Mercyful Fate - Evil | Reaction

[@ajaykiran973]

Dave Mustaine considered Mercyful fate his favourite band before Mercyful fate broke up in 1987. Hank Sherman and Micheal Denner are one of the greatest guitar duos in metal.

[@jaimegomez8450]

Mercyful Fate disbanded in 1984, after the Don't break the oath tour.

[@f3ynman44]

Mustaine had good taste!

[@t1naftore]

Mustaine also didn't allow kind diamond to play in his venue/tour cuz he became a Catholic.

[@yzettasmith4194]

@@t1naftore Dave went through a phase when he first converted where he was afraid of encouraging/allowing anything he perceived as disrespectful of god. It's a stupid phase that new christians connected to non-mainline denominations go through, I did the same thing when I was dumb and believed in all that bullshit. He's lightened up now, even plays The Conjuring on stage. I hope he apologized to King Diamond...shitty way to do a friend.

[@andrewmcgill9544]

Dave is a dbag

[@itmightbme]

I forgot to add, you need to hear this entire album! Its beyond amazing!

[@TheChzoronzon]

Yep, I get goosebumps remembering my old 14 y.o having his brain melted with this vynil...that was so far out and so different...and that tasty cover (ten times better than Oath's, imho) They were almost prog, in their satanic way :D... I mean, Satan's Fall...

[@ZjawbreakerZ]

Melissa and Don't Break the Oath albums are easily amongst the most ripped off (and of course influential) albums in metal history. If you don't believe, go ask Metallica. And don't be fooled by the sound in the albums, it might straight off sound like typical heavy metal but they're referred to as being one of the earliest black metal bands along with Celtic Frost (let's add Hellhammer too) and Venom, mostly due to the lyrical themes in their songs. In a sense yes, this song (Evil) put the real evil in metal when it came out back in 1983.

[@piotrkawka7343]

This is the truth

[@terrypatterson1575]

Yup yup

[@jamesyoung7560]

Funny story about Hellhammer. My friend and I met "Tom G Warrior" at a Celtic Frost show in Portland, OR around 1985 (the show was them, Running wild and Voivod) and he was a REALLY nice guy and chatted with us for about a half hour. As we were talking some dude came up and said "You guys are great, you sound a lot like this other band I really like called Hellhammer!" When the guy said that Tom turned to Gary and I with a big grin and said "Hellhammer? Who the hell is Hellhammer??" the guy said, oh dude, I didn't mean anything and disappeared.. Lol! it was a good laugh since the guy didn't know that Hellhammer was Tom's previous band.

[@SuspiraVictim1]

"If you don't believe, go ask Metallica." And just by typing that, You've prove your point in SECONDS! Take my fucking like.

[@l.salisbury1253]

Just before recording this album the producer asked the band for lyric sheet so he'd know what he'd be working with. After reading it he came back to the band asking "You guys SURE you wanna press THIS on vinyl...?!"

[@Lazze376]

Back in Mercyful Fate days 81-84 they were pretty Much THE Metal band highly satanic lyrics for the Time and King himself was very active Within Anton Laveys Church of satan, their lyrics was for the Time so satanic that they clearly fell Into The genre 1st wave Black Metal/Heavy Metal mostly in retrospect musically there was very accomplished musicians playing their own brand Of straight up Heavy Metal in Those early days we had Heavy Metal and Speed Metal even Than Thrash was Born it didn’t say Thrash bands but speed Metal bands, genres wasn’t the jungle of subgenres and sub sub genres of today. Very important band in the evolution of More extreme Metal.

[@johnbrown9076]

I met him in 1984. Very nice guy. Stayed at the the record shop until every fan got their autograph or pic. He used to sign with upside down crosses. MF is legendary.

[@Skalarwelle]

The album name actually comes from the name of a human skull, which King Diamond acquired somehow back then and it was said, that it belonged to a witch named Melissa, who was burned alive. That's what the title track Melissa is about basically. It's one of their best songs, so maybe check that one out next!

