{"id":95012,"date":"2023-11-15T18:54:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T18:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=95012"},"modified":"2023-11-15T18:54:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T18:54:47","slug":"vukovi-share-new-single-mercy-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/vukovi-share-new-single-mercy-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"VUKOVI Share New Single (&#8216;Mercy Kill&#8217;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of supporting <strong>BabyMetal<\/strong> later this month,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/tag\/vukovi\/\"><strong>Vukovi<\/strong><\/a> has delivered a new single titled <em>&#8216;Mercy Kill&#8217;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It sees the Scottish duo of\u00a0Janine Shilstone and Hamish Reilly deliver another outstanding slice of towering alt-pop-rock. Shilstone also wrote the treatment and co-directed its music video with\u00a0Zak Pinchin<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0<em>&#8216;Mercy Kill,&#8217;\u00a0<\/em><strong>Vukovi<\/strong>&#8216;s vocalist commented <em>&#8220;I wanted to depict the devotion towards addiction, whether it be towards a substance or another human. You know it\u2019s dangerous but find yourself submitting to the high again and again.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is the second single\u00a0<strong>Vukovi<\/strong> has released since <a href=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/vukovi-sharptone-records-new-single\/\">joining\u00a0<strong>Sharptone Records<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/vukovi-sharptone-records-new-single\/\"> this past summer<\/a>, with\u00a0<em>&#8216;Creep Heat<\/em>&#8216; being their label debut single.<\/p>\n<h2>Watch the video for\u00a0<em>&#8216;Mercy Kill&#8217;<\/em> by Vukovi<\/h2>\n<p><iframe title=\"VUKOVI - MERCY KILL\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dYcMLLhWZBE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>When and where can I see Vukovi in the UK?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Vukovi<\/strong> will be supporting\u00a0<strong>BabyMetal<\/strong> on three sold-out UK dates later this month.<\/p>\n<p>November<br \/>\n27th Roundhouse, London<br \/>\n28th Roundhouse, London<br \/>\n29th The Civic at The Halls, Wolverhampton<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, they&#8217;re pencilled in for the <strong>Download Festival<\/strong>, and will be performing last year&#8217;s\u00a0<em>&#8216;NULA&#8217;<\/em> album in full in London in March.<\/p>\n<p>March<br \/>\n15th Electric Ballroom, London (low tickets)<\/p>\n<p>June<br \/>\nTBA Download Festival<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It comes as the Scottish alt pop-rock duo prepare to join BabyMetal on their UK tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17559],"tags":[1116],"class_list":["post-95012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-vukovi"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>VUKOVI Share New Single (&#039;Mercy Kill&#039;) - Already Heard Staging<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It comes as the Scottish alt pop-rock duo prepare to join BabyMetal on their UK tour. 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