Mercyful Fate Albums - Don't Break the Oath, Melissa, Return of the Vampire, in the Shadows, Mercyful Fate, a Dangerous Meeting, Dead Again (Paperback)

Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: Don't Break the Oath, Melissa, Return of the Vampire, in the Shadows, Mercyful Fate, a Dangerous Meeting, Dead Again, Time, Into the Unknown, 9, the Bell Witch Ep, the Best of Mercyful Fate, the Beginning. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Melissa is the debut album of Danish band Mercyful Fate released in 1983. It was the first album released by Roadrunner Records. In 2005 Roadrunner Records re-released this album with several bonus tracks and bonus DVD. Music is credited to Hank Shermann and lyrics to King Diamond. On July 18th 1983, Mercyful Fate started recording at Easy Sounds Studios in Copenhagen for the 13 next days with producer Henrik Lund, which was the co-owner of the studio along with his brother. The band asked Henrik to produce the album, he was paid $1000 by the record company. Even though the band had more time than when they did the first EP, time was precious and by chance, the band knew the songs very well before entering the studio and made it very quickly. They had to plan and calculate right as they had less than two weeks to record and mix the whole thing, so they really had not much time fooling around. It was an interesting challenge to prove themselves they could do it. While Henrik was mixing the album, the band were not allowed in the room; they had to wait outside the door, leaving him alone. He then had to come out, telling the band to come in listening to the mix he just have done. Then, when the band had comments, like putting less guitar or whatever, they had to leave again, waiting outside the door once more, waiting for him to do another mix, then come in again with more comments; the band found it very irritating. On the other hand, as Hank now recalls, it was w...http: //booksllc.net/?id=1823973