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	Encyclopedia: Mercyful Fate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mercyful Fate is a Danish heavy metal group, and helped inspire fl metal (by playing a form of proto-fl metal).
		There is also talk of a DVD release of early Mercyful Fate audio and video material which is highly anticipated by the rabid fans of the band.
		Mercyful Fate should be remembered for: their superlative melodic twin-guitar work, their singer's falsetto and harmonics and their influence on the Black and Power Metal genres.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mercyful-Fate (1308 words)

	Greek Coven: Mercyful Fate History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Some say King was as close to pure evil as you could get, and through the chiling music of Mercyful Fate, he led you on a fearful journey into his gloomy underworld.
		The demos received some signifiant attention from the underground tape-trading circuit and led the way for Mercyful Fate to brand their mark on the flesh of the metal scene.
		The first record compagny to approach Mercyful Fate was England's Ebony Records, for which the band recorded two tracks in the spring of 1982.
	www.truemetal.org /grcoven/mfhistory.htm (1109 words)

	Mercyful Fate - Melissa Music Review \| sputnikmusic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mercyful Fate hails from Denmark and is arguably Venom’s side kicks in the pioneering of the fl metal genre.
		Unfortunately, Mercyful Fate are not too known and their music seems to be overlooked by other bands of their era such as Metallica and the whole thrash movement.
		Yet, on that note, Metallica paid homage to Mercyful Fate on their 1998 cover compilation Garage Inc by playing an 11+ minute Mercyful Fate medley, which has parts of most of the songs on this album and the whole song Evil.
	www.musicianforums.com /sputnik/album.php?reviewid=3709&genreid=4&styleid=18 (1239 words)

	Fate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fate was founded in 1985 by former Mercyful Fate guitarist Hank Sherman (aka Rene Krolmark) with former Maxim vocalist Jeff Lox Limbo (aka Jens Meinert), bassist/keyboardist Pete Steiner (aka Peter Steincke) and drummer Bob Lance (aka Bjarne Holm).
		Shermann later again formed Zoser Mez and re-formed Mercyful Fate and along with Bjarne Holm he plays in Gutrix, Virus 7 and started a career as a photographer in his real name Rene Krolmark.
		In 1990 Fate returned in a revitalised version and released the dynamic and powerful "Scratch'n sniff" album produced by Tommy Hansen in the Jailhouse Studios - and dis-banded, because EMI bought danish label Medley and they did not want to re-sign the group.
	www.peitersen.com /danish/fate.html (898 words)

	King Diamond/Mercyful Fate - Musician Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mercyful Fate is awesome, sadly most of the threads dedicated to this great band don't go more than 2 pages.
		Merciful Fate is definitly good enough to buy it if its not overly expensive though.
		Mercyful Fate was kind of an early neoclassical metal/speed band, King Diamond is more experimental.
	www.musicianforums.com /forums/showthread.php?threadid=391122&styleid=18 (1129 words)

	Mercyful Fate - Satan Stole My Teddybear
		Melissa, their full length debut and follow-up to the much bootleged Mercyful Fate EP (1982), is quite simply a classic album of dark metal.
		The first four tracks are the self-titled Mercyful Fate EP released in 1982 by Rave On Records, which was hard to come by in the U.S. and was heavily bootlegged.
		Mercyful Fate devotees are urged to seek this out, but the uninitiated should start out with Melissa or Don't Break the Oath.
	www.ssmt-reviews.com /db/searchrev.php?artistID=727&showReview=true (2243 words)

	Metal Blade Records - Online
		As one of the early purveyors of true metal, the band's impact is felt far and wide; from the new wave of fl metals' Cradle Of Filth and Dimmu Borgir to international metal gods Megadeth and Metallica.
		Most recently Metallica recorded a "Mercyful Fate Medley" for their "Garage Inc." opus covering such 'Fate classics as "Evil", "Curse Of the Pharaohs", "Satan's Fall","A Corpse Without Soul" and "Into The Coven".
		When vocalist and Mercyful Fate mastermind King Diamond is asked about the bands he has inspired, he immediately gets proud.
	www.metalblade.com /b2b/bands/Mercyful_Fate/index2005.html (291 words)

	No Life 'til Metal - CD Gallery - Mercyful Fate
		Perhaps, although Mercyful Fate mainman King Diamond is a confessing Satanist.
		Mercyful Fate split up soon after the release of this album, leaving King Diamond to form his solo band that dumped the "all hail Satan" lyrics for ghost stories.
		Another point of interest, besides the nine new tracks, is a new version of an old Mercyful Fate song "Return of the Vampire", which features Lars Ulrich of Metallica-fame on drums.
	www.nolifetilmetal.com /mercyfulfate.htm (537 words)

