Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Tracklist
Disc I01. Evil
02. Curse Of The Pharaohs
03. Into The Coven
04. At The Sound Of The Demon Bell
05. Black Funeral
06. Satan's Fall
07. Melissa
08. Black Masses [B-side Of "Black Funeral" Single] [25th Anniversary Edition bonus]
09. Curse Of The Pharaohs [BBC Radio 1 Session] [25th Anniversary Edition bonus]
10. Evil [BBC Radio 1 Session] [25th Anniversary Edition bonus]
11. Satan's Fall [BBC Radio 1 Session] [25th Anniversary Edition bonus]
12. Curse Of The Pharaohs [Demo] [25th Anniversary Edition bonus]
13. Black Funeral [Demo] [25th Anniversary Edition bonus]
Disc II [Live at Dynamo, Eindhoven, Holland 1983] [25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]
01. Doomed By The Living Dead
02. Black Funeral
03. Curse Of The Pharaohs
Line-up
King Diamond - vocals, keyboards
Michael Denner - guitars
Hank Shermann - guitars
Kim Ruzz - drums
Timi Hansen - bass
King Diamond - vocals, keyboards
Michael Denner - guitars
Hank Shermann - guitars
Kim Ruzz - drums
Timi Hansen - bass
Additional info
Produced by Henrik Lund.Engineered by Jacob Jorgenson.
Recorded and mixed at Easy Sound Recording, Copenhagen, July 1983.
Cover art by Thomas Holm/Studio Dzyan.
Reissue produced by Jeff Daniel. Assisted by Bill Turjancik.
Remastered by Chris Gehringer at the Hilt Factory, New York, NY.
Rating:
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Spinning my new vinyl reissue this afternoon. I almost forgot how much of a stone-cold bastard beast of a record this is and how much it influenced some of the later NWOBHM bands like Satan. Genius.
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Opening of Evil, Curse of the Pharaohs and Into the Coven is almost, if not as good as their debut EP. After that it doesn't reach the same heights but it never gets boring. So in my world it's not that stone hard classic but it's definitely worth a 8.
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My friend once told drop MF and KD early albums, check out later they are somehow better, he dont scream, he sings, and song writing are better and I will try do it now, listen all they albums.
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What a great classic black metal album.The song Evil starts out with some of the sickest lyrics ever written. " I'll dig up your body again and make love to shame". I love that shit. King Diamond is the only true Satanist in the early black metal. So you know he meant that. I was one of the only kids in the Catholic high school I went that was into Mercyful Fate. 40-plus years later I still love this music. Melissa on Don't Break the Oath are both metal classics. Not a bad song on either album
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Maybe their best, but compared to KD MF are just good and not very good to masterfull. Faves: Evil, Into The Coven, Black Funeral and Melissa P.S.: Blasphemy but Attic are the better Mercyful Fate 
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Posts: 1834 Written by InfernalOverkill on 16.03.2026 at 14:12 Fix’d
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Posts: 1834 Written by InfernalOverkill on 16.03.2026 at 17:17 Wouldn’t call it a mystery so much as questionable taste.
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This is a great album no doubt, but I always considered Don't Break The Oath to be their true masterpiece. I like KD's solo work too, especially Abigail, but the first two MF records have always had more of an impact with me.
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