[@midnite8729]

I think he took it from his friend's father.. who was a medical teacher and had a drawer full of skulls/bones. He brought it home and wondered about the person's life and eventually came up with the story about melissa

[@mace2tuRnt]

@Big Homie Steve The Metal Head unfortunately it was stolen :(

[@duffelbag1127]

King Diamond’s vocal ingenuity, harmonies, and placement are legendary! Totally one of a kind. It’s BS he’s not in the rock ‘n’ roll HOF!

[@shagstars]

HOF is BS anyway

[@bobweiram6321]

The R&B influence is very strong.

[@konradkantor]

I was really just searching for older bootlegs of this song performed live, but gave your video a shot. Your grin is contagious, so I watched the whole thing with a big ol smile on my face. Always a pleasure to experience THE KING with others. Cheers, brother.

[@MetalAsylumNJ]

Mercyful Fate! Let's go! First two albums are brilliant for the time waayy ahead of everyone else. And those 90s albums got some great songs too, especially In The Shadows. Time, Into the Unknown

[@johnfoster5295]

Check out Judas Priest Screaming For Vengeance from 1982. Rob has the high pitched scream in that one. And it is an excellent song.

[@drummerw17]

Excellent song and excellent album 1983 Melissa!!! The anthology of pure vampire progressive black metal music.

[@MortanAMrk]

also that album cover is still so beautiful

[@robc1394]

Don’t break the oath has to be one of the top three metal albums of all time ! - check it out

[@metadeth578]

Melissa and Don't Break the Oath are my fav Heavy metal albums!

[@itmightbme]

Mercyful Fate is sooo underrated! So good! ❤❤❤

[@UBsmacked420]

I love when guitars sing!

[@nmeissner5150]

She came slidin' down the alleyway like butter drippin' off a hot biscuit. That’s what that guitar solo sounds like

[@thrashattack2185]

Fuck yea! Check out his old stuff from Mercyful fate, like Satan’s fall, devil eyes, curse of the pharaon etc

[@drummerw17]

Amazing songs definitely 🤘😈🤘👍

[@chargindave70]

Friend recorded this song on a local college radio station. Early 84. blew us away.. heaviest thing we heard was maiden and priest. never looked back, fucking legends

[@addictedtocraic]

I saw these guys in Toronto when they reformed in the early 90s. Absolutely amazing live.

[@olorin9642]

Gypsy or Come to the Sabbath for the next reaction

[@Robot666House]

Don't break the oath is an amazing album. First I ever heard and been my favorite metal band ever since 17 years ago. The song A Dangerous Meeting is amazing. Its the first track and had me hooked instantly. Rewound the first 30 seconds when his voice kicks in like 50 times when I first heard it.

[@chaospoet]

I saw the King back in 2014 and at the end of one song he went straight into this and the place went completely mental. Afterwards he just looked at the audience, hung his head low for a second, and went "You're not going to let me get away with playing only ONE Mercyful Fate song are you?" To which we all collectively shouted "NO!" And he went into Come To The Sabbath. Come To The Sabbath and The Lady In Black are my two favorite Fate songs and either is my recommendation.

[@jamoandb8470]

Got the cover of this album tattooed on my back about four hours ago! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@soulfly391]

Listen to the songs, Melissa, The Oath! Both Melissa and Don't break the Oath are masterpieces of albums you can't go wrong listening to them.

[@autumnphillips151]

You should know that the lyrics of “The Oath” were entirely copied from the band Coven’s 1969 album _Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls,_ the final track of which is a 13-minute-long track called “Satanic Mass”. I wish that King Diamond would have mentioned them.

[@captaincapitalism264]

My favorite tune of theirs, I think. That first verse truly epitomizes dark metal: I was born in the cemetery Under the sign of the moon Raised from my grave, by the dead. And I was made a mercenary Oh in the legions of Hell And now I'm king of pain, I'm insane! It took me a while to come around to King Diamond fandom, his singing specifically, but musically he's always crafted solid heavy metal.

[@Outlawtorn3711]

HALFORD HAS BEEN SINGING HIGH NOTES WITH priest since 1974 btw

[@TheAdventuresofTNT]

Thank you for this.

