercio recorded a few demos and the tracks on the Welcome To Venice (1985) compilation before being fired and replaced by Suicidal Tendencies lead vocalist Mike Muir. Muir signed them to his independent label Suicidal Records. In 1987 No Mercy released their first and only album Widespread Bloodshed Love Runs Red, and were about to record their second album with many new songs already written but Clayton and Troy quit. Instead of recruiting new members, Muir decided to "merge" the two bands by having Clark join Suicidal Tendencies. Clark took over much of the songwriting duties for Suicidal, shifting it's style more to a melodic thrash metal sound similar to No Mercy's and what would have been No Mercy's second album became Suicidal Tendencies' third album, How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today. In 1989 Suicidal Tendencies released the Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déjà Vu compilation. Many of the songs on it, including "Waking The Dead" and "Controlled By Hatred", were re-recorded by Suicidal Tendencies from the Widespread Bloodshed album. Muir and Clark relaunched the
