In Round 1 in the Headbanger Region, we've got Black Sabbath's eponymous debut battling Mercyful Fate's Melissa! Black Sabbath gave birth to heavy metal when they released their self-titled debut in ...

Mercyful Fate Brings Metal to YouTube: Whether he’s performing solo or with Danish proto black metal pioneers Mercyful Fate, King Diamond puts on a show and is worth seeing, and his teutonic voice is ...

For the first time in roughly 26 years, we’re closer than ever to a new Mercyful Fate album. There’s been talk about something new coming from King Diamond and his crew for a while now, but a recent ...

The post Mercyful Fate to record new songs and play first shows in 20 years appeared first on Consequence of Sound. Mercyful Fate, the legendary Danish heavy metal band led by singer King Diamond, ...

In a new interview with King Diamond, the possibility of some Mercyful Fate shows suddenly seems plausible. Eddie Trunk recently invited King Diamond and Metal Blade Records’ Brian Slagel on his ...

Few if any bands are as influential on extreme metal as Mercyful Fate. Though modern-day fans of, say, goregrind might find the Danish band’s galloping rhythms and King Diamond‘s piercing falsetto to ...

Where would black metal imagery be without the excellent album Melissa? Quite simply not the same place that it currently stands, that much is very true. Melissa was instrumental in the well thought ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Mercyful Fate are back! The band has announced the reunion on the incomplete 9 era lineup, declaring that they will be playing an undetermined amount of shows in 2020. A statement was made on King ...

Mercyful Fate are heading out on their first headlining tour in North America in more than 20 years. The Danish black metal group will kick things off in Dallas this October, making their way through ...