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In the early '80s, the Danish band Mercyful Fate pioneered a wild, theatrical, occult-heavy strain of heavy metal that proved hugely influential on all sorts of subgenres; thrash and black metal would ...

The post Mercyful Fate Have 6 or 7 New Songs “About to Be Ready” for First Release in Over 20 Years appeared first on Consequence of Sound. Reunited metal legends Mercyful Fate are making progress on ...

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Mercyful Fate are heading out on their first headlining tour in North America in more than 20 years. The Danish black metal group will kick things off in Dallas this October, making their way through ...

Heavy metal legends Mercyful Fate have been on hiatus since 1999, save for when members had a brief, one-off reunion in 2011 at one of Metallica’s 30th anniversary shows, but they’re now finally set ...

Mercyful Fate are the kind of band for whom the phrase “they sound like X but on steroids” was created. The group didn’t reinvent the wheel, exactly, so much as they took elements from the hard rock ...

The reunited Mercyful Fate, which performed last month in Las Vegas, will embark on its first North American tour in two decades this fall. The group, which will be supported by thrashers Kreator and ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...