King Diamond and Mercyful Fate reaction videos are few and far between here on the Tube. Thank you! But what we are all really lacking here are Celtic Frost reaction videos! "Circle of the Tyrants", "Into the Crypts of Rays", "Procreation of the Wicked", "The Usurper" - there are seriously so many great Celtic Frost songs, as long as you stick to the first three albums > Morbid Tales (1984), To Mega Therion (1985) & Into the Pandemonium (1987)
this takes me back to being a kid. I first heard Mercyful Fate on a local HS radio show that a friend of mine did when I was 15 years old in like 1984-85, I'd go stage albums for him. First time I heard Rush 2112, Mercyful Fate, Manowar, Exciter, Slayer, Metallica, Motorhead, Celtic Frost ... all sorts of stuff. Thanks as always for the reaction.
Into The Coven was on the PMRC Filthy 15 list. PMRC stand for Parents Music Ressource Center. A commitee made in 1985 to work against children or young people having access to music with drug related, violent and sexual themes. It ended up in a court room and bands had to put a sticker on the albums. Mostly saying: Parental Guidance Explicit Lyrics. It actually only meant that the bands sold more albums with a sticker on it. Guitarist Michael Denner and bassist Timi Hansen from Mercyful Fate said: Thank You Tipper Gore and PMRC for earning us a lot of money. RIP Timi Hansen on bass. Drummer Kim Ruzz quit music after the first two albums. Michael Denner and Hank Shermann on guitars did a lot of bands. Together they did Zoser Mez, Force Of Evil and Denner/Shermann. The latter are very much like Mercyful Fate. Shermann also did Demonica, Shermann Tank, Fate and Gutrix.
I think you are going to like "Evil" from this same album. It starts out with a powerful gallop, changes pace to transition into the series of guitar solos that takes the song out to the end, but halfway through the solos, the pace picks up to a faster speed. It's got everything. But Gypsy, from the second album, is one of my top faves for its musical brilliance - powerful riffs, steady pace, wild vocals, and killer solos - all crammed into 3 minutes.
Mercyful haven't publicised an official album in 25 years TOOL - that's us now 😂 sound If Richard D James (Aphex Twin) was metal. The UK audio version single is different than the original tho perfect to experience! also BBC sessions were only available on bootleg tapes The original audio version BBC singles produced and mixed by Tony Wilson (British radio presenter) Congrats to virtuoso Becky Baldwin (Hands Off Gretel) is one of the illustrious female bassists :) to join the band bringing out even more depth and detail to the intricate arrangements and refined their musical genre even live performances ♫ 83 was a good year in metal for big first albums: Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind Black Sabbath - Born Again Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon Metallica - Kill 'Em All Slayer - Show No Mercy Mercyful Fate - Melissa. It must of gave an aspiring metal-head an early stroke from the earthquaking delivery of these releases "Melissa" is Mercyful Fate's very eclectic and satanic heavy metal debut. Even though the band is not British, basically what you're getting here is the darker side of New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM). with a lot of influences by Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin as well. Maybe not as dark as Venom, but that's just because Mercyful Fate consists of musicians that are much more capable than Venom's. That very capable musicianship as well as the dark side of the music is portrayed best in the eleven and a half minute epic 'Satan's Fall'. Even with all of the musicians playing with different personalities, it is music that still comes together as a whole. The music still has that 70's feel, still somewhat unshaken by the presented 80s. Amongst the guitars. The closest comparison that can be made about this album towards any band would be 'Judas Priest'. The progressive tendencies of earlier Judas Priest have been taken to a whole new level. Mercyful Fate are universally respected in the Metal community from fans across the wide spectrum of sub-genres precisely because their music features so many different elements and cannot be confined to any specific genre besides heavy metal. One of the better overall European metal records of the earlier 80's outside United Kingdom. The band’s topics of preference (the paranormal, occult, demonic, satanic) was felt by the very first listeners to be much more powerful, and effectively disquieting, than