Epic Hank really put a lot of effort into composing this masterpiece.The riffs and time changes especially leading up to the bridge and the end of the song like he did with 'Satans Fall' from Melissa.
Great reaction! Mercyful Fate is part of the Heavy Metal Elite...Sacred, immortal, timeless, masterful Danish band from the 80s...The band has two main masterpieces: "Melissa" (1983) and "Don't Break The Oath" (1984)...I suggest the reaction, analysis of an absurdly wonderful song from the aforementioned first album from 1983: "Satan's Fall"...
So I'm a old Mercyful Fate and King Diamond fan from back in the 90s. And all the longer Mercyful Fate songs are like this. It's almost like they just couldn't get enough ideas in there and keept stacking riff after riff and solo after solo, and then the song was anywhere from 7 to 13min long. "Dead Again" is a very long song for example and it's just back and forth and up and down. But you know what, I said I was a fan. And what I like about MF and KD is that the music, the riffs and solos and all that, they just fill the spaces in between the story being told. What got me hooked in the first place was the story telling. I like the spooky stuff, and "The Eye" is one of my favourite albums for that reason. Based on something that happened historically, the French witch trials, but told as a story from the perspective of King Diamond who finds this magic necklace through which he can peer back in time with. I love it. I love all the albums to be honest. But yea sure this song on it's own doesn't exactly jump off the charts, but there's another song that ties back with this one on the same album "Legend of the headless rider", and if I'm not mistaken some other song on another album mentions "The oak" as a reference in another story. So I guess the whole point of Mercyful Fate and King Diamond bands is to enjoy the stories however short or long they are. Mercyful Fate did not really make whole concept albums, but the lyrics kind of refer back to other songs every now and again.
Dead Again is one of my favorites from that album. He goes off about that Orchestra lol. Definitely a journey once you parse and understand the lyrics.
@@uoabigaillevey yea I absolutely agree, you got to tag along with the lyrics on that one. I hadn't listened to it in a really long time until today. Brought back a lot of memories. 😃🤘
@@legolator I work nightshift at a local bakery. Many times in the past I was the only one at work during that shift.. so I would grab my mp3 player and make it a 'King Diamond' night.. starting with the first album and going to the next, etc. Other nights it was an Iron Maiden night or a Dio night, etc.. depending on the mood. Good times jammin out while working. ;)
Wow, I would never have expected this old banger to show up on a reaction channel - this song has the first guitar solo I ever asked my teacher to teach me how to play way back in ‘93
Merciful Fate and King Diamond albums are long stories, best heard from start to finish.. all the music and lyrics written to weave the tale.. lots of twists and turns
humans are a series of moods and there's no accounting for the mood one is in when they listen to something, just to say that this wandering narrative quality of Mercyful Fate is rare in pop/rock music and that sometimes metalheads (like any other sort of listener) are in a mood to sit down with an album with longer compositions like this and just go on the ride. To begrudge it for not handling its form well or such would be to begrudge a pulpy comic book for having panels in sequence... this riff salad thing is extremely influential and it is its own way a compositional freedom that heavy metal affords itself to get to other places than they would if they made 5 songs out of this one song with more rational sequencing. Listening to such songs many times until you have an anticipation for the memorable parts one after the other makes it a trip you long to return to.
Good song, but really hard to listen to as a first song in my opinion. Maybe starting with King Diamond - Abigail or something. Some other good ones that are easier on the patience could be The Tree's Have Eyes, Follow The Wolf, etc. Love this channel, one of the very very few I watch almost every single upload. Thank you both for being yourselves and sharing your discovery and exploration of music. Not particularly a metal guy anymore but definitely been one.
@Greatmeasures ...Ok Richard help me out... like I said my mount Rushmore is 1. Sabbath 2. megadeth 3. Mercyful fate 4. Judas Priest... but I'll throw in 2 honorable mentions.. 1. Suicidal tendencies... 2. Type O Negative... Would you help me by picking one of these creators of awsome and I'll give you the song???
@Greatmeasures Ok I got it... dreamer deceiver / deceiver (it's pretty much one song) by the priest... if u don't wnna do a 2 in 1 then how about a dangerous meeting by mercyful fate
If RUSH was a heavy metal band back in 1979... it would be THIS. 😆 YOU need to give Judson: LOVEBITES "Swan Song live with Chopin piano intro". It's here on TH-cam. I would give you the link, but my comment might not post if I add the link.
