Returning with its first new music in ten years, Mercy Ties announces the March 28th release of its new album, Reflections and Criticisms, on The Ghost Is Clear Records. A new official visualizer for the album’s first single, “Love All the People,” is now streaming. Founded in Seattle, Washington, in 2010, Mercy Ties’ intense brand of hardcore initially bore trademarks of screamo, then quickly spiralled into something darker and more lethal. A review from Invisible Oranges in that early period described the sound as “contorted, noise rock-indebted metalcore;” Decibel Magazine called it “unsettling, unpredictable and distinctive.” Citing bands like Breather Resist, Converge, Pageninetynine, and hometown heroes Botch as reference points, Mercy Ties quickly shaped itself into a standout of a ...