It is impossible for a person who has never heard Mercyful Fate to not be impressed upon hearing it for the first time. I believe it happened to everyone. Amazing guitars, I love them.
I bought the album when I was 16 (LP) 40 years later...and I'm 56 now. My father said at the time: Sounds like a cat crying. )) But I was aware then, just as I am now, that these musicians are geniuses in their field. ★★★★★
Yep, I was 17 when I bought it, saw them at L’Amour and the Beacon Theatre in NYC when they were touring for this album. Lemmy and Motörhead were complete douche bags for yanking the King offstage, as they knew it would not be easy to follow them, much like when Metallica opened for GnR, GnR knew they were in trouble.
I can remember when I first bought this album,the eyes lookin' right at me and the finger pointing right to my soul.When I heard King's voice,I was immediately hooked.This album is totally Sic!!! All Hail Mercyful Fate.
Not sure if people hold the same opinion as me but across Rock and Metal music, This album is a masterclass in songwriting. The Complex arrangements blew my mind as a young musician. EVERYTHING on this album is good 10/10 After seeing them live in 1994 was a fan for life!!!
I saw King Diamond and crew at the small club called The Country Club in Reseda, CA.in '84 Merciful Fate tore that place up! Best metal band I've ever seen!! Take care!
As far as heavy music goes, this album has everything I could possibly ask for and more. Masterful arrangements, guitar riffs, overall musicianship, vocals, vibe, sound, imagery... elite level, original music.
Man, production is the last thing on my mind when I listen to this. It's not so bad (not bad at all IMO) that you can't pick out the absolute WEALTH of musical detail and metal spirit on display.
To Me, The Best Mercyful Fate Album, Also The Best performance of one of my greatest Bass Heroes, Timi "Grabber" Hansen. Thanks for All your influence and awesome Bass Lines. R.I.P Timi Hansen.
The melodic and rhythmic inventiveness and counterpoint playing with fingers of the bass guitar on this album, and especially in Night of the unborn, is simply breathtaking.... R.I.P Timi Hansen... Bass guitar Master🔥
I discoved this gem of a record when I was 11yrs old ..because it was the cheapest album in the store and it's all I could afford with my allowance..glad that I did
My only regret in life is missing out on seeing MF live last year when I was struggling with an addiction to crack. I’m 2 months clean now and looking forward to concerts next month. I miss my metal family 😈🤘🏻
@@MetalNeyth Great album with great songs. Great guitar work and guitar solos. Not one bad song off this great album. . A solid fuckin 10. . . Crank it up LOUD. Horns UP 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Anthony, You are correct about the Musicians being Top Notch. To Anyone who does not like King's vocals, all I can say to them is [ YOU DON'T KNOW GREAT VOCALS]
If black sabbath is the father of black metal, mercyful fate is a talented son whose podium and this album is a gem. Guitars full of purity and king diamond an outstanding one. until today.
If you're talking about Speed Metal, Progressive Metal or Doom/Death Metal, this album is essential. Mercyful Fate were at their peak on the record. Timi's bass playing is off the hook, the dual guitars are masterful, the drumming is top-notch and King's vocals are insanely good. Sadly, no one makes records like this anymore. Thankfully we have this masterpiece to enjoy for years to come. RIP Timi
Imagine if we remove KD's and Halford's vocals and listen only to instrumentals on MF's "Melissa" & "DBtO" and JP, from 1978 to 1982, I think there will be a genuine question who really are the "Gods of Metal"
absolutely! don't break the oath, powerslave, ride the lightning, last in line, defenders of the faith, stay hungry, haunting the chapel, and that's just the classics that come right off the top of my head.
Every track on this album is a banger. Infinity/10 rating. That's how perfect this burning hot, red jewel of an album is. I just want to burn in flames like the album cover.
