Spoiler alert: If you don't want to see what the upcoming Mercyful Fate tour might offer, look away now. Otherwise, relish in all the glory of the Danish act's set from Wacken Open Air 2022 featuring ...

Mercyful Fate are the kind of band for whom the phrase “they sound like X but on steroids” was created. The group didn’t reinvent the wheel, exactly, so much as they took elements from the hard rock ...

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 ...

In the early '80s, the Danish band Mercyful Fate pioneered a wild, theatrical, occult-heavy strain of heavy metal that proved hugely influential on all sorts of subgenres; thrash and black metal would ...

Setlist Mercyful Fate Evil The Bell Witch The Uninvited Guest Satans Fall Come To The Sabbath King Diamond Welcome Home The Invisible Guests Sleepless Nights Meet Me ...