[@Outlawtorn3711]

@@TheAdventuresofTNT no probs T. I got you

[@germanmusicjournalist4356]

@ The Adventures Of TNT: When you want to "start" with MERCYFUL FATE, then take the songs "Doomed By The Living Dead" or "A Corpse Without Soul" from the EP (1982).The first album "Melissa" (she was a fictive witch, so it is not the name of a former girlfriend) came out in 1983. Yes, "Evil" is on this album, but if you ask me, this track does not belong to the great songs of "Melissa". I prefer "Into The Coven", "Satan's Fall" and "Curse Of The Pharaohs". Their best album in my opinion is "Don't Break The Oath" (1984) with superior songs like "Come To The Sabbath", "Welcome Princess Of Hell", "The Oath", "A Dangerous Meeting" and "Gypsy". Btw., "Abigail" is also not a name of a former girlfriend. Abigail was a real person. She was the mother of a girl, which (the girl) died on July 7, 1777.

[@Nissardpertugiu]

Before 1974 , in Hiroshima too . And in 1973 Priest too But the way Halford hit the high notes is very different mainly to how King does Halford : Full and mixed voice King diamond : Falsetto .

[@generoberts9151]

Yes T needs to hear Judas Priest “Victim of Changes” from Sad Wings of Destiny or even live.

[@jamoandb8470]

Also, just a quick note, Priest was singing falsettos by 1976. Love your reactions! Keep em’ coming!

[@vladmoriendi]

A rare cut is "Nun's have no fun". That's one of their best.

[@steely666]

Night of the Unborn is amazing.

[@ericsalon5260]

My favourite Mercyful Fate song

[@midnite8729]

This song is great & the lyrics lol ! You can start with any early Fate stuff - Melissa, Don't Break the Oath, & Nuns Have No Fun ep (their 1st). 'Desecration of Souls' is a great song off Don't Breath the Oath to check out!

[@sevyxuoir6714]

They introduced me in metal world in 1984 if I remember well…I was shocked and all my kiss records were used as frisbee after

[@jtank7276]

Mercyful Fate/King Diamond my fav since I was a kid... I appreciate your video and hope you cover more... I love many genres of music, so I look forward to seeing more of your channel... I was recommended here because of this band, so props to your video🍻

[@ericv7720]

Mercyful Fate was one of the pioneers of progressive metal, and King himself was heavily influenced by bands like Rush, Thin Lizzy, BOC, Uriah Heep, in addition to Alice Cooper and Judas Priest. Interestingly, the opening riff to "Satan's Fall," also on the Melissa album, was lifted from Scorpions' "Polar Nights," found on that band's record, "Virgin Killer" (released in 1976) as sort of an Easter egg.

[@denmark2680]

Love that you’re reacting to Danish music like 🇩🇰🤘Mercyful Fate and Volbeat🇩🇰🤘

[@drunkduck9854]

Nice vid man. A couple of notes... About Rob Halford taking possible influence from King Diamond, its definitely the other way around because you can hear Rob's falsetto on Judas Priest songs like "dreamer deceiver" and "Victim of Changes" which are from '76 while Mercyful Fate started in the early 80's. and Judas Priest has in general been a huge influence on Mercyful Fate's sound which you could hear more once you get more acquainted with both bands. Also Melissa comes from the name of a real human skull king had (tho idk the full story with that or with the name Abigail) And I would reccomend going chronologically from Mercyful Fate to King Diamond as the best route

[@mrvinyl-mrchili9583]

Yea one of the Best bands from denmark

[@EvilForgemaster]

You know I've been waiting for a KD or MF reaction when I almost got a heart attack when I saw the video to my homepage. Love this reaction man, thanks a lot for this.

[@BlackieNuff]

Actually, Halford was belting out those high pitches since 1982 (Screaming For Vengeance - check that album out, especially the title track), maybe earlier, lol.

[@BlastbeatsLOL]

As far as full length albums go, this IS the beginning mate.

