LAVERY / MERGLER – Redemption Day (LIM. 500 NUMBERED CD*LIZZY BORDEN*ALIAS*WARLORD)

Arkeyn Steel Records 2025 -  Brandnew Limited Edition 500 Handnumbered CDs (ASR CD-103)

Do you really miss the days when heavy metal had some really big and catchy songs to offer? Are you still in search of a great combination of classic heavy metal with power metal, featuring epic vocals and an exotic touch of good old pomp / hard rock as well? Well, if the answer is yes, it seems we have a full-length album for you.

The Lavery / Mergler project consists of songs that vocalist Giles Lavery (Warlord, Jack Starr, Alcatrazz, Dragonsclaw) and multi-instrumentalist Thomas Mergler have been working on for ages. Their good friend Ashish Shetty offered some of his songwriting and performance magic as well, bringing life to eight magnificent compositions.

Some months ago the project released a digital single called “Ascendant”. We liked the song so much that we lost no time at all and approached Giles Lavery asking if there was more material available. Giles told us that there were 7 more songs in demo form. We proposed to release all eight songs on a full-length and that was it: Lavery and Mergler started to work on the final production of the songs while Angel Priest started designing the front cover.

We are very happy that we can share the amazing final result with you: an album that will take you back to a golden age of melody and top songwriting.

Giles Lavery comments about this full-length: “This album represents mostly a number of songs from our combined past existences, songs which we felt, for a long time, and for one reason or another… deserved a proper recording, presentation and release.”

For fans of LIZZY BORDEN, ICON, Q5, ALIAS (FL/US) and OBSESSION!

Tracklist:

1. Excalibur

2. Eternal Rites

3. Ascendant

4. Your Own Voice

5. Fight You

6. Redemption Day

7. Gold

8. Ghost Of A Memory

Vocals: Giles Lavery

All Instrumentation by Thomas Mergler except:

1 Keyboards Jimmy Kay @The Metal Voice

2-4,6,8 Guitars & Bass: Ashish Shetty,

Thomas Mergler (all distorted rhythms), Vikram Bains.

Drums: Praveen Kumar

1 Words: Jimmy Kay, Music: Thomas Mergler

2-4,6,8 Words and Music by:

Ashish Shetty (with some musical amendements by Thomas Mergler)

5,7 Words: Alexander Krienke (R.I.P.) Music: Thomas Mergler