@Robert Lansing huh? 🤨 Did you miss out a word or something, because I can't make sense of what you're trying to say here? 🤔 Not meaning any offense, I know alot of people online take offense when misunderstood these days, just trying to understand what you mean? You've had this album since 1984 and never broken it maybe? 🤔 If so then good on you for being a kickass fan of classic Metal! 🤘 Long live Heavy Metal! 🤘
very unique voice nobody sounds like him he is an original singer, it is very melancholy sounding puts you in a delirium state, I am a HEAVY METAL FREAK I love ppl who are artsy they make the world an interesting place, he sounds like a ghost, I guess that is what KING DIAMOND intended on he is a crazy artist like all the rest. we need ppl to take on the darkness we can not ignore it, we must face it?
Love Michael Denner's wah inflected mournful, almost oboe sounding leads. He's like a dark version of Michael Schenker. You always know when he's playing..
I discovered King Diamond the band way prior to Merciful Fate. It’s funny that I also thought of the Denner/MSG connection. I always said MF was like the king singing for MSG too lol.
This is an absolute metal masterpiece and I never knew about MF or King until around the late 90's and I was a complete metal head in the 70's and 80's or so I thought. The arrangements, the vocals are just magnificent, everything is happening on this one.
I was 76 when my grandson brought this piece of devil worshiping garbage into my home. And it's still a portal to hell. I'll forever miss my devil-worshipping grandson we forbid him from coming over anymore in the summers after that.
I am bummed that I have severe agoraphobia, it would be a damn dream to see Mercyful Fate on their current tour, luckily I saw King Diamond in 2004 before my issues were severe. One of my favorite singers, completely underrated for sure, responsible for some of the best bands to come later.
Beautiful beyond comprehension! Every detail, every tiny fragment of sound is written and executed with such passion and commitment that it becomes something that transcends and morphs into an entity
This was my first taste of MF...or so I thought...this cassette I bought brand new in 1989 actually had Slayer's Hell Awaits album on it somehow. I'd never heard Slayer yet at that time either so I went a while thinking I was listening to MF when I was actually hearing Slayer. Needless to say I discovered 2 bands in 1 and love them both, thank you Metal Blade!
After years of delving into metal, experimental, noise, power electronics, etc, this is still something that ages perfectly in a sea of forgettable rock music
1984 I was a freshman in high school rocking to mercyful fate and king diamond 💎 best of times .. I'm 55 now and still rocking in the pontiac at every light people looking to see who's rocking the King
Amen my friend when I was 16 played it in his Nova in an old Clarion cassette deck and I've rediscovered it and it's jamming right now rock on Defenders of the faith
This album cover is the best, plus the music is the bestest. There are no fillers on this one the whole album is top line material sad that they don't get more praise for All that they have done ✅☠️💀👂
One of my favourite lps of all time .an absolute masterpiece. A massive slab ov mercyful fate is a good way to inject some well needed METAL INTO YOUR DAY...HAIL!!!!!!!
To me this is the apex of Mercyful Fate but that's not to take away from their other albums. Each one has strengths in their own way and a supply of musical styles that, sadly, maybe are in their twilight of the metal genre. Each member of this epic band was at the top of musical proficiency when they recorded this Satanic masterpiece.
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It is impossible for a person who has never heard Mercyful Fate to not be impressed upon hearing it for the first time. I believe it happened to everyone. Amazing guitars, I love them.
Amazing guitars for sure. Great riffs. The vocals are a bit off putting to me though, but tolerable
@@FF-oo8nz it plays perfectly into the theme for me. I just imagine a vampire howling away in his castle or something
@@TheMightyChuRro to each his own mate
Simply amazing.. blown away first time I heard of them..
@@FF-oo8nz black metal was not yet made for posers in the 80's
I bought the album when I was 16 (LP) 40 years later...and I'm 56 now.
My father said at the time: Sounds like a cat crying. ))
But I was aware then, just as I am now, that these musicians are geniuses in their field. ★★★★★
Hank Sherman!
I was born 11/03/67! ... Were the last of the good ones ..
Yep, I was 17 when I bought it, saw them at L’Amour and the Beacon Theatre in NYC when they were touring for this album. Lemmy and Motörhead were complete douche bags for yanking the King offstage, as they knew it would not be easy to follow them, much like when Metallica opened for GnR, GnR knew they were in trouble.
RIGHT MY FRIEND!!
