"Melissa" is the full-length debut for legendary Danish proto black / heavy metal band Mercyful Fate. Released in 1983, "Melissa" featured a unique sound for that time which was somewhere between early Judas Priest and the darker dirges of Black Sabbath chocked with a haunting and brooding evil atmosphere, aggressive musicianship, high pitched shrieks and falsettos and lyrics driven by darkness, death and Satanism. These radical and controversial elements would help inspire the future black metal scene along with acts like Venom, and later Bathory. The album cove… read more
"Melissa" is the full-length debut for legendary Danish proto black / heavy metal band Mercyful Fate. Released in 1983, "Melissa"… read more
"Melissa" is the full-length debut for legendary Danish proto black / heavy metal band Mercyful Fate. Released in 1983, "Melissa" featured a unique sound for that tim… read more
Mercyful Fate is an influential heavy metal band that formed in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1981 from the remaining members of Hank Shermann's band Brats and King Diamond's band Black Rose. In early 1981 they helped out Michael Denner with demos for his band Danger Zone. Soon, Shermann, Denner, Diamond, and Denner's bass player Timi Grabber realized their potential as a unit and started performing as Mercyful Fate. The band experienced the usual member changes for a new band, as Denner left (and later returned). In addition, the drummer position was a revolving door, but K… read more