NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – March 26, 2026
“The Saint” of Mosh Pits! Vancouver’s WITHOUT MERCY Unleashes Explosive Video For New EP “Infinite Loss” Out May 2026
|
|
Top – L -R – Alex Friis – Vocals, Matt Helie – Drums, Ryan Loewen – Bass
Bottom – DJ Temple – Guitars
Photo Credit: Shimon Photo – http://www.shimonphoto.com
Vancouver, Canada’s extreme groove metallers Without Mercy return with “Infinite Loss,” a new three‑track EP arriving May 8th, 2026, marking the group’s most focused and intentional work to date. Alongside the announcement, the band is unveiling the EP’s first single, “The Saint,” accompanied by a new music video.
Recorded after uprooting their lives and spending ten days living inside the studio environment, “Infinite Loss” captures a period of intense pressure, creative risk, and uncompromising honesty. For the first time in their career, the band left home to make a record, crossing borders, abandoning routine, and committing fully to the process.
“There was no comfort, no distance, and no way to step away. That isolation mattered. It stripped everything down to what was essential. This record exists because we chose to be uncomfortable, to argue honestly, and to stay in the room until it felt right,” says guitarist DJ Temple.
“The Saint” marks the band’s boldest departure yet. Shaped collaboratively between the band and their producer, John Douglass, the track pushes Without Mercy into unfamiliar territory while remaining grounded in the identity they’ve built since 2007.
The song explores the question at the heart of artistic evolution: How do you grow without abandoning the foundation that brought you here? Rather than discarding their roots, the band tests their flexibility, stretching them to the breaking point.
Lyrically, “The Saint” confronts the idea of being enslaved by the land, “all the different whips, and all the different backs.” Musically, it leans into space, tension, and unpredictable movement, challenging the band’s established direction and ultimately earning its place on the EP by expanding its emotional range.
“Infinite Loss” is built around three songs that the band describes not as singles, but as statements. Each track was chosen only after surviving months of scrutiny, revision, and honest critique, both internally and from its producer. Lyrically, the EP centers on the feeling of being hunted repeatedly by shifting, modern pressures: economic strain, identity, expectation, time, and survival. There is no single antagonist. The threat changes shape, but never disappears.
Musically, the record mirrors that tension through weight, repetition, and restraint. Riffs sit long enough to suffocate. Rhythms feel physical and deliberate. The aggression is controlled rather than explosive, creating a sense of inevitability rather than chaos. The result is a release that is confrontational without theatrics, an unfiltered snapshot of a band choosing discipline over convenience and honesty over expectation.
The EP’s artwork was created in collaboration with longtime friend Diego Gedoz de Souza, who helped refine the visual direction after early concepts fell short. The final image, a desolate forest with a massive void carved into the earth, reflects the EP’s emotional core: inevitability, loss, and the pull toward something inescapable.
Recommended for fans of Meshuggah, Alluvial, Decapitated, Fit For An Autopsy, and Gojira, watch and listen to the video for the first single, “The Saint,” via its premiere on NoCleanSinging HERE.
Due out on May 8th, 2026, EP “Infinite Loss” is available for pre-save at https://ffm.to/infiniteloss
|
|
Track Listing:
1. Infinite Loss – (4:15)
2. The Saint – (3:39)
3. Glass – (3:16)
EP Length: 11:11
EP and Live Band Line Up:
Alex Friis – Vocals
DJ Temple – Guitars
Ryan Loewen – Bass
Matt Helie – Drums
Formed in 2007, Without Mercy is Alex Friis (vocals), DJ Temple (guitars), Ryan Loewen (bass), and Matt Helie (drums). Together, they built their identity on pushing boundaries and refusing comfort. Their sound fuses the weight of groove with the intensity of extreme metal, earning them stages alongside Cattle Decapitation, Aborted, Death Angel, and more.
Their discography includes All Else Fails (2007), Without Mercy (2009), Reborn/Mouichido (2014/2016), and Seismic (2020), each release expanding their technical precision, emotional depth, and genre‑defying approach.