I got album (LP) on -87, still got it!
I can remember when I first bought this album,the eyes lookin' right at me and the finger pointing right to my soul.When I heard King's voice,I was immediately hooked.This album is totally Sic!!! All Hail Mercyful Fate.
The best album cover in metal history.
YES!!i m french..since twty olod
Yes. I remember the first time I saw it. I really couldn't comprehend it, but had to hear the music that went with it.
Fo sho sad that they don't have the recognition that they should have
True, although the perspective on the hand is a bit odd imo
Agreed. So fucking sick
Not sure if people hold the same opinion as me but across Rock and Metal music, This album is a masterclass in songwriting. The Complex arrangements blew my mind as a young musician. EVERYTHING on this album is good 10/10 After seeing them live in 1994 was a fan for life!!!
THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST METAL ALBUMS, AND KING DIAMOND, ONE OF THE BEST SINGERS IN THE METAL HISTORY!!!!!
I saw King Diamond and crew at the small club called The Country Club in Reseda, CA.in '84
Merciful Fate tore that place up!
Best metal band I've ever seen!!
Take care!
One of the best albums which should be listened before you die.
I concur
Definitely. Been listening since mid-90s. Was born the year it was released
or after
As far as heavy music goes, this album has everything I could possibly ask for and more. Masterful arrangements, guitar riffs, overall musicianship, vocals, vibe, sound, imagery... elite level, original music.
In 83-84 it was even better
Great album but too bad it sounds like it was recorded underwater
@@queercommunist It's an analog recording. If you can't hear the classic roaring british amp. Definitely you're deaf. lol
@@Nutamago Many albums from that era sounds much cleaner than this. Maybe it is just a matter of taste
Man, production is the last thing on my mind when I listen to this. It's not so bad (not bad at all IMO) that you can't pick out the absolute WEALTH of musical detail and metal spirit on display.
I Just want to say, I grew up listening to this album. LONG time ago. I will listen to, until the day I die...
I Bought This Excellent Album In 1984 When I Was 17 Years Old!...🤘
Excellent choice 👍
@@lbroolz I was 14 in 1984...Magical time for music!
I bought it in 99. I was 21.
me too ! (ol'timer lol)
Listening for my first time now at age 44
Nothing Compares to this Era of Mercyful Fate!!!!!!🤘🤘🤘🤘
Nothing… the best. Denner and Sherman are the best.
Except the unholy trinity of "S" albums from the 70s by the almighty Priest: Sad Wings Of Destiny, Sin After Sin and Stained Class!!!
To Me, The Best Mercyful Fate Album, Also The Best performance of one of my greatest Bass Heroes, Timi "Grabber" Hansen. Thanks for All your influence and awesome Bass Lines. R.I.P Timi Hansen.
That intro riff to descration of souls is really something else🔥
My alltime favourite track of MF.
All intro riffs on this album are awesome
yes, exactly
I am listening to that now - holy F - so good!!!!
Best riff on that album for sure, although not without SERIOUS competition
The melodic and rhythmic inventiveness and counterpoint playing with fingers of the bass guitar on this album, and especially in Night of the unborn, is simply breathtaking....
R.I.P Timi Hansen...
Bass guitar Master🔥
I discoved this gem of a record when I was 11yrs old ..because it was the cheapest album in the store and it's all I could afford with my allowance..glad that I did
My only regret in life is missing out on seeing MF live last year when I was struggling with an addiction to crack. I’m 2 months clean now and looking forward to concerts next month. I miss my metal family 😈🤘🏻
Enjoy life! Stay clean, por ti y los tuyos.
@@PabloJ1968update: saw Dark Angel, Exciter, and Midnight in the last few months 🔥🔪🩸
Welcome home brother!
Awesome vocals.Excellent guitars.Great songs.Wonderful album.Marvelous band.
Finally someone have something to say ABOUT the album. Kudos!
You must be dreaming.
Never heard such teeny bop shite.
@@MetalNeyth
Great album with great songs. Great guitar work and guitar solos. Not one bad song off this great album. . A solid fuckin 10. . . Crank it up LOUD. Horns UP 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
No band will ever come close to this type of genre. This is the one that all others bow down to. Iam with everyone else thee Master piece.
