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A Dangerous Meeting is the first compilation album of King Diamond songs, put out by Roadrunner Records. It also includes older Mercyful Fate songs, recorded during 1982–1984. Track listing
The Best of Mercyful Fate is a compilation album by the band Mercyful Fate from years 1982-1984. ... "A Dangerous Meeting" (Shermann) – 5:11 "Desecration of Souls ...
Don't Break the Oath is the second studio album by Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate, released on 7 September 1984 through Roadrunner Records.. The style Mercyful Fate employed on Don't Break the Oath resembled a mixture of heavy metal with progressive elements, lyrically preoccupied with Satan and the occult and distinguished by King Diamond's theatrical falsetto vocals.
The following year, Mercyful Fate recorded their second album Don't Break the Oath. Released on 7 September 1984, [4] the album debuted at number 33 on the Swedish Sverigetopplistan charts. [5] Despite winning a cult following around the world, with sales in the thousands, Mercyful Fate broke up in April 1985, due to musical differences. [6] [7]
Mercyful Fate is a Danish heavy metal band from Copenhagen, formed in 1981 by vocalist King Diamond and guitarist Hank Shermann. [4] Influenced by progressive rock and hard rock, and with lyrics dealing with LaVeyan Satanism (often with ironic or sardonic use of Christian themes) and the occult, Mercyful Fate was part of the first wave of black metal in the early to mid-1980s, along with Venom ...
King Diamond was formed in 1985, after the dissolution of the group Mercyful Fate, by vocalist King Diamond, guitarists Andy LaRocque and Michael Denner, bassist Timi Hansen, and drummer Mikkey Dee. The following year, the band released their debut album Fatal Portrait on 14 March 1986 which charted at number 33 in Sweden. [1]
The Beginning (Mercyful Fate album) The Best of Coal Chamber; The Best of Deicide; The Best of Fear Factory; The Best of Ill Niño; The Best of King Diamond; The Best of Mercyful Fate; The Best of Motörhead (album) The Best of Nickelback Volume 1; The Best of Obituary; The Best of Sepultura; The Best of Spineshank; The Best of Suffocation; The ...
LaRocque started out in the mid 1980s in the Gothenburg hard rock bands Trafalgar and an early version of Swedish Erotica. [1] He also played on the Death album Individual Thought Patterns [2] and the IllWill album Evilution, along with former members of Mercyful Fate. [1]