[@beepboop204]

some them first wave black metal bands still hold up really good to this day

[@BrianSherman-TheTVGod]

Legend. King Diamond is about as heavy as I go. PS - Make sure you have the lyrics up when you do Abigail!

[@addictedtocraic]

If any album deserved to be made into a movie it's Abigail. Pure storytelling and songwriting genius.

[@metadeth578]

Abigail a great King Diamond album

[@davidbarrows8833]

Btw Melissa is a bad ass song too

[@andrewstrom8157]

Listen to A Corpse Without Soul, or any of the songs off of the original EP (Nuns Have No Fun, Doomed by the Living Dead, Devil Eyes) if you want to go all the way back. Those are all classic tracks.

[@kevinhazelbaker8765]

Yeah. Return of the Vampire .

[@jamesyoung7560]

I think the most "hardcore" lyric in this song is "And when you're down, beyond the ground, I'll dig up your body again, and make love to shame" LOL!!!! "Cold Ethyl" to "Evil" to "A little piece of heaven" necrophilia alive and well in rock music!

[@maximilianschmid9890]

"Vacca bell...Lucifers' Hammer bj Gverralord featschrd on Metal Massacre 2."

[@johnbrown9076]

I know it's a different song but, the most true metal lyric ever is "bring me the blood of the newborn child". I saw MF in 1984... absolutely amazing. Exciter opened and killed it too. Motorhead was the headliner and literally blew the doors open. Still a top 3 show of mine.

[@MortanAMrk]

that what happens when your born in a cemmetery

[@TheAdventuresofTNT]

Lol

[@autumnphillips151]

Under the sign of the moon.

[@ericaguilar8147]

I like ur reaction !! Mercyful fate rules. Cheers

[@kennethsoriano537]

Respect homie! Now you're exploring music, even if you don't like, respect!

[@Gambenoful]

this whole album goes hard.

[@HooLeeYo]

"The Oath" from Mercyful Fate and "The Candle" from King Diamond. You're welcome.

[@autumnphillips151]

You should know that the lyrics of “The Oath” were entirely copied from the band Coven’s 1969 album _Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls,_ the final track of which is a 13-minute-long track called “Satanic Mass”. I wish that King Diamond would have mentioned them.

[@joesmith8725]

Man, this was a classic metal album you listening to! lol. MF is perfect for Halloween season.

[@lukasnorkunas7980]

according to wikipedia, Judas Priest formed in 1969 :o

[@johntheisen6791]

Big fan. Saw them on the Don’t Break the Oath tour Halloween night at the Metro In Chicago. It was amazing.

[@maximilianschmid9890]

"Vill thej plej a sonh satsch asz thiss on jovr C.M.T. tyyp habs? Mie thinks not, vhat vitth thiss beinh a cantrj tuun."

[@MARSHOMEWORLD]

This was a brain melting hybrid of new wave of British heavy metal style riffing, mixed with way more Progressive elements and extended musicality. Mercyful Fate worthy act to beat in terms of advanced musicianship in the metal genre brother. At least within the underground metal scene anyway. You can hear in the production that it's not quite metal yet in so much as it is got a hard rock kind of sound to the guitars they had not really figured out the super crunch yet. That transition comes with Metallica and Kill em All. Really one of the first times the super over driven palm-muted guitar crunch. They were still struggling here from an engineering standpoint with diamonds voice here. There is a lot of layers of Reverb And Delay etcetera etcetera that kind of make it sound murky, but it does have a overall vibe to it that is pretty damn spooky. This is considered Proto Black Metal by the way, largely because of the predominance of occult and satanic lyrics. I'm sure someone else's probably touched on this already in the comments, but Halford proceeded King Diamond and was an influence on diamond.

[@Wagoo]

You're deaf if you think this is "not quite metal yet" 🙄

[@MARSHOMEWORLD]

@@Wagoo if you go back you might just notice I was referencing the production of the album and the engineering.. not the actual music or songwriting.

[@WinF64]

Yes - deep dive into Mercyful Fate, then King DIamond. It's all good.

