Have Mercy announce new album ‘NUMB’

October 14, 2023 James Weaver

HAVE MERCY have announced a new album!

Titled NUMB, the upcoming album from the American rock band is the follow-up to 2019’s The Love Life, and is scheduled to be released in December this year, via Rude Records.

Speaking about the upcoming album, vocalist/guitarist Brian Swindle says, “the best music HAVE MERCY has written and released are the songs that happen organically. The songs that aren’t forced or influenced by people outside of the group. This record was just us three guys writing music because we enjoy it. It’s a challenge to write something cool. Lyrically, the record had no choice but to be influenced by my sobriety, new marriage, and repairing / disconnecting from relationships with people. Over the last couple of years, there have been a lot of changes. We’ve all had to face demons and come to grips with what our realities are and how to sustain a healthier lifestyle.

We wrote and recorded the majority of this record in my basement. It’s truly a homegrown record and to me it feels very reminiscent of our first record The Earth Pushed Back. It’s a band again, a group effort. I’m really happy that we’re all in each other’s lives again.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, HAVE MERCY have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Alive. Speaking about the new song, Swindle says, “Alive is about being stuck in toxic relationships. Whether that be with friends or significant others. To me, the lyrics reflect that feeling of codependency and trouble detaching from the situations you know you shouldn’t be in. It’s one of the first songs that we wrote for the record and we kind of knew immediately that it would be a single. It’s very reminiscent of our older sound while adding some new flavor.”

Watch the official music video for Alive here: