Mercyful Fate

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Mercyful Fate
Origine Danemark
Activité 1981 à aujourd'hui
Genre(s) Heavy Metal
Label(s) Metal Blade Records
Site officiel http://www.covenworldwide.com
Derniers membres en date King Diamond
Hank Sherman
Mike Wead
Sharlee D'Angelo
Bjarne Thomas Holm


Mercyful Fate est un groupe de Heavy Metal danois fondé en 1981.

Mercyful Fate est reconnu au sein du milieu Metal pour avoir inspiré nombre de groupes de Thrash Metal et initié en partie les aspects visuels du Black Metal.

Certains puristes citent régulièrement Mercyful Fate, avec Venom, Bathory et Celtic Frost, comme étant l'un des groupes fondateurs du genre Black Metal.


Sommaire

Biographie

Discographie

  • Burning The Cross (Démo, 1981) - Autoproduction

1. Burning The Cross
2. Curse Of The Pharaohs
3. Return Of The Vampire
4. A Corpse Without Soul
5. On A Night Of Full Moon


Mercyful Fate
Mercyful Fate
  • Mercyful Fate (EP, 1982) - Rave-On

1. A Corpse Without Soul
2. Nuns Have No Fun
3. Doomed By The Living Dead
4. Devil Eyes




Melissa
Melissa

1. Evil
2. Curse Of The Pharaohs
3. Into The Coven
4. At The Sound Of The Demon Bell
5. Black Funeral
6. Satan's Fall
7. Melissa


Don't Break The Oath
Don't Break The Oath

1. A Dangerous Meeting
2. Nightmare
3. Desecration Of Souls
4. Night Of The Unborn
5. The Oath
6. Gypsy
7. Welcome Princes Of Hell
8. To One Far Away
9. Come To The Sabbath


The Beginning
The Beginning

1. Doomed By The Living Dead
2. A Corpse Without Soul
3. Nuns Have No Fun
4. Devil Eyes
5. Curse Of The Pharaohs (live)
6. Evil (live)
7. Satan's Fall (live)
8. Black Masses


Return Of The Vampire
Return Of The Vampire

1. Burning The Cross
2. Curse Of The Pharaohs
3. Return Of The Vampire
4. On A Night Of Fullmoon
5. A Corpse Without Soul
6. Death Kiss
7. Leave My Soul Alone
8. M.D.A. (Mission : Destroy Aliens)
9. You Asked For It


A Dangerous Meeting
A Dangerous Meeting

Mercyful Fate
1. Doomed By The Living Dead
2. A Corpse Without Soul
3. Evil
4. Curse Of The Pharaohs
5. A Dangerous Meeting
6. Gypsy
7. Come To The Sabbath

King Diamond (groupe)
8. The Candle
9. Charon
10. Halloween
11. No Presents For Christmas
12. Arrival
13. Abigail
14. Welcome Home
15. Sleepless Nights
16. Eye Of The Witch


In The Shadows
In The Shadows

1. Egypt
2. The Bell Witch
3. The Old Oak
4. Shadows
5. A Gruesome Time
6. Thirteen Invitations
7. Room Of Golden Air
8. Legend Of The Headless Rider
9. Is That You, Melissa ?
10. Return Of The Vampire... 1993


The Bell Witch
The Bell Witch

1. The Bell Witch
2. Is That You, Melissa ?
3. Curse Of The Pharaohs (live)
4. Egypt (live)
5. Come To The Sabbath (live)
6. Black Funeral (live)


Time
Time

1. Nightmare Be Thy Name
2. Angel Of Light
3. Witches' Dance
4. The Mad Arab
5. My Demon
6. Time
7. The Preacher
8. Lady In Black
9. Mirror
10. The Afterlife
11. Castillo Del Mortes


Into The Unknown
Into The Unknown

1. Lucifer
2. The Uninvited Guest
3. Ghost Of Change
4. Listen To The Bell
5. Fifteen Men (And A Bottle Of Rum)
6. Into The Unknown
7. Under The Spell
8. Deadtime
9. Holy Water
10. Ktulu (The Mad Arab Part II)


Dead Again
Dead Again

1. Torture (1629)
2. The Night
3. Since Forever
4. The Lady Who Cries
5. Banshee
6. Mandrake
7. Sucking Your Blood
8. Dead Again
9. Fear
10. Crossroads


9
9

1. Last Rites
2. Chruch Of Saint Anne
3. Sold My Soul
4. House On The Hill
5. Burn In Hell
6. The Grave
7. Insane
8. Kiss The Demon
9. Buried Alive
10. 9

Membres

  • Membres Actuels

- King Diamond - Chant (Black Rose (Dk), Brats, Danger Zone (Dk))
- Hank Shermann - Guitares (Brats, Fate (Dk), Zoser Mez, Gutrix, Shermann Soldiers, Virus 7, Force Of Evil, Rax Load, Stygia (US) (invité), Demonica)
- Mike Wead - Guitares (King Diamond, Abstrakt Algebra, Memento Mori, ex-Candlemass)
- Sharlee D'Angelo - Basse (Arch Enemy, ex-Sinergy, ex-Illwill, ex-Dismember, Witchery, Spiritual Beggars)
- Bjarne Thomas Holm - Batterie (Force Of Evil, Fate (Dk), Gutrix, Shermann Soldiers, Rax Load)


  • Anciens Membres


Guitares:
- Michael Denner (ex-King Diamond) (1982-85, 1993-96)
- Carsten Van Der Volsing (Brats)
- Benny Petersen (Pretty Maids, Evil (Dk), Encore)


Basse:
- Timi "Grabber" Hansen (ex-King Diamond) (1981-85, 1993-1994)


Batterie:
- Kim Ruzz (1982-1985)
- Snowy Shaw (ex-Dream Evil, ex-Notre Dame, ex-Illwill, ex-King Diamond, ex-Memento Mori, Therion)
 - Jan Musen
- "Old" Nick Smith (Danger Zone (Dk))
- Ole Frausing (Missing Link)
- Morten Nielsen (Apocalypse (Dk), Crime Academy, Furious Trauma, Red Warszawa, Zoser Mez, Shermann Soldiers)

Liens externes

http://www.covenworldwide.org/ - Site Officiel

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