That year, Mercenary played at the ProgPower music festival in the United States and released their second album Everblack.

It was after this that the band fired drummer Rasmus Jacobsen, thinking he invested too little time into Mercenary and too much into other projects.

Two old friends of Kral's (drummer Mike Park Nielson, whom he had met in 1993 at a concert in Copenhagen, and Martin Buus Pedersen, whom Kral knew since he was seventeen years old and working in a music store, when Martin was testing a guitar) would soon fill in the two spots, and with this new lineup, Mercenary were signed to Century Media Records.

The band went about writing and recording their fourth full-length as a five-piece, with Mikkel Sandager performing all vocals, and the album's producer Jacob Hansen handling bass duties.

Shortly after this, the band managed to employ bassist/vocalist René Pedersen to fill in the void left by Kral.

In September 2006, Mercenary joined numerous other bands such as Evergrey, Epica, and Jørn Lande in the ProgPower USA festival.

[6] On 15 January 2020, Mercenary announced the addition of Martin Nielsen as the bands new drummer, replacing Peter Mathiesen.

[10] Following these releases, the band announced they were working on their 8th album,[11] later to be named Soundtrack For The End Of Times,[12] which would be supported by a crowdfunding campaign.