This was released in 1993 and grunge was everywhere, perhaps it affected some of the things even in Mercyful Fate, for example King is not "falsettoing" all the time while singing! In any case I remember seeing the video for Egypt, from this album, on the headbangers ball (Europe) in 93 and being really impressed. It was a good, catchy song with great playing and compared to the Old Oak, easy listening!
You have to listen MF songs (and many KD songs too) for a few times for it to "click". Then the mind starts catching all the structure and the music feels awesome! :-)
This was their attempt at creating another epic song in the vein of "Satan's Fall" from the "Melissa" album. Both tracks could be described as riff salad. And I do understand the comparison to Opeth. The thing is, "The Old Oak" is not typical of Mercyful Fate. The average Mercyful Fate song is shorter and much more tightly composed.
Anything King Diamond gets a like from me. Even my pfp is based on King Diamond. That being said.. to me the changeups highlight different aspects of the discussion of the Oak tree.. to evoke an emotional response to go with that specific aspect. King Diamond is a storyteller at heart so this vibes with that.
The one "weird" band from the same era as the flaming lips that I decided I was wrong about and are actually pretty fekin genius is Ween. I always liked "in the shadows" though, long live King D.
Here's the twist: The acoustic part is the main riff 🤡 I don't know if I've ever knowingly listened to a Mercyful Fate song (or King Diamon fwiw) and I liked this one a lot!
You would likely enjoy their album 'Melissa'... I believe it was their first album. That is where my own King Diamond/Mercyful Fate journey began. Very mood-driven album with a bit of storytelling thrown in.
Hey guys been a fly on the wall of your channel for a year or two now really enjoy how you both break down the songs from different perspectives and would be interesting to see how you both react to an amazing tech death band from Canada by the name of first fragment "and the song pantheon, or in el" ... Looking forward to seeing hearing your reactions I think it's going to tickle both of you 😂🔥🤘
The album , house of god by king diamond is absolutely a masterpiece!!! Along with the puppet master.. its truly hard tl say which song off of any of those album ls ome of my top 10 or even top 5!! Both albums are absolutely amazing!!
We could tell. 😂😂😂. Honest reactions are the best reactions Judson. We don’t mind. It was kinda funny watching you try to hide your annoyance. Peace guys.
Underrated and wonderful album. Rarely anyone reacts to this, in my books this is Mercyful Fate flirting with the music King does as King Diamond. Other MF records are more MF, hard to explain. Anyway, class album, every minute of it. Legend of the headless rider and the opening: "I'm an undertaker I'm a ghost in the night I'm a coffin shaker This graveyard site is mine". That´s the real deal.
Although I find it hard to take these guys seriously, I have massive respect for their legacy of influence. I must admit though, I love the song King Diamond did for the Road Runner United collaboration sessions, even if it was cheesier than a wotsit dunked in dairylea (good luck with that outside of the UK!).
That's the thing with the 'King'...he is a Storyteller and so is the music!There is nothing wrong in having complex compositions,it's just not the kind of music that relays on 'being catchy'!
Michael Denner & Hank Shermann guitars, Timi Hansen bass RIP. The Into The Shadows album was recorded with Morten Nielsen on drums. Except Return Of The Vampire 1993 that had Lars Ulrich from Metallica on drums. Morten Nielsen played in Denner And Shermann's band Zoser Mez. Check out Denner Shermann - Son Of Satan and Satan's Tomb. Very much like Mercyful Fate but with singer Sean Peck.
Mercyful Fate are one of the most influential bands in my musical history. I couldn't see them on their recent US tour, but it *floored* me when I read that their setlist was "Only '80s MF plus a new song (The Jackal of Salzburg)". Nothing from In The Shadows, Time, Into The Unknown, Dead Again, or 9. Five solid albums in the '90s (Into The Unknown was their best from this era, IMHO), and not one. single. song. from any of them. ... what the hell, King Diamond?
Probably drumming up support for re-releases of the other albums remastered. Just a guess on my part though.. kinda like how I noticed that on cable TV if a franchise were releasing a new movie in the franchise soon then one or more channels would feature the entire franchise's movies in order.. on repeat.. all day long... for days or weeks until the new one is released.
There is a 70s tune from Tony Orlando & Dawn called "Tie a Yellow Ribbon round the Old Oak Tree", Mercyful Fate isn't for everyone, I only like a few earlier songs mostly from Melissa...
