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They was born in Gemona of the Friuli (UD - Italy) on to end of 1979, in full punk period .
Mercenary God are distinguished by the myriad of other Italian groups of the epoch to have
succeeded, during the two years of their short but intense musical history , to perform
themselves out of the confinements of their own region, arriving to make a record reviewed
on the principal musical magazines of the epoch.
In a sort of "competition" with the more structured Great Complotto (PN - Italy), the "Udine"
punk circuit, had already developed it since 1977 around bands in continuous mutation (Metalshock,
Alternatives, Dial 113, Commandos) without however to succeed in getting the creative
and organizational homogeneity of the "Pordenone" scene.
Mercenary God has been from immediately an apart history: geographically isolated, extraneous
to the current post-punks and too much young people and simpletons to capitalize a notoriety
in rapids growth, above all among the employees.
Their music departed from English and American punk of the seventies, avoiding carefully the
dawning militant hardcore, and it mixed to a certain very personal psichedelia garage punctuated
of noise experimentations and good old rock'n'roll.
After a handful of concerts, often completely selfmanaged, the meeting with No Submission (punk
band from Treviso - Italy) and the journalist Claudio Sorge, brought to the realization, in 1981,
of the split-LP "Challenge", produced by the newborn labels record Bootleg Records, by
Marco Melzi. The LP included, besides the Mercenary God and to the No Submission, also
No Suicides from Udine (Italy).
During the same year the recordings of 11 passages were realized, destineted to the first one
band's LP (Burning Generation) and were unpublished up to the publication, happened in
the November of 2004, for worth of the indipendent label Big Star Rolling from Preganziol (TV).
Burning Generation is reviewed all over the world recording an unexpected success among t
he employees and the impassioned ones of the kind.
MERCENARY GOD appear in the documentary on the Italian punk MAMMA DAMMI LA BENZA,
directed by Angelo Rastelli and based on the Luca Frazzi's texts, been broadcasted in 2005
on Sky TV and soon available on DVD.
In the first months of 2006, the label SNAPSMUSIC has produced Mercenary God's Cd-rom
that contains live materials, photographic and unpublished video of the period 1980/1981.
It's scheduled the publication of some Compilation in which will be included Mercenary
God's passages. It's anticipated also the press of Burning Generation on CD.
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