The band’s evolution is rooted in contrast: four musicians with different influences learning to protect their differences rather than smooth them out. The result is a sound that is dynamic, unyielding, nuanced, textural, and intentional.
More info:
https://www.withoutmercyband.com/
https://www.facebook.com/withoutmercyband
https://www.instagram.com/withoutmercyband
-30-
“Without Mercy’s New Album Is A Whirlwind of Sonic Punishment” – The Pit (Seismic – 2020)
“Right from the start (Uprooted), Without Mercy set the bar high for their extremity, aiming for something far more chaotic. The opening is a mix between the pure grind-death akin to that of Cattle Decapitation, and the math metal sound of Protest the Hero.”- Metal Injection (Seismic – 2020)
“pay witness (I Break The Chain) to their thrashy death metal a la Cattle Decapitation, Meshuggah and Decapitated and watch as they adorn the blast beats and breakdowns with beer guts and brogues.” – Decibel Magazine (Seismic – 2020)
“…To put it simply: the band does an incredible job of blending their grooves with their growls. Between segments of death, doom, and shreddy guitar solos that absolutely slay, there are moments of satisfying melodic breakdowns, and cutting riffs to die for… Seismic is full of lyrics that hold true and poignant meaning while using powerful imagery to evoke epic scenes of turbulent life and painful decay in the minds eye… ground-shaking album. 4/5” – Metal-Rules (Seismic – 2020)
“Overall, two elements really struck me here…one was the level of intensity, and the other the level of musicianship from the band. How they can remain unsigned is a mystery to me. They play with such a tight synergy that it’s almost like they can finish each other’s sentences before they even open their mouth.” – Metal Temple (Seismic – 2020)
“While the heavy metal name generator might have had something to do with what this meaty metal unit called themselves, you can’t say it doesn’t fit. Without Mercy are pretty damn *ahem* merciless and to cap that off, their new album is so aptly titled. Seismic…a relentless powerhouse that is akin to tectonic plates smashing into each other. There is no fucking mercy and it’s fucking glorious. Excuse the swearing but that’s how this album makes you feel. It makes you feel like a beast. It makes you feel capable of taking on the world. It’s chunky, it’s thick, it’s chokingly devastating and undoubtedly one to be remembered.” – Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life (Seismic – 2020)
“The thrash-stomp modes on “Worthless” ring like a head-on collision between DECAPITATED and BIOHAZARD with a dash of power metal thrown into the solo section. Alex Friis wrings his throat to huge extremes, hopefully leaving tissue intact as he hits agonizing squeals while throwing indictments against former band members — guess on your own who that might entail. DJ Temple’s guitar work on “Worthless” is terrific..” (Mouchido EP 2016) – Blabbermouth
“Vancouver’s Without Mercy is a prime example of how putting in a little bit of elbow grease can result in advantageous outcomes. The quartet play their brand of melodic, groove-laden death metal independently, but refuse to remain held back by a lack in the promotional and money machine backing departments. Over the course of a decade or so, the band has experienced the same highs and lows as most others, but their successes – which include a small handful of recordings, a bigger handful of tours, and appearances in video games – have been felt at a deeper clip because they’ve essentially managed everything themselves.” (Mouchido EP 2016) – Decibel Magazine
“In a word, the music rips. And it also thunders, and punches so fast and hard that it’s like a jackhammer-sized nail gun ramming bolts into concrete at high speed while the operator howls and shrieks for all he’s worth, segmented by a start-stop breakdown that will give your skull a good rattling and lit up by swarming guitar flurries that are as fiery as the torches in the video (Burn).” (Mouchido EP 2016) – No Clean Singing
—
ASHER MEDIA RELATIONS
Jon Asher – Music Publicist
#.514.581.5780
jon[@]ashermediarelations[.]com
Facebook – Asher Media Relations
Instagram – AsherMedia
Tweet – AsherMedia
ashermediarelations.com 