First heard this in 1985...A Molten Metal Classic... These are top notch musicians here no matter if you disregard the vocal style or not
King's vocal Style is in top 5 Greatest Metal Vokills of ALL TIME. 🤘🤘🤘🤘💯
Anthony, You are correct about the Musicians being Top Notch. To Anyone who does not like King's vocals, all I can say to them is [ YOU DON'T KNOW GREAT VOCALS]
Rest in peace, timi Hansen ( 1959- 2019)
Timmi " The Grabber " Hansen [ Rest In Power] ☝️☝️👍👍🤘🤘
Rest in peace. Valeu 😢
Rip Juan hector Rodriguez Pablo and Edgar and Jose
He died!?! I figured Satan would make him live forever! I mean… if you have the balls to worship the devil… I think you should live forever! Lol
Long live the King. Horns up
What an astonishing album! And to think this was released in 1984 ... it wasn't so much ahead of its time as it was defining the times to come.
If black sabbath is the father of black metal, mercyful fate is a talented son whose podium and this album is a gem. Guitars full of purity and king diamond an outstanding one. until today.
If you're talking about Speed Metal, Progressive Metal or Doom/Death Metal, this album is essential. Mercyful Fate were at their peak on the record. Timi's bass playing is off the hook, the dual guitars are masterful, the drumming is top-notch and King's vocals are insanely good. Sadly, no one makes records like this anymore. Thankfully we have this masterpiece to enjoy for years to come.
RIP Timi
Imagine if we remove KD's and Halford's vocals and listen only to instrumentals on MF's "Melissa" & "DBtO" and JP, from 1978 to 1982, I think there will be a genuine question who really are the "Gods of Metal"
@@volodymyroleksiv3162 🤔🤔🧐
No matter what kind of metal you play you should hear this imho
Tis Black Metal, 1st wave. 😅
There's a presence on this album. A masterpiece!!!
It feels inspired by true otherworldly forces
There's no presents, not this christmas
Got my hands on this pearl in late 1984 when I just had turned 14. One of the best 5-10 metal albums of all time. Perfect in every way.
1984. What a year in METAL. I'm proud of my musical tastes as a 15 to 16 year-old young man!
absolutely! don't break the oath, powerslave, ride the lightning, last in line, defenders of the faith, stay hungry, haunting the chapel, and that's just the classics that come right off the top of my head.
Agreed 84-85 was great for metal and in 85 came bonded by blood.
Bathory
this album changed my life. period.
Every track on this album is a banger. Infinity/10 rating. That's how perfect this burning hot, red jewel of an album is. I just want to burn in flames like the album cover.
@Robert Lansing huh? 🤨 Did you miss out a word or something, because I can't make sense of what you're trying to say here? 🤔 Not meaning any offense, I know alot of people online take offense when misunderstood these days, just trying to understand what you mean? You've had this album since 1984 and never broken it maybe? 🤔 If so then good on you for being a kickass fan of classic Metal! 🤘 Long live Heavy Metal! 🤘
120k views in 2 years is not even remotely enough attention for this ungodly masterpiece of metal 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
My second tattoo was this album cover. I can remember first hearing the combo of King's vocals with the awesome guitars, still is so awesome.
Bad ass Tattoo!...hmmmmm
@vic lagina420 me too
Was your first tattoo the cover of Melissa?
I'll made this tattoo in my left arm next week!
My second tattoo was on my right knee .it's a stick figure of a man with a big pecker.
very unique voice nobody sounds like him he is an original singer, it is very melancholy sounding puts you in a delirium state, I am a HEAVY METAL FREAK I love ppl who are artsy
they make the world an interesting place, he sounds like a ghost, I guess that is what KING DIAMOND intended on he is a crazy artist like all the rest. we need ppl to take on the darkness we can not ignore it, we must face it?
Carl Jung’s shadow integration, we must accept our shadow in order to overcome
If I could only bring one metal album to a deserted island, it would probably be this one. Perfection from start to finish.
