Mercyful Fate is reportedly exhausting at work on a brand new album, and again in June of 2022, gave followers a style of the brand new materials once they debuted a song called “The Jackal Of Salzburg” in Germany in addition to at Psycho Las Vegas.
Whilst you look ahead to additional information about such document, you’ll be able to full your assortment of the band’s work on wax by getting your fingers on the band’s traditional albums Within the Shadows, Time, Into the Unknown, and 9, now out there in new colours. You possibly can order yours from here, or at this location in case you dwell in Europe.
Moreover, in honor of those unholy releases, Mercyful Fate have additionally created new merch designs out there at their US store and European store.
The band’s present lineup is King Diamond on vocals, Hank Shermann and Mike Wead on guitars, Bjarne T. Holm on drums and Joey Vera on bass. Final we heard about new Mercyful Fate (and King Diamond) was from Diamond again in June, who mentioned in an interview with The Electrical Theater With Clown that he and the blokes are engaged on it.
“There’s rather a lot within the works proper now,” mentioned Diamond. “I am writing with Hank for Mercyful Fate and writing with Andy [La Rocque, guitar] for King Diamond and writing alone for King Diamond. For King Diamond, it is an album that is gonna be referred to as The Institute, which is an element one in all two; there will be two full albums that shall be finishing that full story. Because the title says, it is gonna be some creepy, bizarre stuff. And for Mercy, I even have the title, however I am not giving it out to anyone in the intervening time. We have now the entrance cowl for the brand new Mercy too. It’s totally right, very proper for Mercyful Fate. It’s totally again to fundamentals.
“In my view with each Mercy and King Diamond — much more King Diamond, I might say — all vocals are gonna be lead vocals once more, like they have been within the outdated days for me. It did not matter if it was a choir singing on the correct or the left aspect or no matter; they might nonetheless go in and decide up components of the lyrics to progress the story and so forth. So it is gonna be something goes with the vocals, for positive — again to the outdated model. And for Mercy too; it is gonna be very old school. Hank is writing very very like the outdated days. And it is good to really feel that we will seize that once more.
“In order that’s the 2 albums which might be being labored on, that shall be carried out by the point we exit on tour once more, I am positive.”




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