	KNAC.COM - News - Mercyful Fate: Out From Under The Blade??? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Blabbermouth.net - have reported that Mercyful Fate have parted ways with Metal Blade Records after the label chose not to exercise their contractual option to renew the group's agreement for another album.
		According to Mercyful Fate/King Diamond manager Ole Bang, who dropped Blabbermouth a line from the MIDEM convention/music trade show in Cannes, France, a new deal is expected to be secured in the coming weeks and the band is likely to begin recording their eighth studio album in late summer for an early 2003 release.
		Mercyful Fate leader King Diamond recently slammed Metal Blade over the record company's apparent inability/refusal to provide the band with adequate support necessary to put the group out on the road in support of their upcoming album Abigail II: The Revenge (due out January 29th).
	www.knac.com /article.asp?ArticleID=285&StartTime=1/1/2050 (2609 words)

	Mercyful Fate CD Reviews
		Our esteemed editor RScott was only too happy to give me the latest Mercyful Fate CD to review.
		I had heard of King Diamond (I always thought he was a Gene Simmons wannabe) and I had heard some good things about Mercyful Fate, but I never really got a chance to sit down and listen closely to either of them.
		This CD has convinced me that Mercyful Fate is one of rock's premier bands of the late 20th century.
	www.roughedge.com /cdreviews/mercyfulfate.htm (242 words)

	Mercyful Fate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Soon it was apparent that Shermann, Denner, Diamond and Denner's bassplayer, Timi Grabber, fit well together as a unit and those players performed under the Mercyful Fate moniker for the first time in Denmark.
		There were the usual member changes for a young band; Denner left and then returned and drummers came and went, but finally Kim Ruzz established himself as the drummer.
		King Diamond has, since the initial split, kept together a very successful solo band.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mercyful_Fate (679 words)

	ProgressoR - Detailed Reviews - Mercyful Fate - 1983 - "Melissa"
		I personally really like four (of 1986-1989, 1997) albums created by Fates Warning, but their first album "Night on Brocken", released in 1984 (!), showed by no means progressive metal, but just a speedy hard-rock in the vein of Iron Maiden.
		To understand this fact (if only progressive metal is also your piece of the cake) you need just a few listenings of "Melissa", especially the second part of the album, where the songs Black Funeral and, of course, the titletrack shine like diamonds.
		Unlike the next album of Mercyful Fate with more direct structures, "Melissa" contains all the necessary components of (heavy) progressive such as these: various themes and arrangements, changes of tempos and moods, etc., within any separate song from the album.
	www.progressor.net /review/mercyful_fate_1983.html (299 words)

	CASTILLO DEL MORTES lyrics (Mercyful Fate) ♫
		Mercyful Fate - At The Sound Of The Demon Bell
		Mercyful Fate - At The Sound Of The Demon Bell (Tradução)
		Mercyful Fate - Curse Of The Pharaohs (Tradução)
	mercyful-fate.lyrics-songs.com /lyrics/96055 (368 words)

	Interview with Mercyful Fate
		That is part of the mystique of Mercyful Fate.
		What I did was to form this thing called Fate, a kind of melodic heavy rock band, American style, and they did four albums, I appeared on two of them, and that was within two weeks after Mercyful Fate split, in 1985.
		Mike Denner left King Diamond and, also, Mercyful Fate during the first week, and then he re-joined the King Diamond band, because he was supposed to play on the Fate album, he actually appears on that first album.
	www.karsmakers.net /stuff/metal-e-zine/mercyfulf.htm (2373 words)

	Mercyful Fate : Don't Break the Oath - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		All of Mercyful Fate's potential was fulfilled on Don't Break the Oath, a doomy, gothic collection of post-Priest/Maiden fl metal preoccupied with Satan and the occult.
		Hank Shermann and Michael Denner keep their progressive rock tendencies reigned in while still delivering plenty of the neo-classical feel that gives the music its atmosphere, and King Diamond uses his vocal range to great theatrical effect.
		Fate's sound and attitude were highly influential on later gothic/fl metal bands, especially in Europe, and Don't Break the Oath consistently encapsulates their appeal.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,130471,00.html (174 words)

	Amazon.com: Beginning: Music: Mercyful Fate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This monumental compilation of early Mercyful Fate is one of the most essential metal albums one can own.
		This is a very cool collection of Mercyful Fate tunes, some great satanic music is here whenever you are in the mood for it.
		It's a shame that Mercyful Fate isn't more well known, these guys are amazing and prove that Satan can rock, their influence is greater then you might think as well.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000H44?v=glance (1050 words)

	Mercyful Fate
		While not a household name, Mercyful Fate is one of the more influential metal bands of the last few decades.
		Formed in 1982, the centerpiece of Mercyful Fate is King Diamond.
		Coming off like the bastard child of Gene Simmons and Satan, ex-Danish soccer player and avowed devil worshipper Diamond was actually threatened with a lawsuit by the KISS bassist over the face makeup he wears.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/100799/ae.six.pick3.shtml (143 words)

	Mercyful Fate
		When it comes to classic heavy metal, Mercyful Fate has produced some of the best and most original music to date and, best of all, they are still at it.
		As always with Mercyful Fate, they are quite religious oriented, or spiritually-oriented, in contrast to the King Diamond stuff which is more like life philosophy-oriented with the occult added to it.
		Maybe halfway through I'll go, 'Okay, this is definitely going to be a Mercyful Fate song,' and from then on it gets a little more streamlined, one direction or the other.
	www.the-plague.net /fate.htm (3565 words)

