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.
F YA when i bought this i kinda locked myself in with headphones getting high iwaw just overwhelmed and still iam i don't have words for what kind g diamond an
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!
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.
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
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.
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!
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🔥
@@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]
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.
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! 🤘
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!!!
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.
Is it weird that I detect a different playing style between these masters, and the style of American metal gods? Not at all judging-- this is my absolute FAVORITE album from MF-- I'm just saying, after 40 years of listening to it fairly often, it seems like musicians from 'over there' just... sound different. Awesome, just different. Anyone else?
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
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?
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
Everything on this album is pure evil, the atmosphere, the tunning, equalization, nothing compares to it. These lyrics are beyond blasphemy. This is one of the best albums of all time.
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.
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!!!!!!!
J'ai découvert cet album alors que je n'avais que 13 ans et je l'écoute encore, j'en ai 55 ! Quelle claque et quelle classe, voix, guitares, ambiance, tout est au top et précurseur
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 ✅☠️💀👂
I'm sure I must have heard this album when it came out but I only remember one song. I only came to it by accident today and, man, I've been missing something! This is awesome. And I'm hearing Sabbath, Priest, Maiden and even a little bit of Ghost. Loving it. 🖤🤘🖤😢
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
Remember when album covers actually meant something? No abstract art here. That dude in the wave of fire is literally telling you, Don't Break the Oath. Don't F%#king do it.
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.
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
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
One of the greatest Metal albums of all time. Masterpiece!!! \m/
Total CLASSIC!!!!!
AGREED.
Fuck Yeah!
Yes Sir.I don't remember, as a rule, a Danish group of Fu..ing level. And the record (Italian🇮🇹slang) is"Scary",Masterpiece"
F YA when i bought this i kinda locked myself in with headphones getting high iwaw just overwhelmed and still iam i don't have words for what kind g diamond an
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!
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.
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
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'm literally discovering this album. Absolute jewel!
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.
There's a presence on this album. A masterpiece!!!
It feels inspired by true otherworldly forces
There's no presents, not this christmas
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
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
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🔥
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 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
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
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.
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!!!
this album changed my life. period.
The satanic masterpiece of mercyful fate! Wonderful vibe, killer solos and King at his prime!
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]
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.
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
Should have 10 million likes. This band and album was one of the best of the 80's
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.
“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.
30 years later 'Welcome Princes' is still being haunted by that misprinting of the title.
😂🤣
The writing, singing and musicianship on this album is for me truly a masterpiece! Amazing show as well Montreal 2023. Excellent live performance!!!
One of the best albums ever heard. Incredible from the first track to the last!
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All killer no filler that's the shit right there
This was the first album I heard from them and since then I love it!
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.
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.
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.
A perfect album, there's absolutely nothing to add to this one, sublime!
Tim Hansen was the silent hero of that CD with his powerful basslines.
My #1 of all time
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.
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.
120k views in 2 years is not even remotely enough attention for this ungodly masterpiece of metal 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Welcome Princess of Hell is probably my favorite track from DBTO
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! 🤘
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!!!
Love this album, an essential masterpiece in Metal.
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.
The Oath ...ist bis heute einer meiner Lieblingssongs❤
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
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.
Is it weird that I detect a different playing style between these masters, and the style of American metal gods?
Not at all judging-- this is my absolute FAVORITE album from MF-- I'm just saying, after 40 years of listening to it fairly often, it seems like musicians from 'over there' just... sound different.
Awesome, just different.
Anyone else?
Lots of busy arrangements. It never stops! Love it
Timi , Timi - you are a great bass player and continue to be in this music . RIP
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.
My desert island album. My one and only.
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
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
the Hank Shermann/Michael Denner solos are out of this world
This album is my FAAAAAAAAVORITE
Still kicks ass after all these years.
I have changed my mind 100 times over the last almost 40 years but Desecration of Souls is fav track
🤘Awesome Masterpiece of Heavy Metal🤘Mercyful Fate🤘
Everybody feels the shame is THE BEST METAL ALBUM TO DATE !!!!!!
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
Everything on this album is pure evil, the atmosphere, the tunning, equalization, nothing compares to it. These lyrics are beyond blasphemy. This is one of the best albums of all time.
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.
The best metal of all times!
Hail to Mr Diamond vocals!!! simply amazing, astonishing album...
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!!!!!!!
DISCAZOOOOOOOOOOO!! UNA OBRA MAESTRA DEL HEAVY METAL JUNTO CON "MELISSA" OTRO GRAAAN CLASICO DE LOS 80!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Y el EP sin nombre
Aside from everything else being tight af on this album, the engineering/mix is quite excellent for it's time
True metal masterpiece holds it's own just as good as when new
All Hail " Mercyful Fate"
Yessss finally uploaded again on TH-cam, thank you so much Metal Blade 🤘🤘
My all-time favorite metal album. A timeless classic! (in my opnion)
Long Live the KING!!!
I have have it on vinyl, yaaaabooo
I drew that demon and flames on the back of my sister's jean jacket. It was cool asf!
J'ai découvert cet album alors que je n'avais que 13 ans et je l'écoute encore, j'en ai 55 ! Quelle claque et quelle classe, voix, guitares, ambiance, tout est au top et précurseur
10 / 10 THIS IS PURE PERFECTION!!! INCREDIBLE!!! LOVE IT!!! MERCYFUL FATE RULES!!!
Slash was envious of the intro night of the unborn. Lol
Slash can suck every song on this album’s collective balls 😀
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 ✅☠️💀👂
This is a masterpiece :)
Greetings to all, from old metalhead from Croatia.
My favorite album of them all.
I'm sure I must have heard this album when it came out but I only remember one song. I only came to it by accident today and, man, I've been missing something! This is awesome. And I'm hearing Sabbath, Priest, Maiden and even a little bit of Ghost. Loving it. 🖤🤘🖤😢
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?
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.
hmmmm.. music from my childhood... bring back sweet memories... \m/ \m/
Great guitarrs Michael Denner
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.
The production is perfect on this. It's heavy, but still crisp and clear, like Ride the Lightning or Powerslave.
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
Great🤟🍺😋😊
& BITTE, BITTE ein neues King Diamond & Mercyful Fate Album.
R.i.p Timi Hansen
Nightmare is the epitome of metal.
Sradek zniszczył szkolną
Yeah this is definitely in the top 5 best albums of all time.
This is a must have! A masterpiece!
Remember when album covers actually meant something? No abstract art here. That dude in the wave of fire is literally telling you,
Don't Break the Oath. Don't F%#king do it.
Metal Blade just re-released the first two studio albums in May...
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.
ONE OF THE BEST .
No me canso de escuchar este álbum 🤘🏼
Venía a comentar lo mismo... Desde la primera vez que lo escuché nunca más dejé de escucharlo. Tremendo discazo!