It would only be deserted because anyone visiting would be impaled vlad. Get it together
Love Michael Denner's wah inflected mournful, almost oboe sounding leads. He's like a dark version of Michael Schenker. You always know when he's playing..
I discovered King Diamond the band way prior to Merciful Fate. It’s funny that I also thought of the Denner/MSG connection. I always said MF was like the king singing for MSG too lol.
This is an absolute metal masterpiece and I never knew about MF or King until around the late 90's and I was a complete metal head in the 70's and 80's or so I thought.
The arrangements, the vocals are just magnificent, everything is happening on this one.
Yeah this is definitely in the top 5 best albums of all time.
Should have 10 million likes. This band and album was one of the best of the 80's
I was 76 when my grandson brought this piece of devil worshiping garbage into my home. And it's still a portal to hell. I'll forever miss my devil-worshipping grandson we forbid him from coming over anymore in the summers after that.
I hope your grandson will come visit you soon, so you and your grandson would chill on the couch and listen to this masterpiece!)
🤣Thank you for making my day Mr. Searles😂
Jesus mows my lawn during the summer.
You can't know good without knowing evil.
30 years later 'Welcome Princes' is still being haunted by that misprinting of the title.
😂🤣
The satanic masterpiece of mercyful fate! Wonderful vibe, killer solos and King at his prime!
This was the first album I heard from them and since then I love it!
King Diamond one of the most under rated singers in metal period no one in any genre can sing like him or in his vocal range.
The writing, singing and musicianship on this album is for me truly a masterpiece! Amazing show as well Montreal 2023. Excellent live performance!!!
19:52 10 incredible guitar solos with 10 different time changes !!
Yep. Those solo tradeoffs in the last minute or so are unparalleled imo. The solos in Judas Priest's Painkiller are a worthy contender.
This is a masterpiece :)
Greetings to all, from old metalhead from Croatia.
I am bummed that I have severe agoraphobia, it would be a damn dream to see Mercyful Fate on their current tour, luckily I saw King Diamond in 2004 before my issues were severe. One of my favorite singers, completely underrated for sure, responsible for some of the best bands to come later.
Beautiful beyond comprehension! Every detail, every tiny fragment of sound is written and executed with such passion and commitment that it becomes something that transcends and morphs into an entity
The production is perfect on this. It's heavy, but still crisp and clear, like Ride the Lightning or Powerslave.
1:12 It's like you are in the Depths of Hell and Satan is growling! Every song was Perfect on this album.
the Hank Shermann/Michael Denner solos are out of this world
Welcome Princess of Hell is probably my favorite track from DBTO
This great Metal should be played loud and all the time, Thanks Kim for your awsome vocals and Rock N Peace Timi Hansen 👁🖤🤘
This was my first taste of MF...or so I thought...this cassette I bought brand new in 1989 actually had Slayer's Hell Awaits album on it somehow. I'd never heard Slayer yet at that time either so I went a while thinking I was listening to MF when I was actually hearing Slayer. Needless to say I discovered 2 bands in 1 and love them both, thank you Metal Blade!
LOL! Friggin awesome!
Van Halen never die
Lol I hate when that happens! I once got a copy of Entombed Left Hand Path that had a Johnny Cash album on it 😂 Oh well still pretty good
Merycful Fate in its own league with tempo changes and emotional intensity
The greatest band of all time.
After years of delving into metal, experimental, noise, power electronics, etc, this is still something that ages perfectly in a sea of forgettable rock music
Timi , Timi - you are a great bass player and continue to be in this music . RIP
1984 I was a freshman in high school rocking to mercyful fate and king diamond 💎 best of times ..
I'm 55 now and still rocking in the pontiac at every light people looking to see who's rocking the King
I remember buying this on vinyl at a flea market in the dollar bin around 2008… such a score never had heard of the em before that.
Amen my friend when I was 16 played it in his Nova in an old Clarion cassette deck and I've rediscovered it and it's jamming right now rock on Defenders of the faith
Still have my cassette on Combat Records I bought in 84'.
I have my Combat cassette that I bought a bit later, back in 1988. I also have my Combat CD of it.
