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.
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