"Storm" starts with a drum hit and bass slide down, before launching into a low-swinging heavy groove, followed by coy keyboards and simmering, steaming vocals. Lyrically packing a punch, full of bitterness toward being bullied. The most memorable lyric: "Everyone laughs and everyone cries. It's comfort to know that everyone dies--especially you."

Undying Fire

Storm

A pop-laced rock song with a solid mid-tempo beat, and tight vocal harmonies. The main vocals are clean & clear female, interspersed with clean male vocals. "Stop, Kiss Me" is a love song, longing to be with your lover, but distance and impending terrible fate are the proverbial nails in the coffin.

Stop, Kiss Me

"If I Could" starts out with a soft piano, shortly joined by tender female vocals. Later, the song gets turned up a notch, becoming an arena rock power ballad with the addition of the full band, reminiscent of Pat Benatar or Heart. Lyrically, the song is a lullaby, a dream of a better world you'd wish to give your loved ones.

If I Could

"Uncaged" is a driven, hard-hitting song packed with determination and ambition. The verses are up-tempo and bold, with the choruses dropping to half-time to emphasize the expansive freedom that comes with embracing the fury of overcoming opposition.

Uncaged

"No One Will Save You" presents a juxtaposition between beauty and beast. The song starts soft and tender with a female voice, building to the choruses which are ruled by a strong, clean male vocal in a call-and-response against the growling of death-metal vocals. As the song reaches its climax, a broad and gorgeous harmony between male vocals supports the final death growls, before ending gently with the female voice as an "end-cap."

No One Will Save You

This tender ballad features a duet between female voices (guest singer: Amanda Somerville of Trillium, Avantasia, Epica). The heart-breaking song revolves around the emotional pain of a loved one dying, and the unbearable lonliness that follows. The apex reaches its peak as the two voices wail in a gorgeous whirlwind harmony before coming down to a somber, solo voice: "What hurts the most is saying goodbye; an emptiness by my side."

Saying Goodbye

"I Am" tells a ghost story from the first-person perspective of a murder victim, coming back to haunt her murderer. The song is intense and menacing, slow and prowling like a blood-thirsty panther waiting to pounce. A progressive, crunchy bridge filled with a slick guitar solo breaks up the atmosphere momentarily before being book-ended by the female vocals that opened the track.

I Am

"Come to Me" is an up-lifting song full of joyful energy, regarding personal success that comes as a result from the support given by friends, family, and fans. It is a "thank-you" and love-letter to the people who make dreams possible. Featuring a gang-choir of harmonized "Oh's" and a duel between guitars and keyboards in the instrumental bridge.

Come To Me

"The Ghost" brings a dash of pop harmonies to a chorus loaded with bouncing bass-lines and a Santana-esque guitar solo as icing on top. But first, the verse comes in a mid-tempo beat with a clean female voice pulling emotion into the mix. The subject is the struggle of living with mental illness, and the contrast in personalities between verse and chorus emphasizes how illness can be a roller-coaster of life-long experiences.

The Ghost

"I'm Gonna Make It" is an up-tempo, high-energy song full of drive and ambition, and positive go-getter attitude, immersed in a flurry of sound.

I'm Gonna Make It

The sound: American rock meets European symphonic metal.
Mercy Isle was formed in November 2014 by Kassandra Novell.
Current members: Kassandra Novell (vocals), Freek Gielen (guitar), Eelco Slont (guitar), Chad Novell (bass, vocals), Joop de Rooij (keys), Ywe van der Pol (drums).