[@germanmusicjournalist4356]

@@WinF64 Being an atheistic satanist like the King himself, MERCYFUL FATE and KING DIAMOND are important to me. Nevertheless, I cannot remember any really outstanding song on "9", "Into The Unknown", "Dead Again", "The Graveyard", "Abigail 2", "The Puppet Master" and "Give Me Your Soul Please". And the new stuff of both bands? Well, there's only the song "The Jackal Of Salzburg" by MERCYFUL FATE. I'm not blown away, sorry.

[@knarffit]

Rob halford has been singing in a falsetto voice since the 70’s. Mercyful Fate we’re highly influenced by 70’s era Judas Priest. However, Kings falsetto and overall vocal style is nothing like Halford’s. both singers are very unique but no other vocalist has sounded like King Diamond before or has since.

[@shagstars]

6:20 Rob sang like that since 73/74 but used it occasionally then. since 76 he used it more often and sang more raw in 79-83 period but still sang very high. later he sang more high up continiously like he did in 76-79. Check Judas priest - SInner, exciter, victem of changes, dissident aggressor, screaming for vengeance, deceiver, devils child ect. all before 1983. I think its more the other way around as king diamond even did one or 2 judas priest covers.

[@TheNotoriousSAJ75]

Try this one below and know King Diamond’s mic stand is made of real human leg bones. Facts!

[@c0uchsl0uch]

Is the Abigail album reaction up yet? The full album tells a story, and the Them album tells a story as does Conspiracy and all 3 albums are linked

[@Outlawtorn3711]

If you recall T part of this song was in the Metallica cover medley Mercyful Fate off the Garage Inc album

[@TheAdventuresofTNT]

Yes. I had to look this up afterwards. Because I know Metallica did mercyful fate on garage inc as well am I evil but I wasn’t sure if they did “evil” as well.

[@Outlawtorn3711]

@@TheAdventuresofTNT Am I Evil was a Diamond Head cover. Evil is part of the Mercyful Fate medley. I think it was 3 or 4 songs they mashed up for that.

[@benneburg]

If you're going down the King Diamond road, you have to listen to Black Rose, the band he played with before Mercyful Fate. It's only a rehearsal album and it's immensely popular is the Kings home country.

[@xdoutshock1037]

I saw them live recently and he sounds the exact same

[@riladan3462]

Mercyful fate - Come to the sabbath

[@eventone1360]

The Beginning version of Evil is amazing imo.

[@generoberts9151]

Melissa is such a cool concept album

[@duffelbag1127]

You should also check out the King Diamond album Fatal Portrait!

[@independenceltd.]

I just watched the "Code Blue," which is funny cuz there are the lines in this song: And when you're down beyond the ground/I'll dig up your body again/And make love to shame. Don't let Tasha listen to this one.

[@lenni-hazels]

Into the Coven or Curse of the Pharaohs from the same album are good picks to get a feel for early Mercyful Fate. (edit) Doomed by the living Dead! Come to the Sabbath from the second album (Don't Break the Oath) is a classic that he also kept playing live at his solo concerts. Other great songs: A Dangerous Meeting, Witches Dance (there's an official video), The Bell Witch, Egypt (those two are from their 90ies comeback album). Admittetly their mid to late 90s material wasn't as good as their first half of the discography but there's still good songs on every album.

[@joeknightus8827]

Mercyful Fate will curl/straighten your hair. I was born in a cemetery!

[@sentenced03]

i mean the title track is a great place to start if you havent heard it.

[@thekeytothegate]

Such a rad song.

[@CB-ep8mf]

I have been looking at your content for a couple of hours. I like a lot of what yinz guys are doing. But this really got my attention. My favorite album from King Diamond is The Eye. I recommend you listen to whole albums because they tell a story. Hope to see more King Diamond soon. 🦇🤘😈🤘🦇

[@kiamkuczynski6786]

Great reaction

[@godropkicks3219]

I would love it it you would react to King Diamond's song Halloween on Halloween 🎃 Keep posting your awesome material. Best wishes to you and your woman. Be well, and thanks for all of the hard work you both put in. ✌

[@almubarak89458]

A dangerous Meeting is another one you should react to

[@bobweiram6321]

King Diamond is heavily influenced by R&B. He sounds like Earth Wind and Fire from the 70s.

