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    Mercyful Fate is a Danish heavy metal band from Copenhagen, formed in 1981 by vocalist King Diamond and guitarist Hank Shermann. Influenced by progressive...
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  • Melissa is the debut studio album by Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate, released in October 1983 through Roadrunner Records. It was the first album...
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    Mercyful Fate, a Danish heavy metal band, consists of seven studio releases, three compilations, three singles, and six music videos. Mercyful Fate was...
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  • 9 is the seventh studio album by Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate. 9 was recorded during February and March 1999 and was released on 15 June 1999...
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  • Time is the fourth studio album by the Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate. It was released on 25 October 1994 through Metal Blade Records. The track...
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  • Mercyful Fate is the first official release by Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate. It is also known as Nuns Have No Fun, the "first album" or the "EP"...
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  • heavy metal band Mercyful Fate, released on 20 August 1996 through Metal Blade Records. It is the most commercially successful Mercyful Fate album to date...
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  • by Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate, released on 7 September 1984 through Roadrunner Records. The style Mercyful Fate employed on Don't Break the...
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    King Diamond (category Mercyful Fate members)
    far-reaching falsetto screams. He is the lead vocalist and lyricist for both Mercyful Fate and the eponymous King Diamond. He also plays keyboards and guitars...
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  • The Beginning is a compilation album by Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate released on 24 June 1987 through Roadrunner Records consisting of the Nuns...
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  • Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate, released on 9 June 1998 through Metal Blade Records. It marks the first album from Mercyful Fate that Michael Denner...
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    a Danish musician best known for his work with the heavy metal band Mercyful Fate. Shermann started playing guitar in 1977, influenced by the likes of...
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  • The Best of Mercyful Fate is a compilation album by the band Mercyful Fate from years 1982-1984. "Doomed by the Living Dead" (King Diamond, Hank Shermann)...
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  • was a Danish bass player. He played in the Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate from 1981 to 1985 and from 1992 to 1993, and its successor project King...
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  • (Kim Bendix Petersen), Livia has also contributed to Diamond's band Mercyful Fate. She lives with her husband in Dallas, Texas, USA, and she's an American...
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    the group Mercyful Fate, and decided to form a new band under the King Diamond moniker, as it was already known from the initial Mercyful Fate era. Since...
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  • In the Shadows (album) (category Mercyful Fate albums)
    Shadows is the third full-length studio album by Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate. It is the first offering of the band since their reunion in 1992. This...
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    Snowy Shaw (category Mercyful Fate members)
    played with many heavy metal bands, like King Diamond, Dream Evil, Mercyful Fate, IllWill, and Memento Mori. Snowy is adept at playing guitar as well...
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    be more associated with metal performers. Vocalist King Diamond of Mercyful Fate and used face paint similar to corpse paint as early as 1978 in his...
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    Mike Wead (category Mercyful Fate members)
    Sanity, Candlemass, The Project Hate. Currently Wead is the guitarist of Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, and bibleblack. Dead Again (1998) 9 (1999) Abigail II:...
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  • Return of the Vampire (category Mercyful Fate albums)
    Return of the Vampire is a compilation album of rare demo tracks by Mercyful Fate recorded before their first, official release in 1982. It was released...
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  • black metal. This "first wave" included bands such as Venom, Bathory, Mercyful Fate, Hellhammer and Celtic Frost. A second wave arose in the early 1990s...
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    Sharlee D'Angelo (category Mercyful Fate members)
    as a studio session player or full member. These include Arch Enemy, Mercyful Fate, Dismember, King Diamond and Witchery. He plays with Dunlop picks and...
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    result, Venom were part of the early wave of the genre, along with Mercyful Fate and Bathory. The band was formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1978. The...
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    covers of songs by Diamond Head, Killing Joke, the Misfits, Thin Lizzy, Mercyful Fate, Black Sabbath and others, and the second disc featured the original...
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    Kreator promoted Hate Über Alles with a world tour, including supporting Mercyful Fate on their first North American tour in over 20 years, and touring Europe...
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    released on AOR Heaven in EU and Rubicon in Japan. The band Fate formed when former Mercyful Fate guitarist Hank Shermann (René Krolmark), Maxim Reality singer...
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  • Institute L.A. Guns Last in Line Living Colour Lordi Manowar Megadeth Mercyful Fate Metal Church Michael Schenker Ministry Misery Index Moonspell Mötley...
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  • Báthory, they are considered pioneers of black metal (alongside Venom and Mercyful Fate) and Viking metal. The book Lords of Chaos described Bathory's first...
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    King Diamond was formed in 1985, after the dissolution of the group Mercyful Fate, by vocalist King Diamond, guitarists Andy LaRocque and Michael Denner...
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