did anybody else get into these guys solely due to seeing them on Beavis and Butthead btw
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 25 June 2016 13:44 (seven years ago) link
If like me you're either disinterested in or disappointed by any of the bands that get tagged with Mercyful Fate comparisons, you might want to look to Norway's Magister Templi. I think one reason I never checked them out was the Candlemass comparison, and I definitely hear that, but there's something in their music that takes me right back to hearing Fate for the first time, little guitar runs here and there, ghostly clanging cymbals, song shifts that catch you by surprise, a production that actually sounds alive. I just burned through several songs on their bandcamp and have bumped their two albums to the top of my ACQUIRE NOW list. (The vox are nothing like King's, though.)
They're on Cruz del Sur.
http://magistertempli.bandcamp.com/
And
― Devilock, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 20:53 (seven years ago) link
When I saw the "Family Ghost" video in 1987 I knew then and there I was seeing and hearing one of the the most insanely talented heavy metal bands in history. I still believe that. What a lineup, what innovation and flamboyance they brought to the genre.
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 21:19 (seven years ago) link
I had weird, malformed metal tastes in the early-going, but the first time I heard MF I was like "THIS, THIS, MORE OF THIS!". Just sounded so sinister, yet ear-catching, badass and occult. the 30 seconds I got to hear of whatever song it was were a delight.
the only reason I didn't start listening to them right away was I was still a Fundie and the Satanic lyrics put me off. the day I left that life behind I went and bought Melissa.
"Evil" is probably still my favorite metal song of all time.
it's weird that I didn't immediately love King Diamond as much, and yet nowadays probably listen to them more than MF, mostly because they have a bigger catalog.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 00:58 (seven years ago) link
WANT
http://67.media.tumblr.com/5e3472ddf7c5483c0c326994a64e11ca/tumblr_nt3qyvOdgn1uqx9h3o1_1280.jpg
― report your crimes to my burning ghost cock (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 20:57 (seven years ago) link
Dont bweak it
http://i66.tinypic.com/s3kqko.jpg
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 March 2017 01:36 (seven years ago) link
That's awesome. I'm wearing my Don't Break The Oath shirt tonight to a show.
― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 13 March 2017 01:41 (seven years ago) link
I have the title in the album font on my left forearm, high five Neanderthal
― though the tempest rages, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 13 March 2017 01:55 (seven years ago) link
That album was one of the first of many i bought with financial aid that was meant for college
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 March 2017 02:05 (seven years ago) link
damn great tat neanderthal
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Monday, 13 March 2017 02:06 (seven years ago) link
^^ excellent work
― a but (brimstead), Monday, 13 March 2017 02:36 (seven years ago) link
thx guys. it hurt a lot more than my other 4, but been wanting that one for eons.
so, Mercyful Fate POX time? here's mine...
1) Evil (probably the only band where my #1 song has p much never changed)2) A Dangerous Meeting3) The Bell Witch4) The Oath5) Nightmare Be Thy Name (this is a late addition - I love Time more than I used to now)6) Black Funeral7) Satan's Fall8) Nightmare9) Melissa10) Torture (1629) (this is one from Dead Again, which while not a great album...this is a killer opening track)
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 March 2017 03:43 (seven years ago) link
Oh god.
EvilNuns Have No FunDevil Eyes Melissa TimeDesecration of SoulsNightmareCurse of the PharoahsIs That You, Melissa?Into the Coven
― jmm, Monday, 13 March 2017 16:13 (seven years ago) link
In the Shadows tonight. god I still love this one. helluva comeback album.
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 04:02 (seven years ago) link
Evil*NightmareA Corpse Without Soul Into the CovenTimeA Dangerous MeetingDevil EyesMelissaThe OathReturn of the Vampire
* wanted to put something else at #1, but…
― Not raving but drooling (contenderizer), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 06:28 (seven years ago) link
I should have had Corpse Without Soul in mine. So many moments in that song.
― jmm, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 14:01 (seven years ago) link
Can we all agree that "Welcome Princess of Hell" is a better title than "Welcome Princes of Hell," the correct one?
(Also, Neanderthal, that fucking tattoo is amazing.)
― Comment elles torment (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 10:45 (seven years ago) link
it will always be "princess" to me and I have always thought this
― People like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 13:58 (seven years ago) link
Amen.
― Comment elles torment (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 02:18 (seven years ago) link
princess of hell otm
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 July 2018 13:53 (five years ago) link
nothing but respect for MY princess
― J. Sam, Sunday, 8 July 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
ALL HAIL SATAN
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 20 August 2018 01:28 (five years ago) link
🙌 and do the 🤘
― Devilock, Monday, 20 August 2018 07:44 (five years ago) link
The Lost in Vegas dudes tackled "Melissa" on the weekend: blown away by the music, tried to figure out what to do with the voice
― The inexorable rise of identity condiments (Sund4r), Monday, 20 August 2018 11:49 (five years ago) link
if they don't announce a US tour for the MF reunion next year, I may fly overseas to catch it.
still bums me the fuck out that whatever issue exists between King and Denner can't be resolved, cos the Denner/Shermann albums ripped, but 2/5ths of Fate is better than 0/5ths of Fate, I guess....plus it's not like Wead is bad.
they also claim to have written new material.