Oh. My. God. I'm commenting during the first 10 seconds because I can't believe MUTHAFUCKIN MF IS IN THE HOUSE. And good choice, too. The OG just is my jam but this album is polished and sharp...ok, on to the video...
Yeah, I guess I'm too close to the campfire to hear J's points, which are valid. Every MF song is random assembly of killer riffs that keep you from "getting cozy with it."
You guys should react to night verses Phoenix V invocation or Love in Liminal Space. I know Judson would LOVE them considering how he's reacted to Djent, Tool, guitar work ect... It's killer.
This song is great and the reaction was awsome although I don't think Jusdon would like a song like Satan's Fall, an even longer riff salad than this one... I t would be amazing if you could do the reaction to the "Melissa Trilogy", the songs Melissa (album Melissa, 1983), Come To The Sabbath (Don't Break The Oath, 1984) and Is That You, Melissa? (In The Shadows, 1993), the story is great and those songs are more accessible.
I like this song but it's too messy for a listener that is not invested already into the band. Let's listen to Melissa (the song). That one is arranged beautifully and a masterpiece on its own.
in an interview for the sorceress, mikael akerfeldt said about opeth that he doesn't feel the music is good enough, which is why you get a variety of riffs and sections. he's unsure if anything he makes is worth listening to, so he just smashes it all together in one long stream of consciousness and calls it an album. when you listen to it, you can really hear what he means, like the chugging at the beginning of the sorceress and then pretty parts. i suspect its the same with king diamond and most creatives. i know from my own experience what it's like to think that everything you write is utter shit but you have to put something out, so you just put out whatever you came up with and call it prog.
I always liked this song but now that I listen to it again, yes it was too much. Three or four slowed down sections with yet another solo/instrumental part. Totally unnecessary. But that's King Diamond. His stuff is over the top, eccentric and theatrical.
Don't take to much time wirh Mercyful Fatae go to King Diamond. there are much more cool songs. You can take each song from the Abigail album, from the Portrait album, from the Puppetmaster and from Give me your Soul. there are less songs with stop and go and so on.
Should have a listen to Uninvited Guest, next , to see MF can do " more normal "😂songs too /../ I agree with both , the song has too many riff(some great) changes , and it gets a little anoying.
I mean, there is a theme in there but yeah, it could be a bit more cohesive. I don't mind either merciful fate or king diamond. I just could never stand his annoying headvoice. On this one it's okay since it's mostly used as backing vocals. Please do some Adagio. Piano heavy songs like from my sleep to someone else, next profundis, and stringless violin won't disappoint I'm sure. 😁
"In The Shadows" is a very underrated album.
One of my all time favorites.
10/10, one of my fave Lars performances, first solo in Shadows is top 3, the easiest King to sing along to, drums are awesome yet simple.
It's a masterpiece
It's a "if you could only bring 5 albums to a desert island" good album...it is sublime
Yeeesssss!! One of the best comeback albums in heavy metal. Long live MF.
Epic Hank really put a lot of effort into composing this masterpiece.The riffs and time changes especially leading up to the bridge and the end of the song like he did with 'Satans Fall' from Melissa.
Finally somebody reacted to a song from this great album.
The production on this album is so good.
Great reaction! Mercyful Fate is part of the Heavy Metal Elite...Sacred, immortal, timeless, masterful Danish band from the 80s...The band has two main masterpieces: "Melissa" (1983) and "Don't Break The Oath" (1984)...I suggest the reaction, analysis of an absurdly wonderful song from the aforementioned first album from 1983: "Satan's Fall"...
So I'm a old Mercyful Fate and King Diamond fan from back in the 90s. And all the longer Mercyful Fate songs are like this. It's almost like they just couldn't get enough ideas in there and keept stacking riff after riff and solo after solo, and then the song was anywhere from 7 to 13min long. "Dead Again" is a very long song for example and it's just back and forth and up and down. But you know what, I said I was a fan. And what I like about MF and KD is that the music, the riffs and solos and all that, they just fill the spaces in between the story being told. What got me hooked in the first place was the story telling. I like the spooky stuff, and "The Eye" is one of my favourite albums for that reason. Based on something that happened historically, the French witch trials, but told as a story from the perspective of King Diamond who finds this magic necklace through which he can peer back in time with. I love it. I love all the albums to be honest. But yea sure this song on it's own doesn't exactly jump off the charts, but there's another song that ties back with this one on the same album "Legend of the headless rider", and if I'm not mistaken some other song on another album mentions "The oak" as a reference in another story.
