Mercy Fall Prove They're Not Just Another Rock Band

by Robert Frezza
Static Noise
http://www.staticnoise.net

Being from a small town—Flagstaff, Arizona to be exact--doesn’t mean you won’t make it in the big town of America. Just ask Nate Stone, lead singer of Mercy Fall, a new band on the rock horizon on Atlantic Records. What makes Mercy Fall different from all the other mainstream rock acts right now? Read on to find out.

Members of Mercy Fall paths’ crossed later in life, but are all originally from Flagstaff, Arizona. “What’s strange is that Flagstaff is a really small town, that you know most of the people there,” says Stone. “The members of the band met later on in life. It was a weird thing when we did meet, because it was fortunate that we found each other so we could make it as a band. You wouldn’t think that would happen in a small town like Flagstaff.”

Small town or not, the guys of Mercy Fall are hoping to make in the big time, especially with Howard Benson on board, they are definitely on the right track. “When we worked with our producer, Howard Benson (P.O.D. and Cold), he was a super cool guy. He had the same visions that the band had as what a record should be and what a song should sound like. He was like ‘you guys are selling an emotional event’. We knew he had a big history with a lot of big bands, but instead of being nervous about it, we were really excited about it instead. We got the opportunity to make a really good record.”

Mercy Fall list Pearl Jam and Soundgarden as some of their influences. So, in a matter of speaking nineties grunge does still live on today. “The very first rock record I ever heard was from Pearl Jam (Ten) and I couldn’t believe you could do that with music. Soundgarden’s Bad Motor Finger was just ridiculous as well.”

What makes Mercy Fall different? The band claims that it’s their influences that make them who they are. “It’s a desire to write songs like our influences, such as Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. I don’t think our sound is much different from other rock bands today, if so we kind of got lucky.”