Mid-paced and gruff hardcore from Austin, Texas. About as gritty as a Rorschach album but with the spirit of Revolution Summer DC, Black Mercy barrel through eight songs of the kind of hardcore that isn’t going to make the cover of any of those fake indie magazines. In an era inundated with predictability, records like these remind me that I’m not crazy and true outsider hardcore is where it’s fucking at. –Juan Espinosa (Insect, insectrecords.org / blackmercy.bandcamp.com)