So I guess the whole point of Mercyful Fate and King Diamond bands is to enjoy the stories however short or long they are. Mercyful Fate did not really make whole concept albums, but the lyrics kind of refer back to other songs every now and again.
Dead Again is one of my favorites from that album. He goes off about that Orchestra lol. Definitely a journey once you parse and understand the lyrics.
@@uoabigaillevey yea I absolutely agree, you got to tag along with the lyrics on that one. I hadn't listened to it in a really long time until today. Brought back a lot of memories. 😃🤘
@@legolator I work nightshift at a local bakery. Many times in the past I was the only one at work during that shift.. so I would grab my mp3 player and make it a 'King Diamond' night.. starting with the first album and going to the next, etc. Other nights it was an Iron Maiden night or a Dio night, etc.. depending on the mood. Good times jammin out while working. ;)
@legolator "This is such a weird, weird song".
Interesting pick from this album. None the less , Awesome !!! King Diamond / Mercyful Fate rules 🤘
This is my favorite Merciful Fate album
That was a great, unexpected comeback album for this band! I also like the following album, "Time", especially that song!
Great song, great honesty!
Wow, I would never have expected this old banger to show up on a reaction channel - this song has the first guitar solo I ever asked my teacher to teach me how to play way back in ‘93
Some great riffin!
Thanks for the request, Mike.
I see you.
It's one of the most progressive songs by Mercyfyl fate. It takes a couple of listens though to truły appreciate its beauty.
Merciful Fate and King Diamond albums are long stories, best heard from start to finish.. all the music and lyrics written to weave the tale.. lots of twists and turns
humans are a series of moods and there's no accounting for the mood one is in when they listen to something, just to say that this wandering narrative quality of Mercyful Fate is rare in pop/rock music and that sometimes metalheads (like any other sort of listener) are in a mood to sit down with an album with longer compositions like this and just go on the ride. To begrudge it for not handling its form well or such would be to begrudge a pulpy comic book for having panels in sequence... this riff salad thing is extremely influential and it is its own way a compositional freedom that heavy metal affords itself to get to other places than they would if they made 5 songs out of this one song with more rational sequencing.
Listening to such songs many times until you have an anticipation for the memorable parts one after the other makes it a trip you long to return to.
Good song, but really hard to listen to as a first song in my opinion. Maybe starting with King Diamond - Abigail or something. Some other good ones that are easier on the patience could be The Tree's Have Eyes, Follow The Wolf, etc.
Love this channel, one of the very very few I watch almost every single upload. Thank you both for being yourselves and sharing your discovery and exploration of music. Not particularly a metal guy anymore but definitely been one.
Tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree by Tony Orlando & Dawn is what Judson was reaching for.
Yes! Thank you
@Greatmeasures lmao thanks guys I had a feeling jud would have that reaction... but appreciate it
@@Greatmeasures I'll reach out with the next one at some point
@Greatmeasures ...Ok Richard help me out... like I said my mount Rushmore is 1. Sabbath 2. megadeth 3. Mercyful fate 4. Judas Priest... but I'll throw in 2 honorable mentions.. 1. Suicidal tendencies... 2. Type O Negative... Would you help me by picking one of these creators of awsome and I'll give you the song???
@Greatmeasures Ok I got it... dreamer deceiver / deceiver (it's pretty much one song) by the priest... if u don't wnna do a 2 in 1 then how about a dangerous meeting by mercyful fate
If RUSH was a heavy metal band back in 1979... it would be THIS. 😆
YOU need to give Judson: LOVEBITES "Swan Song live with Chopin piano intro".
It's here on TH-cam. I would give you the link, but my comment might not post if I add the link.
My third favorite MF album after the first two.
This was released in 1993 and grunge was everywhere, perhaps it affected some of the things even in Mercyful Fate, for example King is not "falsettoing" all the time while singing! In any case I remember seeing the video for Egypt, from this album, on the headbangers ball (Europe) in 93 and being really impressed. It was a good, catchy song with great playing and compared to the Old Oak, easy listening!
You have to listen MF songs (and many KD songs too) for a few times for it to "click". Then the mind starts catching all the structure and the music feels awesome! :-)
This was their attempt at creating another epic song in the vein of "Satan's Fall" from the "Melissa" album. Both tracks could be described as riff salad. And I do understand the comparison to Opeth. The thing is, "The Old Oak" is not typical of Mercyful Fate. The average Mercyful Fate song is shorter and much more tightly composed.
