Mercury Retrograde is the seventh studio album by American rock band Tantric, released on October 5, 2018.

[2] Starting in the spring of 2015 the group revealed they were already recording new music to follow up 2014's Blue Room Archives.

[3] During the summer of 2015 and throughout 2016 the band released unreleased songs on their Reverbnation page titled "I Can't Feel", "Fool" and "Nowhere" these tracks were later revealed by lead vocalist Hugo Ferreira that they were just experiments to test new sounds and go back to an older style Tantric sound and see how the fans reacted.

[6] On May 3, 2016 lead vocalist Hugo Ferreira shared audio clips of new music on his social media accounts.

[9] The album's lead single titled "Letting Go" was released to radio on July 26, 2018 the song is currently airing on Sirus Octane, the lead single has been noticed by longtime fans as an unreleased but re-recorded track from the unreleased Tantric album Tantric III from 2007.