Evil (Mercyful Fate) Kel's First Reaction
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- Опубліковано 31 бер 2019
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Mercyful Fate is a great band. King Diamond (the lead singer) is an acquired taste and you either like him or you don't. The musicianship from the band is top notch. I've personally been a fan since I first heard him back around 1984. Almost anything from this album or Don't Break The Oath is great stuff.
He scared the shit of me back in the magazines..i was just 10 -12 .after i heard slayer reign in blood. As 13 i saw the light of King Diamond Abigail...then after i went to mercyful fate and never turened back.
The high pitched stuff he does is really hard to get used to if you’re used to growling vocals
Perfectly put
Yup! Don't Break The Oath is my favorite album of all time.
@Patryn King Diamond’s vocal range is quite impressive, and it absolutely is an acquired taste. Fortunately, I didn’t have to go through the process of acquiring that taste. I was really big into Judas Priest when I found King Diamond. So I was already used to and liked singers with higher ranges. Granted, King Diamond’s falsetto is way over the top but Judas Priest was a good lead up to King Diamond.
For most people I always suggest listening to King Diamond’s concept albums first because the falsetto is very much used as a story telling tool, plus then if they continue to listen because of the story being told throughout the concept album eventually by the time the album’s almost over King Diamond’s voice has grown on them. And that’s when they’re ready for Mercyful Fate.
Hell yeah!!! The year is 1986. I am 14 years old. I am at the Jersey shore, Wildwood NJ, with my parents and my brother. I Am on the boardwalk playing games. There was this game where you put quarters down on squares with symbols and numbers and they spin this big wheel on the wall. If the wheel lands on your square you get to pick a prize. Me being the music nut I was I look for cassettes. I see Bon Jovi and other hair metal bands cassettes that I don’t want but there is one that stands out. It has the most evil album cover I’d ever seen. So I pick that one. It was Mercyful Fate’s Melissa. I have no clue what it is but it looks cool. I take it back to the house we were renting for the week and put it in my boom box. I freaked out. It was 1986. I was 14. I had never heard anything like it. The cassette had pics of King Diamond with the upside-down crosses as well as the lyrics. I lost my shit. I was scared. I was a good Catholic boy. Reading the lyrics, I really thought I was going to be possessed....but I loved it. I couldn’t stop listening. I hD to hide it from my parents though. 33 years later this album is still as great as that summer night I first heard it. It is a classic.
Dude! that is an EPIC tale that I love! so happy that Mercyful Fate uplifted your taste in music!
I feel u, mate
1985, I'm 15... my friend Abarca (he became a musician later...) can't recommend this Lp enough. We share the same catholic school, la Sagrada Familia, go figure
Just the cover gave me chills, so pioneering...and the music!...Satan's Fall!... I never had heard something remotely close, in complexity and pure badassery... melted my face
Hank sherman and Mr Denner created one of the best metal guitar sounds EVER....
I wish they could capture that raw sound back!
Either way, I believe you always get your money’s worth buying anything KD. The music great, stories are great, the vocals are great and on and on! They’ve done what Kiss try to do but couldn’t!
They'rw the King in your style
Love Mercyful Fate. Rest in peace Timi Holm Hansen "Grabber". Greetings from Denmark.
❤️
R.I.P Timi
Greetings from Poland
Kim Ruzz was such an amazing drummer. I'm 52 and I remember buying this LP the week it was released in the States.
Kel's face when that first high note came in was about what I felt when I first heard this back in the day. Like "What the hell is this?" It took a couple weeks of my brother playing it before I got on board. Now, MF and KD are among the best of the best in my book. #mercyfulfate Desecration of Souls or Gypsy
If Kel could see 'ole King Diamond in his kabuki makeup when he belts those jarring high notes out it would have been MORE perfect...
This entire album is jam packed with so many god damn riffs it eats modern metal bands alive. It doesn’t fucking end.
Well, now you gotta do Abigail
Oh yeah Thanks so much for the MERCYFUL FATE ONE of my all time pioneers of Black metal and of course King Diamond is just incredible his fange incredible Well you guys are so very cool keep up the great reactions
UP THE IRONS and ROCK ON
King Diamond-The Invisible Guests, that solo is amazing!