Anything King Diamond gets a like from me. Even my pfp is based on King Diamond.
That being said.. to me the changeups highlight different aspects of the discussion of the Oak tree.. to evoke an emotional response to go with that specific aspect. King Diamond is a storyteller at heart so this vibes with that.
The one "weird" band from the same era as the flaming lips that I decided I was wrong about and are actually pretty fekin genius is Ween. I always liked "in the shadows" though, long live King D.
Ween are genius
Here's the twist: The acoustic part is the main riff 🤡
I don't know if I've ever knowingly listened to a Mercyful Fate song (or King Diamon fwiw) and I liked this one a lot!
You would likely enjoy their album 'Melissa'... I believe it was their first album. That is where my own King Diamond/Mercyful Fate journey began. Very mood-driven album with a bit of storytelling thrown in.
This is the FN Inna Gadda Da Vida of the Mercyful Fate catalog... very proggy.. I thought that guy was your friend.. hahaha
Hey guys been a fly on the wall of your channel for a year or two now really enjoy how you both break down the songs from different perspectives and would be interesting to see how you both react to an amazing tech death band from Canada by the name of first fragment "and the song pantheon, or in el" ... Looking forward to seeing hearing your reactions I think it's going to tickle both of you 😂🔥🤘
The album , house of god by king diamond is absolutely a masterpiece!!! Along with the puppet master.. its truly hard tl say which song off of any of those album ls ome of my top 10 or even top 5!! Both albums are absolutely amazing!!
We could tell. 😂😂😂. Honest reactions are the best reactions Judson. We don’t mind. It was kinda funny watching you try to hide your annoyance. Peace guys.
Tolles Video. Can Cradle OF Filth. Große Grüße aus Deutschland
Use english or gtfo. Pretty disrespectful to be so damn lazy.
Underrated and wonderful album. Rarely anyone reacts to this, in my books this is Mercyful Fate flirting with the music King does as King Diamond. Other MF records are more MF, hard to explain. Anyway, class album, every minute of it. Legend of the headless rider and the opening: "I'm an undertaker
I'm a ghost in the night
I'm a coffin shaker
This graveyard site is mine". That´s the real deal.
Judson's description of the Flaming Lips made me think of GWAR
Although I find it hard to take these guys seriously, I have massive respect for their legacy of influence. I must admit though, I love the song King Diamond did for the Road Runner United collaboration sessions, even if it was cheesier than a wotsit dunked in dairylea (good luck with that outside of the UK!).
That's the thing with the 'King'...he is a Storyteller and so is the music!There is nothing wrong in having complex compositions,it's just not the kind of music that relays on 'being catchy'!
This song is a callback to "Come to the Sabbath" from their album "Don't Break the Oath"
Michael Denner & Hank Shermann guitars, Timi Hansen bass RIP. The Into The Shadows album was recorded with Morten Nielsen on drums. Except Return Of The Vampire 1993 that had Lars Ulrich from Metallica on drums. Morten Nielsen played in Denner And Shermann's band Zoser Mez. Check out Denner Shermann - Son Of Satan and Satan's Tomb. Very much like Mercyful Fate but with singer Sean Peck.
Mercyful Fate are one of the most influential bands in my musical history. I couldn't see them on their recent US tour, but it *floored* me when I read that their setlist was "Only '80s MF plus a new song (The Jackal of Salzburg)".
Nothing from In The Shadows, Time, Into The Unknown, Dead Again, or 9. Five solid albums in the '90s (Into The Unknown was their best from this era, IMHO), and not one. single. song. from any of them.
... what the hell, King Diamond?
Probably drumming up support for re-releases of the other albums remastered. Just a guess on my part though.. kinda like how I noticed that on cable TV if a franchise were releasing a new movie in the franchise soon then one or more channels would feature the entire franchise's movies in order.. on repeat.. all day long... for days or weeks until the new one is released.
it is a story, and a story needs diffrent riffs :)
Gotta be patient with Mercyful Fate.
Reminds me Satan's Fall from Melissa.
Fun stuff.
