Roadrunner "Melissa [RR 25th Anniversary Reissue]" - Mercyful Fate

The monster is back. Don't forget to pick up this re-release of one of the definative albums of metal... Mercyful Fate's debut album, Melissa, took Black Sabbath's dark occult obsessions to an extreme, fusing them with the speed and tightened, twin-guitar riffing attack of British metal bands like Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. But the band had a distinctive sound of its own, thanks to the neo-classical flourishes of guitarists Hank Shermann and Michael Denner and the unpredictable vocal leaps of King Diamond, who could jump from a deathly growl to an unearthly falsetto wail in the next line. The band was still finding itself, and some of the songs on Melissa have a tendency to move into long, meandering instrumental sections, but the basic components of Mercyful Fate's influential European gothic black metal sound were already in place. (Allmusic)

  

Disc 1
1     Evil [ listen/comment ]
2     Curse Of The Pharaohs    
3     Into The Coven
4     At The Sound Of The Demon Bell
5     Black Funeral
6     Satan's Fall
7     Melissa
8     Black Masses    
9     Curse Of The Pharaohs (BBC Radio 1 Session)
10    Evil [ listen/comment ] (BBC Radio 1 Session)
11    Satan's Fall (BBC Radio 1 Session)
12    Curse Of The Pharaohs (Demo)
13    Black Funeral (Demo)

Disc 2
Title 1
Chapter 1
0:0:0 - 0:5:07     Doomed By The Living Dead (live)
Chapter 2
0:0:0 - 0:2:47     Black Funeral (live)
Chapter 3
0:0:0 - 0:4:00     Curse Of The Pharaohs (live)