All solos are great🙂
Epic reaction! I've been listening to Mercyful since the beginning and I'm Going to see them in November for the first time! 🤘
Mercyful Fate is one of my favorite bands and has been for more than 30 years now. It should NEVER come as a surprise that they influenced ALL 4 of the Big 4 and so many more thrash, death, and black metal bands. That fact CANNOT be argued!!!!
I first heard Mercyful Fate in 1984 on a boom box..lol...my first concert EVER was Mercyful Fate at a place called Mississippi Nights in 1985!! Been listening to them ever since !!!
A tremendous LP from 1983. Every tune is great!
Up there with my favourite bands of all time. Hail to the King!
Like your Videos so much. Greetings from Germany. Wish you all the best.
Thumbs up just for reviewing Mercyful Fate! AND your video was a lot of fun. So many reaction vids are covering Diamond's solo work, but it was in Fate where the catchy chorus and lyrics really stick in your head. Something off Don't Break the Oath next! Cheers.
Yall r AWESOME
The album '9' that they put out back around '99, I think, was an amazing resurgence for them. It resulted in me delving into their whole back catalog and checking out King Diamond's solo stuff.
#mercyfulfate
#houseonthehill
#toometalforsomepeople
#theshrillinfects
I gave that album to my son in his 9th birthday. He was really into King Diamond and Mercyful Fate.
LOVE IT...SUBSCRIBED
Where to even begin man. Mercyful Fate is in my top 3 along with Fates Warning (John Arch era) and Rush (early years) as far as bands that changed everything for me. Mercyful Fate probably had the biggest influence on me as a guitarist and overall musician though. The year was I think '85 (around that) and I was 15 years old and someone gave me the tape casette to Melissa. At the time I hadn't heard anything remotely as dark lyrically or so melodic and inspiring musically. Also at the time I was still considered to be a Catholic so songs that contained lyrics like All Hail Satan! Yes Hail Satan! made a huge impression on me and anyone from Iowa really. I think more importantly though, Mercyful Fate was such a musical cornucopia that had so many flavors and styles to latch onto, it was hard not to find something that caught your attention. Needless to say I fell madly in love with the band and music and King Diamond and Hank Shermann's genius. I still have a bunch of Mercyful Fate and King Diamond vinyl (collector's items) and I saw Mercyful Fate live twice in Minneapolis for the TIme and Dead Again tours. Don't Break the Oath was the first tattoo I ever got on my arm :) There are bands and then there are monumental bands and Mercyful Fate was one of those bands that changed the game for everyone. Back in the day we had a basement/garage band and Evil was one of our favorites along with a plethora of other MF songs. Great fucking band, glad your wife enjoyed it :)
Gotta love.Mercyful Fate!
I listened to this albums thousands of times!
Haha...luv your smirk ..🤘
great video guys
Awesome! Thank you for doing this masterpiece. You know, King’s vocal ”trademark” falsetto wasn’t yet up there where it ended, but still a great album with lots of good memories. You definitely need to do King Diamond’s solo stuff and to do it right, react to one of those concept albums from start to finish. 🤘
I had already gotten deep into Black Sabbath, Dio, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth before I was introduced to Mercyful Fate/King Diamond. I got "Melissa" on cassette tape back in.. 1988, I believe it was.. while I was in tech school at Lackland AFB. Loved it immediately tho I was more into Metallica at the time. Later.. around 1989 or 1990, I got "Conspiracy" by King Diamond on cassette.. loved that album even more. Ever since those two albums I have been a MF/KD fan. I took my kids to see King Diamond live at "The Pagaent" in St Louis about 4 years ago. Their first concert.
Peace
I took my son to see King Diamond at "Tuska Open Air" in Helsinki, Finland 2013. It was his first "real" concert. The next year we went to see King again, this time at "Jalometalli" in Oulu, Finland.
Funny story. In 1988 I flew into Dallas/Fort Worth Airport called DFW to go see my Dad for the first time and I went to the local record store in Irving called Sound Warehouse and I picked up a King Diamond CD and Merciful Fate CD as well. Well as luck would have it I was listening to the King Diamond CD called Them I think it was and my Dad and my Stepmom blew a gasket as all they listened to was Country Music since my Dad was a Semi Professional Country Guitar Player. But I was told ABSOLUTELY NO KING DIAMOND!!!!! So the next day I was playing the Merciful Fate CD and my Stepmom was really digging it and She about shit when I told Her - You really like this band don't You? She said - Yeah they're unique. I said - Well hang on to something because the Lead Singer is King Diamond!!!!!! I showed Her both CD's and She said - I'm going to go buy You a pair of Professional Studio Headphones so You can Crank it all You want. She ended up buying the cassette of Merciful Fate for Her car. I thought wow that's incredible.
