Don’t Break The Oath, the second studio album by Danish heavy metal icons, Mercyful Fate, will see a special vinyl repress on Metal Blade Records on November 1st. Initially issued in 1984 through Roadrunner Records, the Metal Blade edition celebrates the ground-breaking record’s 40th anniversary!
Comments Metal Blade founder and CEO, Brian Slagel, “We’re here to celebrate the anniversary of one of the most legendary albums of all-time: Mercyful Fate‘s Don’t Break The Oath. At Metal Blade, we’re extremely honored and happy to be repressing the album on vinyl and the band will be celebrating the anniversary by releasing a whole bunch of really cool merch. So, check it out, go get the repressing, and enjoy and celebrate the 40th anniversary of Don’t Break the Oath.”
Adds Nuclear Blast Records head of A&R and former VP of A&R at Roadrunner Records, Monte Conner, “How do you follow up Melissa, one of the greatest metal debuts of all time? An album that features a song called Satan’s Fall, that contains enough riffs for any other metal band to have written an entire album from. You follow it up by doing it again a mere year later with Don’t Break The Oath, featuring even better production, and songs that are even more fleshed out and have more meat on the bone. Tracks like Gypsy, The Oath, and Come To The Sabbath are metal classics for the ages, but honestly I could add the other six songs on the album to that list. Every track is an undeniable classic for the ages. They just don’t make albums like this anymore! Having later worked at Roadrunner Records, the label that released this album in 1984, I am thrilled to see it reaching a whole new generation of metalheads 40 years later, and what better label to do the honors than the mighty Metal Blade.”
The 40th anniversary edition of Mercyful Fate‘s Don’t Break The Oath will see release on special Ruby Red vinyl.
Find pre-orders at: metalblade.com/mercyfulfate and additional merch items at: eustore.mercyfulfatecoven.com
Don’t Break The Oath track listing:
Side A:
1. A Dangerous Meeting
2. Nightmare
3. Desecration Of Souls
4. Night Of The Unborn
Side B:
1. The Oath
2. Gypsy
3. Welcome Princess Of Hell
4. To One Far Away
5. Come To The Sabbath
Mercyful Fate:
King Diamond – vocals, keyboard, harpsichord
Hank Shermann – guitars
Michael Denner – guitars
Timi Hansen – bass
Kim Ruzz – drums
More on Mercyful Fate: mercyfulfatecoven.com and facebook.com/mercyfulfateofficial
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This is such a great heavy metal album! Either this album, or “Melissa”, is my favorite Mercyful Fate album…so hard to decide!
This dude has always scared me for some reason. I just can’t listen to them and that squeal voice.
I saw either Merciful Fate, or King Diamond live once, I cannot remember it, at all. Which is odd, since his voice is so grating-LOL!
Perhaps you were possessed Dana!
LOL!! Doubtful…
Everyone trying to outdo everyone. Goat heads, pentagrams, Satan is my pal, blah blah blah. It all became a caricature of itself immediately. I remember when I first saw a picture of King Diamond and thought of how unoriginal he looked. Kiss, Alice. Obvious.
King Diamonds vocals sound like me with my most tender part caught in the edge of a conveyer belt
No it didn’t happen!
LOL, Jeff.
It’s like a cat screeching, but perhaps even higher? It is clearly a skill to “sing” in such an extreme register, but that doesn’t necessarily equate with a pleasant audio experience.