While I don't take exception to records like Into the Unknown or 9 , which manage to channel most of Mercyful Fate 's positive qual...

Into the Unknown might be one of the duller looking albums in the Mercyful Fate catalog, but not the worst of them. This marked a point ...

Dead Again did not leave me with any huge expectations for its potential successors. It wasn't a terrible record, but the next rung do...

Much as The Graveyard proved the nadir to all those things King Diamond , an uninspired and pitifully bland paragon of career exhaustion,...

In the Shadows could be considered a righteous 'comeback' record long before metal comeback records became a thing, as the majorit...

Perhaps the only tangible quip I could launch against Mercyful Fate 's seminal debut is that, compared to the King's next six full...

While you'd expect a career like King Diamond 's to be cluttered up with scads of cashed in compilation appearances, this has than...

After a decade of silence, Mercyful Fate has re-recorded a pair of tracks from their debut full-length Melissa , in concordance with their ...