	Zoser Mez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		ZOSER MEZ guitarist Hank Shermann is a veteran of Mercyful Fate and FATE whilst Michael Denner is ex-MERCYFUL FATE and King Diamond.
		Of the three new songs an instrumental track, 'Land Of Goshen', would be subsequently re-worked to become 'Castillo Del Mortes' on the MERCYFUL FATE album 'Time'.
		This unit, adding Iron Fire vocalist Martin Steene and another MERCYFUL FATE Colleague Michael Denner on second guitar, was dubbed as FORCE OF EVIL by March of 2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zoser_Mez (314 words)

	Mercyful Fate biography @ Tartareandesire.com
		Mercyful Fate is one of the most influential and well-known metal bands in the world.
		After the release of their successful debut EP Mercyful Fate and their their first album the band splits up in 1985 due to musical differences.
		Soon after this he heard the recordings from Hank and Michael which sounded close to the original sound of Mercyful Fate.
	www.tartareandesire.com /bands/mercyfulfate.html (305 words)

	THE METAL OBSERVER - Review - MERCYFUL FATE - Don't Break The Oath
		"Come To The Sabbath" is by far the most well known FATE song, but at the same time it has to be the heaviest as well.
		MERCYFUL FATE is probably considered the second wave of Black Metal or perhaps the first wave depending if you consider his BLACK ROSE days.
		It may be 19 years old, but it's still a goodie with its dark overtones and can still be listened to over and over.
	www.metal-observer.com /articles.php?lid=1&sid=1&id=1798 (351 words)

	BLABBERMOUTH.NET - MERCYFUL FATE's HERMANN, DENNER To Guest On EIDOLON CD
		They are more interested in milking the trendy bands that are signed to the label since those bands will not be around or in 5 or 6 years.
		They know the real metal bands like Mercyful Fate have and will always have fans and followers so it doesn't matter if they don't get the publicity shitty bands need.
		The accuracy of the information contained herein is neither confirmed nor guaranteed by Roadrunner Records, and the views and opinions of authors expressed on these pages do not necessarily state or reflect those of Roadrunner Records or its employees.
	www.roadrunnerrecords.com /blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=42305 (771 words)

	Brats biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Brats was an important band that led to creation of Mercyful Fate.
		CBS cancelled the contract, and Brats were shortly dissolved, and split into the bands Geisha and Mercyful Fate.
		Eddie Haircut lived in London for a couple of years wher he was member of a number of bands, including rockabilly band Rimshots.
	mercyful-fate.coven.vmh.net /brats.html (352 words)

	Metal Hordes Forums - Mercyful Fate = Black Metal??
		Of course, if you think of it as Christ-raping, anti-religious metal, then I guess Mercyful Fate is, but then again, so is Slayer, and a lot of other bands.
		Mercyful Fate may not have the sound of 'todays' Black Metal, but in the beginning Black Metal was a definition for bands who were blantantly Satanic in music and image.
		Mercyful Fate, Venom, Slayer were all considered BM.
	www.metalhordes.com /forum/showthread.php?p=636 (448 words)

	KNAC.COM - News - Force of Evil Unleashes Debut CD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Couple that ideal with the reunion of Shermann with his Mercyful Fate partner-in-crime, the one-time retired Michael Denner, and a fire is destined to ignite.
		Where the Mercyful Fate band members are scattered across 5 different cities & countries, everyone in Force of Evil is based in one place, Copenhagen, Denmark.
		For you Mercyful Fate fans out there, I read an interview with King Diamond recently and he said Mercyful Fate is no more and is sticking with King Diamond.
	www.knac.com /article.asp?ArticleID=2803&StartTime=1/1/2050 (1185 words)

	BNR Metal Pages -- Mercyful Fate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mercyful Fate emerged from Denmark in the early 80's to become one of the most important metal bands of the decade.
		But their reign on top was short-lived, as King's Satanic views weren't shared by the rest of the band, and Shermann's desire to play a different form of music forced the breakup of the band around 1985.
		Since the reformation, King Diamond (the band) and Mercyful Fate have co-existed simultaneously, with King singing in both bands and the two bands basically taking turns releasing albums.
	www.bnrmetal.com /groups/mefa.htm (245 words)

	Tower Records - In The Shadows - Mercyful Fate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mercyful Fate: King Diamond (vocals); Hank Shermann, Michael Denner (guitar); Timi Hansen (bass); Morten Nielsen (drums).
		The first album from the reunited Mercyful Fate (with studio drummer Morton Nielsen replacing Kim Ruzz), IN THE SHADOWS adopts the stripped-down sound and progressive songwriting of the group's debut MELISSA.
		It may not be as classic as their first two releases, but IN THE SHADOWS is a strong addition to the Mercyful Fate oeuvre.
	www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=1323194 (277 words)

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