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May 19, 2008

Atrocities vs Mercy Arms

One of Sydney's noisiest bands, Atrocities, have recently posted on their blog stating that Sydney fashion band (they are signed to the Levis record label) Mercy Arms recently recorded a song that sounded suspiciously similar to some of new Western-ish material.

I'm not sure the last time you heard the Mercy Arms play a western track, but i haven't ever, I've known them for quite some time. It seems quite odd seeing that we had only played our tracks to a certain member of the band just over a week ago that they suddenly adopted this sound.

Atrocities have taken a proactive response to their suspicions by offering the two tracks in question, that were not going to be released until June, as FREE downloads via their MySpace.

The newly recorded Mercy Arms song in question is yet to surface BUT Kirin Callinan, the guitarist from the band, offered this response in the comments on the original blog post:

What the Fuck? We invited you guys up to our mixing session as friends and peers. We don't have to explain ourselves to anyone but let me make it clear to you, Atrocities, we wrote & recorded this song before you had even formed.

Let's hope the two bands kiss and make-up soon before this escaluates into some sort of Tupac vs Biggie type beef. Increase the peace kids.

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