I first heard Mercyful Fate on a metal compilation album called Metal For Breakfast, released in 1984. It was on a Canadian label (Attic Records) so I assume it did not distribute too far outside of Canada, but it is a staple compilation from my early metal days as a teen.
The MF song featured on MFB was Black Funeral, also from MF's Melissa album. That song quickly put me on the MF path (soon after followed by the discovery of King Diamond - the man, and the solo band that evolved from the ashes of MF after only 2 albums). I was not big on the Satanic lyrics of MF, but I regarded ALL of the Satanic, violent, death-glorifying lyrics in metal as mostly "gimmickry" for the era. KD albums are what completely cinched it for me, though - having dropped much of the "Satan" stuff from his lyrics in favor of the horror themes and full-conceptual albums telling whole stories complete with tracks of spoken dialogue and ambient sound effect soundscapes was the best thing I ever heard. It was like Stephen King set to music. (Stephen King Diamond? LOL)
Further learning about King Diamond soon led me to discover, that despite the pure "gimmickry" of Satanic themes with other bands like Venom and Slayer, King was a self-proclaimed Satanist - but not in the "black masses & blood sacrifices" way that the sanctimonious moral-majority groups like the PMRC and other "Satanic panic" purveyors of puritanical piousness would have you believe. King's beliefs were rational, sound, and sane, and they sent me on a further quest to learn more about the PHILOSOPHY (not religion) of its founder, Anton Szandor Lavey, who started his "Church Of Satan" (or what I call "LaVeyan Satanism") in the late-1960s.
Talk about enlightenment. Between that and The Celestine Prophecy (by James Redfield), I got "red-pilled" on a lot of things, long before "red-pilling" became a thing.
The only thing better than discovering diamonds, is discovering King Diamond.
:-)
Sick album . One of my all time favs 😎😁
Great song.
Hahaha! Rich.. that certainly was amazing guitar playing!
Playing and shredding on that Kelecaster !!!!!
California. 1986. Loved it from first listen. Though I had to train my ears to understand his voice. 😂
I first time hear this in 1984 and i love it ;)
One of the greatest metal albums of all time
Yep. This one and Oath were a savage one-two puch combo
First paycheck, first album "don´t break the oath"...never looked back(-86)
Arguably their best song ever: so ahead of its time technically, with truly black metal lyrics. Those first verses are timeless, classic. I'll admit, it took me some time to become a fan, but it's the pure metal underneath Diamond's vocals which drew me in, from M.F. to his own band.
"This is my wife Kel: she's awesome, she's superb, she's my...Everything." Atta boy, Rich. 😎
i from argentina and the cd melissa was a first present from my mom , and introduce me into the black metal a real black , the sound of mercyfull fate is sound nwobhm greatting from argentina
you have a great mom , amazing
You're a lucky guy, my mom never would do something like that
The album " 9 " by mercyful fate is truly bad ass
It is their worst one in my opinion, but yes, it is still bad ass!
@@megadev9099 guitar playing is incredible
@@megadev9099 it's the "weaker" of the disco for sure!
#Mercyfulfate A Dangerous Meeting from Portugal
actually it was so awesome here goes a few more ) it is my very favourite band them and king diamond ofcourse
#Mercyfulfate my Demon
#Mercyfulfate The Oath
#Mercyfulfate Curse of the pharaohs
#kingDiamond Victimized
#KingDiamond Sleepless Nights
#KingDiamond Lurking in the dark
enjoy you two are great, keep Heavy !
Now those are some light, sunshiney lyrics to brighten any day!
😂😂😂🤣
Such an incredible song!
Great reaction
This is very good song and album! Definitely one bests albums ever, great classic.
You guys should listen to DEATH- Trapped in a corner, for some amazing guitar work and lyricism, fun to watch you two as always
I taped this song from radio, thought it belong to King Diamond catalogue, but it was Mercyful Fate. What a ride. Metallica called them once "the riff masters". How right they were. Now you have to go all the way. Please do more Fate/Diamond reactions… I'm so glad that you like it. Not everybody gets into King's voice and music. GREAT !!!