Aside from everything else being tight af on this album, the engineering/mix is quite excellent for it's time
Melissa is Cult but Don't break the oath is so Masterpiece!!!Perfect🤘
Don't break the oath....
just break the record instead.
Hawkwind were doing this kind of stuff in the late 60's.
Waiting for the vicious replies!!!!
Hawkwind is great. Im sure Mercyful Fate took some influence from the in some form but they are still different. Why not just listen to both?
THE best metal album ever recorded!!
It's top 5 for me 🤘
My favorite Mercyful Fate album!! So Epic!!🤘🤘
Mine too, with "Gypsy"my favorite song. Man, getting goosebumps!!
Yes, me too. The modern guys won't create something like that.
I'm literally discovering this album. Absolute jewel!
Love this album, an essential masterpiece in Metal.
This album cover is the best, plus the music is the bestest. There are no fillers on this one the whole album is top line material sad that they don't get more praise for All that they have done ✅☠️💀👂
Had to go hunting down a physical copy of this album in 2007 and now here it is on youtube for free. Oh how times change.
Nightmare is the epitome of metal.
One of the best prog-melal album: MF - one of the founders of genre! ;)
Metal Blade just re-released the first two studio albums in May...
This album is a masterpiece
Thank God for this music!!!
Yeah thank Lemmy.
@@nbkawtgnobody Nice! Lennon is still bigger though! ;)
Thank Satan
Lmao!
The best album of all times
One of the best albums ever heard. Incredible from the first track to the last!
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Una de mis bandas favoritas de Heavy metal 80s ¡¡¡¡¡
My #1 of all time
One of my favourite lps of all time .an absolute masterpiece. A massive slab ov mercyful fate is a good way to inject some well needed METAL INTO YOUR DAY...HAIL!!!!!!!
“To One Far Away” ALWAYS brings a tear to my eye, and want it played at my funeral. I was 18 when this album came out.
Uno. De. Los. Mejores. Álbum. De. Metal. Con. Sus. Toques. De. Una. Batería. Sincopada
My all-time favorite metal album. A timeless classic! (in my opnion)
Night of the Unborn has gotta be one of the best songs of all time
Also Gypsy
To me this is the apex of Mercyful Fate but that's not to take away from their other albums. Each one has strengths in their own way and a supply of musical styles that, sadly, maybe are in their twilight of the metal genre. Each member of this epic band was at the top of musical proficiency when they recorded this Satanic masterpiece.
Still kicks ass after all these years.
My desert island album. My one and only.
One of the best albums ever made
This is a must have! A masterpiece!
This album was and still is INSANELY AWESOME !!
You are insane, you are insane, you are insane 😀😀😀
Rock in roll baby RIP Tim Hansen. The rock n roll God's shall bless you 🙏 🙌
A legendary classick. Hail to the KING!
Альбом безумно великолепен!!!песни клёвые🔥🖤🖤🖤🔥👹👍👍музыка убойно очень здорово🤘🤘🤘
🌈💯📀🎁💫💕🎼🎶🎆💿😶🌫️💓🎧🌆🎉‼️
DISCAZOOOOOOOOOOO!! UNA OBRA MAESTRA DEL HEAVY METAL JUNTO CON "MELISSA" OTRO GRAAAN CLASICO DE LOS 80!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Y el EP sin nombre
I love Mercyful Fate whit the era whit Michael Denner he is a Master ir the guitarrs. Ídol Michael Denner.
My favorite album of them all.
Jeden z najlepszych albumow w historii heavy metalu...
Melissa była świetna w swej surowości ale ten album ma klimat typowo iście szatański👍
Dozgonne uwielbienie 🤘🔥🤘
Tego powinni w szkołach muzycznych uczyć..
The best fucking album ever recorded.
Show! Grande banda, atemporal, salve nosso rock n' roll Brasileiro!
Sempre
Up🎤🎸🎷🥁📻🎧
This was the first album I heard from Mercyful Faith. Since then, I like this band
Sweet! Thanks for uploading this classic.
This album is my FAAAAAAAAVORITE