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DOWNLOAD: Sweet Cobra - "Mercy" (MP3)

Mat Arluck is gone but not forgotten. The guitarist's legacy lives on, as Arluck left his dirty fingerprints all over the new LP by Sweet Cobra. Mercy (pictured above) hits store shelves on Tuesday (9/28) via Black Market Activities. The album, which mixes moments of driving and riffy hardcore with Torche's alternating sugary sweetness/guitar thunder, features the melodic burner/title track "Mercy" available for download above. Reminds me a bit of Hull as well... multi-part vocal harmonies.

Currently, the Chicago band has no plans to make it out east, but will play a pair of dates with the great Young Widows: Friday (9/24) at Mulligans in Grand Rapids, Michigan and a hometown Record Release show on 10/8 at Beat Kitchen.

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Mat Arluck of Sweet Cobra

Our hearts are broken. We lost a member of the Seventh Rule family today. RIP Mat Arluck. You will be missed more than you'll ever know. -[Seventh Rule Twitter]

It's a sad day, as the metal community mourns the loss of Mat Arluck of Sweet Cobra to cancer. For the uninitiated, the band released their killer album Bottom Feeder on Seventh Rule this year, and was preparing to release a new (and completed) album for Black Market Activities. Though Arluck had left the band a year ago, he contributed to said new LP, Mercy, which was recorded at Volume Studios in their hometown of Chicago by Sanford Parker and mixed at God City Studios by Kurt Ballou. The band plans to continue on and commented on the loss to the Chicago Reader. That statement and a video below...

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