Although Mercyful Fate got back together nearly five years ago, the iconic Danish heavy metal band hasn't issued a studio album since 1999's 9. New bassist Becky Baldwin, who joined last month, confirmed in a new interview with the 'That Metal Interview' podcast the release date of the band's new album has been pushed back to 2025 so that frontman King Diamond can concentrate on his namesake band's upcoming record The Institute.

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After recently parting ways with bassist Joey Vera, Mercyful Fate now welcome English musician Becky Baldwin as a full-time replacement.

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Danish heavy metal veterans Mercyful Fate just announced via Facebook that they have "mutually decided to split ways" with bassist Joey Vera. While a replacement for Vera has yet to be announced, the band have reportedly been working on new material for their first studio album since 1999's 9 for a later release in 2024.

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Legendary Mercyful Fate announced that bassist Joey Vera steps down US tour, since he is on tour with his main band Armored Saint. Becky Baldwin steps in as replacement. Her comment and practice to ''Come To The Sabbath'' can be seen in the video right here.

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Legendary Mercyful Fate have revealed a tour in North America this October and November. This tour will be supported by Kreator and Midnight.

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Legendary Mercyful Fate have unveiled a string of tour dates for this summer. The majority of (festival) shows are booked in Europe. You can give a look to the list of confirmed dates via flyer down under.

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2021 will be something of a milestone year for King Diamond, who stated in a recent interview with Knotfest.com that, not only is a new album by his namesake band on the way, but the first studio album in over two decades by Mercyful Fate is also expected to be released next year.

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When Mercyful Fate announced their reunion for live shows in 2020, it was also revealed that the band's original bassist, Timi Hansen, would not take part in it due to his ongoing battle with cancer. King Diamond himself has now taken to social media to announce the very sad news that Hansen has passed away.

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Mercyful Fate's original bassist Timi Hansen has publicly revealed that he is battling cancer. Hansen went public with his diagnosis after it was announced that he wouldn't participate in the band's 2020 reunion. Filling in for him will be Armored Saint and Fates Warning bassist Joey Vera.

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Mercyful Fate fans around the world can rejoice, as the legendary band has announced on Facebook that they will play a number of European shows in the summer of 2020. The setlist will contain material from the band's iconic self-titled EP, their classic Melissa and Don't Break The Oath albums, as well as some brand new songs! Read the full statement below.

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Mercyful Fate guitarist Hank Shermann has announced his solo project called Shermann Tank which promises to bring "crushing brutality, relentless guitar attacks and vocals from the depths of hell-dark and melodically captivating!" Fair enough. Marc Grabowski will be handling vocals and bass. For now, check out the trailer below. You can expect the debut album to come out next year.

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To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Mercyful Fate's Melissa album which happens to be today, Mercyful Fate guitarist Michael Denner and Hank Shermann played riffs from all songs on the album, originally released on October 30th, 1983. You can watch the 11-minute full version video below right now and just enjoy the memories.

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In a blog on his MySpace, King Diamond is setting some facts straight, regarding to the interview he did for a Danish newspaper just before Christmas:

"The second rumour that's floating around, which is that Mercyful Fate has started writing new material, I really have no idea where it originated from. The present status of Mercyful Fate remains unchanged, meaning that we have not started writing new material. For that to happen, Mercyful Fate's recording contracts have to be renegotiated first. We certainly would love for this to happen so that we can finally make our long overdue "masterpiece". Both guitarist Hank Shermann and I are ready to go if that scenario presents itself, and who knows, that might happen this year.

So... for this year, you will see a double DVD of old private King Diamond video recordings and a double DVD of old private Mercyful Fate video recordings which I am working on as we speak. Guitarist Andy La Rocque has finished remastering "The Graveyard", "Spider's Lullabye", "Voodoo", and "House of God", all of which should also be available this year. And then there is "the big surprise" (not little King babies with horns on their foreheads or Mercyful Fate writing new songs, at least not as we speak) but something that could lead to renegotiations of the Mercyful Fate recording deals. We'll see. Be patient... On a personal note, I do feel reasonably confident that the Mercyful Fate masterpiece will see the light of day."

Mercyful Fate's last studio album, "9", was released in 1999.

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A few days ago, Swedish Heavy Metallers Wolf have posted the following message on their MySpace:

"As many off you know, and many of you DON'T know, Wolf did a cover of Mercyful Fate's "A Dangerous Meeting" on the 2002 release "Black Wings". We thought we'd share that with those off you that missed out, so we "gave" the song to the Wolf UK MySpace site. We're fans of metal, good metal that is, and there's no doubt about the impact Mercyful Fate have had on Wolf so we did a cover of 'em to show our appreciation. Getting the (devilish) blessing from several Mercyful Fate members for that version made us believe in metal even more! So go to http://www.myspace.com/wolfwarriorsuk and enjoy goddamnit, enjoy!"

Wolf are currently writing the follow-up to 2006's "The Black Flame" which they will be recording this summer.

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Rumours that Mercyful Fate was going to play again started after the wedding of one of Force Of Evil's guitarists on March 19th.

This is what was written back then on Covenworldwide, the official Mercyful Fate and King Diamond webpage:
"A rare meeting took place at Michael Denner's wedding on March 17th.. Members from original Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, Force Of Evil and Zoser Mez were all present to support Michael in getting married. Mercyful Fate presented 5 members, King Diamond presented 3 members, Force of Evil presented 5 members and Zoser Mez presented 4 members. Ole Bang, Tourmanager of all 4 bands since the beginning, was making sure all musicians were in place for the photoshoot."
You can see that photo here.

It seams that many fans were expecting Mercyful fate reunion but Ole Bang wrote the following announcement on the official King Diamond and Mercyfull Fate webpage on May 2:
"Despite uncollaborated rumours I have to inform you; There is no plan for a Mercyful Fate reunion !!!"

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