that of pretty much any other band from the time that casually delved into such themes (case in point: Iron Maiden’s “The Number of the Beast”). Take, for example, Kerry King’s reaction to the title-track of their first album, “Melissa”: … or, less charitably, we could also evoke the inclusion of “Into the Coven” (from the same album) on the infamous Parents Music Resource Center’s “Filthy Fifteen” list of “objectionable” songs due the occult content, though we imagine that it wouldn’t have taken much to impress those fellows… In any case, independently of the tiredness of the images and themes that populated the band’s universe, and the eventual “disneyfication” they had already undergone in the popular imagination. This borders on the fantastic; the supernatural and superstitious. The want for something to be there, hiding and lingering, for that sense of "awe." Whether in your search, you come out a 'new' you, or written down as a lost soul in one of those obscure books you've seldom heard about. This isn't for the strict and rigid minded, the I'll-see-it-when-I-believe-it type. The scientist that yearns for tangible results, no, or even the everyday skeptics, nah, more like for the wishful that wants to see something unexplained that wasn't there before. Essentially an escape from the mundane, and down that darkening path of transient evil, obscurities and ill-placed omens. Swinging a cape that never ceases to amaze, wearing the face of a Kabuki mask or something ritually painted along the lines of Arthur Brown meets Kiss without the psychedelics or dark-fun, covered in cow-envying amounts of leather, and setting the stage for theatrics are what the front man of Mercyful Fate brings to the altar. King Diamond places his voice at your disposal, in a taunting, I-told-you-so projection, constantly changing and altering itself, like a shape-shifter gone awry and appearing like amorphous shadows: playful, jumpy and tense, laughing.
King Diamond and Mercyful Fate reaction videos are few and far between here on the Tube. Thank you!
But what we are all really lacking here are Celtic Frost reaction videos! "Circle of the Tyrants", "Into the Crypts of Rays", "Procreation of the Wicked", "The Usurper" - there are seriously so many great Celtic Frost songs, as long as you stick to the first three albums > Morbid Tales (1984), To Mega Therion (1985) & Into the Pandemonium (1987)
Saw them several times in the 80s and saw them last year. They sound just as good.
this takes me back to being a kid. I first heard Mercyful Fate on a local HS radio show that a friend of mine did when I was 15 years old in like 1984-85, I'd go stage albums for him. First time I heard Rush 2112, Mercyful Fate, Manowar, Exciter, Slayer, Metallica, Motorhead, Celtic Frost ... all sorts of stuff. Thanks as always for the reaction.
A dangerous meeting and gypsy,,,,are 2 greats,,,,,🤘🤘🤘
Seconded, both good choices! \m/
The whole album is epic
Pretty sure it’s top 10 on a desert island for me lol
Lovely old school metal. Master of falsetto here. Saw him live one time. Live it sounds the same, really. He and his fellows puts down a nice show.
Hell yeah Mercyful Fate.
Into The Coven was on the PMRC Filthy 15 list. PMRC stand for Parents Music Ressource Center. A commitee made in 1985 to work against children or young people having access to music with drug related, violent and sexual themes. It ended up in a court room and bands had to put a sticker on the albums. Mostly saying: Parental Guidance Explicit Lyrics. It actually only meant that the bands sold more albums with a sticker on it. Guitarist Michael Denner and bassist Timi Hansen from Mercyful Fate said: Thank You Tipper Gore and PMRC for earning us a lot of money.
RIP Timi Hansen on bass. Drummer Kim Ruzz quit music after the first two albums. Michael Denner and Hank Shermann on guitars did a lot of bands. Together they did Zoser Mez, Force Of Evil and Denner/Shermann. The latter are very much like Mercyful Fate. Shermann also did Demonica, Shermann Tank, Fate and Gutrix.
I think you are going to like "Evil" from this same album. It starts out with a powerful gallop, changes pace to transition into the series of guitar solos that takes the song out to the end, but halfway through the solos, the pace picks up to a faster speed. It's got everything.
But Gypsy, from the second album, is one of my top faves for its musical brilliance - powerful riffs, steady pace, wild vocals, and killer solos - all crammed into 3 minutes.
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Excellent reaction..
I wait for my recommendation.
