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2 unusual facts about Mercyful Fate


A Dangerous Meeting

A Dangerous Meeting is a compilation album of King Diamond and Mercyful Fate songs.

The Best of Mercyful Fate

The Best of Mercyful Fate is a compilation album by the band Mercyful Fate from years 1982-1984.


Corpse paint

In the 1980s, Hellhammer, Venom, Death SS and King Diamond of Mercyful Fate (who used corpse paint as early as 1978 in his band Black Rose) were the first extreme metal groups to use corpse paint.

Final Warning

Among them: Dead Kennedys, Scream, Dr. Know, The Exploited, Charged GBH, Hüsker Dü, Minutemen, D.R.I. and Mercyful Fate, but they never played outside the Pacific Northwest.

Henrik Flyman

This band included all members from Evil Masquerade (except for Dennis Buhl) as well as Richard Ofsoski, Mats Levén (Therion, Yngwie Malmsteen), Snowy Shaw (Therion, Mercyful Fate, Dream Evil), Tony Kakko (Sonata Arctica), Glen Drover (Megadeth, King Diamond) and Tony Mills (TNT, Shy) just to name a few.

Narqath

Narqath has said that when he formed Azaghal, he was influenced and inspired by the Early Norwegian black metal scene, but also older bands like Mercyful Fate and Venom.


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