[@ryankellypa]

Hahaha hes about to have his face ripped off!

[@petritormanen9593]

React to mercyful fate nuns have No fun🤟best band in -80 or sisters of mercy 🤘

[@Bucket5978]

I believe his original band was Brats.. (not the sausage)

[@Wagoo]

You didn't even get to the best bit of the lyrics :P And when you're down.. beyond the ground I'll dig up your body again And make love to shame!

[@nonserviam751]

Every day is Halloween.

[@BlackieNuff]

Oooooh, early Mercyful Fate! BOLD move for the uninitiated! I listened to them since 1984, and never really grasped the lyrics so was unaware what King was saying in most songs, lol. Then I got hold of the lyrics (thanks internet), and let's just say I got a little shook, haha. Some pretty DARK stuff! And I had already been listening to it for several years, lol. I sorted it that while King is a self-proclaimed "Satanist", his beliefs/views are more in reference to the philosophy put forth by Anton Szandor LaVey, and King does NOT engage in any of the insidious black mass blood sacrifice stuff that he sings about on the early MF albums. That's my resolve, that's how I reconcile everything, please don't pull at those threads. :-) All that aside, enjoy the KD/MF odyssey!

[@maximilianschmid9890]

"Tha Judas Priest tuun fram Sad Wings of Destinj, The Ripper...vitth inn tha 1st fjuu neits hear Halfords' sillwr, scharplj schiinj hiih dabl neit sliiscinh throuh mattr leik tou maek a scharks' dennti seem thicchr asz a dvll blaed vhenn hie streiks tha vard 'schoch'."

[@robertfurneaux128]

So many I could recommend House on the Hill from the 9 album Bell witch, anything from don't break the oath, witches dance, the church of St Anne

[@Bedrockbrendan]

King Diamond!!!

[@MediaFaust]

That was (and still is) an awsome LP. Classic heavy metal with a twist. But I find it ridiculous to call it Black Metal ... because this is theatre with "horror music" in the spirit of Black Sabbath (although much more contemporary "NWOBHM" sounding). Black Metal is something else. A more naked approach to the barbed wire of life. Whereas King Diamond is the Phantom of the Opera. Closer to Power Metal than Black Metal (and I feel quite confident that he himself will agree).

[@jeffreymitchell7969]

Dude. I saw them live 😂. Don’t ask.

[@fededipi6688]

Hi T, what do i have to do to ask for a song reaction? I don't know if i have to donate through a specific method (PayPal or Patreon), of course i know i could do that during your live streams but you know... Just in case. Thanks for everything you do on your channel, by the way 🤘 Oh, just one more thing: are your live streams scheduled (besides country music and metal meltdown on Friday nights)? I couldn't find anything about it.

[@SCOOBYPALOOZA]

This Song Is Dope

[@KaroKoenich]

Try "Night of the Unborn" from the same album. That song is insane.

[@heavymetalmusicofdestructi3430]

perfect for the halloween season

[@TheOzzman6666]

long souvenir for me this album ,i remenber that,i had 4 track cassette in 1987 ,and i bring this track in school ,and teachers confisqued to me,they said to me,this is too much satanic

[@meepmeepmeepmeep-qj8no]

I recommend you start with Mercyful Fate The Beginning

[@m.ericwatson968]

When these cats came out I was kinda - meh - with King, the face makeup thing seemed goofy but saw them live, think they opened for Metallica? but they were damn good, won me over with that concert, big fan since, fate and diamond both have some really killer music

[@johnbrown9076]

Great reaction! Can you react to MaxthaDemon...any song, they are literally all good. Thanks!

[@cubbylarry5900]

🤘😎🤘

[@ripergrimm5910]

odlicna pesma

[@TheNotoriousSAJ75]

Try Mercyful Fate A Dangerous Meeting or Gypsy