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Recollections features three studio albums with Mercenary on one tripple cd featuring 6 bonus tracks Melodic death metal from Alborg with members from ex-Panzerchrist, Behind the curtain and Obscenity. After struggling for recognition and creative direction throughout the '90s, Denmark's Mercenary finally turned some heads and hit their creative stride with 2004's acclaimed 11 Dreams: a sophisticated mixture of death metal, black metal, power metal and progressive rock tendencies akin to other respected contemporaries like Nevermore, Scar Symmetry and Communic. Not surprisingly, the band strays little from this flexible and fertile formula on that album's impressive follow-up, 2006's The Hours That Remain, finding, in fact, endless new ways to explore their ample possibilities in almost-always exciting new songs, epitomized by heady opener "Redefine Me." The result is that, regardless of their often complex structures and rarely obvious chord progressions, further standout cuts like "My World Is Ending," "This Eternal Instant" and "Obscure Indiscretion" find easy purchase on the listener's brain. ‘Architect Of Lies’ was the bands fifth album overall and the first to include Rene 'Renegade' Pederson on bass and death growls (he replaces founding member Henrik Anderson, who left the band in 2006). Track listing: Disc 1: 11 Dreams Into The Sea Of Dark Desires World Hate Center 11Dreams reDestructDead Firesoul Sharpen The Edges Supremacy v2.0 Music Non Stop Falling Times Without Changes Loneliness 11Dreams-radio edit 11Dreams-3D mix Loneliness-acoustic version Disc 2: The Hours That Remain – 2006 1. Redefine Me 2. Year Of The Plague 3. My World Is Ending 4. This Eternal Instant 5. Lost Reality 6. Soul Decision 7. Simplicity Demand 8. Obscure Indiscretion 9. My Secret Window 10. The Hours That Remain 11. Into The Sea Of Dark Desires/World Hate Center-live 12. Dreams-live Disc 3: Architect Of Lies – 2008 1. New Desire 2. Bloodsong 3. Embrace The Nothing 4. This Black And Endless Never 5. Isolation (The Loneliness In December) 6. The Endless Fall 7. Death Connection 8. Black And Hollow 9. Execution Style 10. I Am Lies 11. Public Failure Number One 12. Burning Angel-Arch Enemy cover