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Sunday, 15 September 2019 23:46 (four years ago) link
RIP Timi Hansen :(
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 November 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
Very sad. Hansen anchored two of the most ridiculously talented metal bands of our generation, Fate and King Diamond's band circa 1987.
― A. Begrand, Monday, 4 November 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
King just posted a very touching tribute message to him on FB.
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 November 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link
I went from loving Dead Again to hating it and haven't played it since 1999.
Threw it on today.... it's actually quite good! Not really any all-time classics on it, but mega consistent.
"Banshee" is my fav
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Monday, 8 March 2021 22:07 (three years ago) link
cannot stop listening to them lately. I remember loving the last album, 9, when it came out, then later souring on it when I felt it was too 'modernized trend hopping" MF. I listened to it again last night and I don't think that's fair.
there's a LITTLE bit of that in "Sold My Soul", and the song structures are mega-simplified, but they'd even done that on Time with much success. there's definitely some really good material on there, like "Last Rites", "Burn in Hell", "Church of St Anne". some forgettable, but it's listenable!
Into the Unknown is the one I barely know whatsoever. It was actually the album that delayed my MF-dom by 3 years, because I had gotten excited by the MF music I heard them play on Beavis and Butthead....only to hear the opening track be a Satanic invocation ("our father, who art in Hell!"), and me being a Fundamentalist, that snapped the door shut.
I don't think a niche thread is worth it, but what's everybody's POV for Mercyful Fate?
Mine is...
"Evil""Bell Witch""A Dangerous Meeting""The Oath""Nightmare Be Thy Name"
Don't Break the Oath MOSTLY works as a continuous album for me, but those two tracks mentioned are ones I can listen standalone.
I do love Melissa a lot but I wanted to be inclusive of other albums.
― "Salvation Army FUCK!" (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 March 2021 14:53 (three years ago) link
I WAS BORN ON THE CEMETERYUNDER THE SIGN OF THE MOOOOOOOOON
― brimstead, Saturday, 8 May 2021 00:57 (three years ago) link
Best song ever. I can never grow tired of discussing Fate
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Saturday, 8 May 2021 00:58 (three years ago) link
yeah I just got the CD reissues from last year and they’re totally kicking my ass.
― brimstead, Saturday, 8 May 2021 01:06 (three years ago) link
OH, THEY SHOULD HAVE KNOWNNOT TO PLAY WITH THE POWERS OF HELL
― pomenitul, Saturday, 8 May 2021 01:19 (three years ago) link
Quoth some RYM rando:
Half a star lower than it deserves due to insanely evil lyrics, espicially off of "The Oath", which is obviously the worst track off the album cause of the evil lyrics, but still pretty great album overall.
WTF???
― pomenitul, Saturday, 8 May 2021 01:24 (three years ago) link
Can't believe a metal fan had silly opinions
― Chickpeas, Scamps and Beeves (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 8 May 2021 01:25 (three years ago) link
Ok but you gotta admit that a metal fan docking off a star because the lyrics are too 'insanely evil' is something else.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 8 May 2021 01:27 (three years ago) link
*half a star
lol the evil lyrics are one of the selling points.
I FORBID THEE ENTRANCE HEREEE, YOU STAND ON HALLOWED GROUNNNNDD
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Saturday, 8 May 2021 02:56 (three years ago) link
I once saw a RYM reviewer downgrade an album because the lyrics scared him. It wasn't even metal or sinister at all (Cairo - Conflict & Dreams). Review is gone now.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 8 May 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
THE DUDE HAS ACTUAL BONES ON HIS MIC STAND YOU GOTTA EMBRACE THE GLORIOUS SATANIC EVIL! HOWL LIKE A WOLF AND A WITCH WILL OPEN THE DOOR!!
― brimstead, Saturday, 8 May 2021 23:34 (three years ago) link
This is how the boomers must have felt when people started docking points for too many guitar solos.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 9 May 2021 10:34 (three years ago) link
excessive guitar solos + micstand bones-level evil = my shit
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 9 May 2021 12:50 (three years ago) link
Eh, I knew Christian kids in the 80s and 90s who loved the sound of Led Zeppelin or Marilyn Manson but were terrified of the occult or Satanic content. There's a reason Christian rock existed. Really don't think it's generational. If anything, I imagine it's less common now.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Sunday, 9 May 2021 12:59 (three years ago) link
Lol Marilyn Manson basically tore my church apart. The youth group leader demanded one of our members "break" their Manson CD when she found out she owned one. They did!
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Sunday, 9 May 2021 14:18 (three years ago) link
One of those rare occasions where I fully stand behind the church.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 9 May 2021 15:29 (three years ago) link
there's like a live stream going on about the show in Berlin tonight?
https://www.twitch.tv/kingdiamondofficial
― StanM, Tuesday, 14 June 2022 17:32 (two years ago) link
They sound great in the new live clips coming out.
Wish I could go to the Norway date (with Candlemass, Tribulation, and Unto Others)
― jmm, Tuesday, 14 June 2022 23:52 (two years ago) link
holy fuck the new song whips ASS.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 00:42 (two years ago) link