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That intro makes me think of some 16th/17th/18th century era, which fits cos a lot of that witchcraft stuff was prominent then.
thanks for the reaction :)
Thanks for watching! :D
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Mercyful fate - Night of the unborn please🔥
Great call, awesome song and maybe his highest vocals ever with Mercyful Fate.
Wonder if Anders Allhage was on this already.....it kinda sounds like so.......
Mercyful haven't publicised an official album in 25 years
TOOL - that's us now 😂
sound
If Richard D James (Aphex Twin) was metal.
The UK audio version single is different than the original tho perfect to experience!
also BBC sessions were only available on bootleg tapes
The original audio version BBC singles produced and mixed by Tony Wilson (British radio presenter)
Congrats to virtuoso Becky Baldwin (Hands Off Gretel) is one of the illustrious female bassists :)
to join the band bringing out even more depth and detail to the intricate arrangements and refined their musical genre even live performances ♫
83 was a good year in metal for big first albums:
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Black Sabbath - Born Again
Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Mercyful Fate - Melissa.
It must of gave an aspiring metal-head an early stroke from the earthquaking delivery of these releases
"Melissa" is Mercyful Fate's very eclectic and satanic heavy metal debut.
Even though the band is not British,
basically what you're getting here is the darker side of
New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM).
with a lot of influences by Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin as well.
Maybe not as dark as Venom, but that's just because Mercyful Fate consists of musicians that are much more capable than Venom's.
That very capable musicianship as well as the dark side of the music is portrayed best in the eleven and a half minute epic 'Satan's Fall'.
Even with all of the musicians playing with different personalities,
it is music that still comes together as a whole.
The music still has that 70's feel,
still somewhat unshaken by the presented 80s.
Amongst the guitars.
The closest comparison that can be made about this album towards any band would be 'Judas Priest'.
The progressive tendencies of earlier Judas Priest have been taken to a whole new level.
Mercyful Fate are universally respected in the Metal community from fans across the wide spectrum of sub-genres precisely because their music features so many different elements and cannot be confined to any specific genre besides heavy metal.
One of the better overall European metal records of the earlier 80's outside United Kingdom.
The band’s topics of preference (the paranormal, occult, demonic, satanic)
was felt by the very first listeners to be much more powerful, and effectively disquieting,
than that of pretty much any other band from the time that casually delved into such themes
(case in point: Iron Maiden’s “The Number of the Beast”). Take, for example,
Kerry King’s reaction to the title-track of their first album, “Melissa”:
… or, less charitably, we could also evoke the inclusion of “Into the Coven” (from the same album)
on the infamous Parents Music Resource Center’s “Filthy Fifteen” list of “objectionable”
songs due the occult content, though we imagine that it wouldn’t have taken much to impress those fellows…
In any case, independently of the tiredness of the images and themes that populated the band’s universe,
and the eventual “disneyfication” they had already undergone in the popular imagination.
This borders on the fantastic;
the supernatural and superstitious.
The want for something to be there,
hiding and lingering,
for that sense of "awe."
Whether in your search,
you come out a 'new' you,
or written down as a lost soul in one of those obscure books you've seldom heard about.
This isn't for the strict and rigid minded,
the I'll-see-it-when-I-believe-it type.
The scientist that yearns for tangible results,
no, or even the everyday skeptics, nah,
more like for the wishful that wants to see something unexplained that wasn't there before.
Essentially an escape from the mundane,
and down that darkening path of transient evil,
obscurities and ill-placed omens.
Swinging a cape that never ceases to amaze,
wearing the face of a Kabuki mask or something ritually painted along the lines of Arthur Brown meets Kiss without the psychedelics or dark-fun,
covered in cow-envying amounts of leather,
and setting the stage for theatrics are what the front man of Mercyful Fate brings to the altar.
King Diamond places his voice at your disposal, in a taunting, I-told-you-so projection,
constantly changing and altering itself, like a shape-shifter gone awry and appearing like amorphous shadows:
playful, jumpy and tense, laughing.
Do more mercyful fate! The oath is an awsome song
You're so cute!