Last month, black metal progenitors Mercyful Fate played their first show in over two decades, thus kicking off a massive reunion tour. But one person who’s not as delighted about this as many ...

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 ...

Mercyful Fate on Tuesday announced they had decided to part ways with bassist Joey Vera, who had been performing in the reunited heavy metal band for the last five years. Saying the decision was ...

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 kicked off their first U.S. tour in 20 years at the end of October. It’s a trek that was years in the making due to pandemic-related delays, and timed after what was, at the time, the ...

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 ...

The post Mercyful Fate Play First Concert in 23 Years, Premiere New Song “The Jackal of Salzburg” appeared first on Consequence. Heavy metal pioneers Mercyful Fate made their first live appearance in ...

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 ...

The reunited Mercyful Fate, which performed last month in Las Vegas, will embark on its first North American tour in two decades this fall. The group, which will be supported by thrashers Kreator and ...

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 ...