{"id":201,"date":"2026-03-07T11:02:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/theoutcast\/theoutcast\/reviews\/boltthrower-mercenary\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T11:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:02:55","slug":"boltthrower-mercenary","status":"publish","type":"reviews","link":"https:\/\/adkoi.com\/theoutcast\/reviews\/boltthrower-mercenary\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolt*Thrower &#8211; &#8220;Mercenary&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s about freakin time! Hmmmm&#8230;.. what can I say? Bolt T. has been a long time favorite of mine since the beginning, although I like the albums after &#8220;Realm&#8230;&#8221; better  than the two previous ones. When I heard that Karl was back in the league, that made it  even better, but I think he has left again, which sucks. Like the Death review, what can I  say? This is Bolt Thrower! Same crushing riffs that seems to pulverize everything else  coming out of my stereo these days. You have bands that change their sound with time,  while you have other bands who stick to what they do best: play crushing death metal  with a lot of melody! Anyone looking for some heavy and intelligent oriented crushing  death metal that will not disappoint must get this and all albums by this magnificent band  now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s about freakin time! Hmmmm&#8230;.. what can I say? Bolt T. has been a long time favorite of mine since the beginning, although I like the albums after &#8220;Realm&#8230;&#8221; better than the two previous ones. 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