Try Black Funeral or Come To The Sabbath
I’ve rarely seen a man’s patience tested this much. Perhaps he could’ve used a “long fucking song” disclaimer😂 I would’ve liked one!
story telling is a lost art
There is a 70s tune from Tony Orlando & Dawn called "Tie a Yellow Ribbon round the Old Oak Tree", Mercyful Fate isn't for everyone, I only like a few earlier songs mostly from Melissa...
Where is the background ? I really do like it !
Oh. My. God. I'm commenting during the first 10 seconds because I can't believe MUTHAFUCKIN MF IS IN THE HOUSE. And good choice, too. The OG just is my jam but this album is polished and sharp...ok, on to the video...
Yeah, I guess I'm too close to the campfire to hear J's points, which are valid. Every MF song is random assembly of killer riffs that keep you from "getting cozy with it."
Government st. Grocery is in my home town😮
Love those guys. I was in the Rooster Blues
You guys should react to night verses Phoenix V invocation or Love in Liminal Space. I know Judson would LOVE them considering how he's reacted to Djent, Tool, guitar work ect... It's killer.
Was Judson thinking of "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree"? 🤔
This song is great and the reaction was awsome although I don't think Jusdon would like a song like Satan's Fall, an even longer riff salad than this one...
I t would be amazing if you could do the reaction to the "Melissa Trilogy", the songs Melissa (album Melissa, 1983), Come To The Sabbath (Don't Break The Oath, 1984) and Is That You, Melissa? (In The Shadows, 1993), the story is great and those songs are more accessible.
I like this song but it's too messy for a listener that is not invested already into the band. Let's listen to Melissa (the song). That one is arranged beautifully and a masterpiece on its own.
"messy" what are you talking about. No more messy than Satan's fall
Put him to a true long test.. Moonsorrow - Jäästä Syntynyt l Varjojen Virta ;)
One of my favorite MF songs. Great album! But the song needs a few listens to get it.
king diamond - graveyard has so many catchy songs, maybe pick some song from there
in an interview for the sorceress, mikael akerfeldt said about opeth that he doesn't feel the music is good enough, which is why you get a variety of riffs and sections. he's unsure if anything he makes is worth listening to, so he just smashes it all together in one long stream of consciousness and calls it an album. when you listen to it, you can really hear what he means, like the chugging at the beginning of the sorceress and then pretty parts. i suspect its the same with king diamond and most creatives. i know from my own experience what it's like to think that everything you write is utter shit but you have to put something out, so you just put out whatever you came up with and call it prog.
Song was too chaotic for me.
I always liked this song but now that I listen to it again, yes it was too much. Three or four slowed down sections with yet another solo/instrumental part. Totally unnecessary. But that's King Diamond. His stuff is over the top, eccentric and theatrical.
HAhahaha
This is suffering for pianist lol
Have to agree with Judson. The song just kept going and going and felt directionless and meandering. Some tasty riffs, but to what point?
The Oak lived off generations of men and meant different things to them.
There is no point to music . It’s not how fast the song gets to its end …
Don't take to much time wirh Mercyful Fatae go to King Diamond. there are much more cool songs. You can take each song from the Abigail album, from the Portrait album, from the Puppetmaster and from Give me your Soul. there are less songs with stop and go and so on.
Lots of comments from someone who hasn't made it.. go play your piano let us know when you make it
Thanks for the input!
Не знаю, как по мне, очень странный выбор песни.
Should have a listen to Uninvited Guest, next , to see MF can do " more normal "😂songs too /../ I agree with both , the song has too many riff(some great) changes , and it gets a little anoying.
I guess he's not ready for some prog influenced great and iconic h.metal song like that. Sorry..
Alot of weird song choices on this channell 😅 Why not into the coven or evil? They are not so proggy.
Iced Earth - Dantes inferno
Time for another choice of Judson’s soon, no? and Electric Callboy!
If you like king 👑 diamond 💎 you should listen to a Swedish 🇸🇪 band called In Solitude they don’t exist anymore but they were great.
I mean, there is a theme in there but yeah, it could be a bit more cohesive. I don't mind either merciful fate or king diamond. I just could never stand his annoying headvoice. On this one it's okay since it's mostly used as backing vocals.
Please do some Adagio. Piano heavy songs like from my sleep to someone else, next profundis, and stringless violin won't disappoint I'm sure. 😁
This song is boring and doesn't show off his vocals, you should have played The Bell Witch.
Better yet, play King Diamond the band.
I have to unabashedly disagree. This song has some of the best riffs and solos you will ever hear.
Keep your dogshit opinions to yourself