MERCYFUL FATE

Release Year: 2020
Artist Origin: DEN
Style: mystical satanic heavy speed metal

legendary first longplay [1983] of satanic heavy/speed metal forefathers that inspired a collective philosophical rebel of countless of hordes worldwide wins over the listener by both the iconic, charismatic voice of King Diamond and similarly strong, intricate, imagination-stimulating, in most part quite unpredictable composing and performance of guitar duel by Michael Denner and Hank Shermann; seven blissful, headbanging, and thought-provoking songs that possess minds and invokes hell even zillion years after they were initially recorded, have significantly contributed to development of metal as vicious, diabolical musical genre, achieved at the time when only Venom were threading similarly dirty, forbidden waters; recent German vinyl replica edition comes in hardcover gatefold digisleeve format on black polycarbonate disk with a lyric insert that folds out into a mini poster