King Diamond is always a good choice....
Hello Im a fan of you both forever 💘 Im Christopher Jones from northwest Indiana Griffith Indiana
#MercyfulFate - Is That You, Melissa?
First girl I ever fell in love with, named Melissa. I had the chance to win her, but chose moving to L.A. to become a "rock star" instead. Even thou I got to play on the famous Guitar Center stage at the Hollywood location (in front of Bruce Kulick & Izzy Stradlin), I missed out on what could've been more special. She told me she moved on with someone else after several months (a nemesis, actually). So becareful of ALL decisions made, peeps! This tune makes me think back to her (esp. the 2nd verse).
Love this reaction soooo much. Wild career by some Local dudes from The outskirts of Copenhagen. King Diamond was known as screaming Kim before taking his stage name…No wonder Metallica found inspiration here!!!🤘🤘🤘 Greetings from Denmark….
i love mercyful fate and king diamond! im actually going to be driving a bit over 6 hours to see them live on their current north america tour :p
KING DIAMOND!!!!
Not my favourite band (but I like them!)and its good to hear such a diversity in your videos. Much appreciated.
I dont have a metal wife, or even a metal accepting wife. I'm jealous bro.
I had a smile on my face the entire time.
You two are great together. Loved the vid.
¡Sublime, siempre!
Ya te digo...
mercyful fate is an absolute fav band for me, pure musical perfection...
Kick Ass reaction 🤘🏽 seriously you two need to make custom bobble heads of yourselves for those head bobbing moments!!!!!!!!!!
We'll do it, ya know. Me in my Hulk Shirt and Kel in her Peek-a-boo tops. So fun, Uncle Awesome!!!
She is awesome
Loves Mercyful Fate !! She’s a keeper.
Melissa is a Great song also !! 🤘🤘
King Diamond!
I don't usually have many feelings without music, but the way you guys react together is actually quite endearing.
Thanks so much Paul. Means a lot to us 🙏🏽🤘❤️
@@Kel.N.RichReactions I'm glad, guys.
This is the best heavy metal song ever. Along with Beyond the realms of death.
Good one!
#mercyfulfate Come to the sabbath
If you want to learn about heavy metal, simply listen to anything with king diamond on it
Hehe, u keep finding my fave bands. One of the first prog metal bands, if u have the time some day, listen to The Oath.
Fucking love this band!
ive been a fan from the start...1983.
Que hermosa mujer
My first introduction to King Diamond was The Spider's Lullaby and In the Shadows (ordered both from Columbia House due to the picture of King). My first reaction to the falsetto's was the same as Kel's. Dug the music, but took a few listens to love the vocals. Years later I played Arrival from the Abagail album for my rap loving cousin and his reaction was "Yo! That ni@@a can sing his ass off!"
Oh ya .
Mercyful Fate Melissa one of my all time favorite albums!!
*EDIT: I think I can speak for a majority of Mercyful Fate/King Diamond fans when I say that when we show some one these bands and they’re hearing it for the very first time, that we intentionally leaving out King Diamond’s vocal range, because the reaction when they hear him hit those falsetto notes not expecting it at all they’re reaction is utterly priceless. Watching their eyes get wide and they tilt their heads to the side. It’s just great. And those falsetto notes, there’s just something about King Diamond’s voice when he does them that if you didn’t like it right off the bat once listen to a couple more songs it just grows on you and eventually you go from “man, I don’t know,” to “That man has the voice of a Fallen Angel.”*
I’m a skateboarder, have been for 13 years. One thing about skateboarding is that skateboarding and music go hand -in-hand. All skateboard videos by board companies, shoe companies, etc, have a song playing for each Skateboarder’s part. The part is then edited in a way that the pop of the board, or general sounds the tricks make are timed with the beats of the song playing.
Why am I bringing this up you may be asking yourselves. I mention it because the first time I ever heard Mercyful Fate was on the Intro to the Cataclysmic Abyss video by the Board company Foundation. The song was Corpse Without a Soul. From the second that guitarist started shredding in the intro of the song. P.S. I’m a MetalHead. And then here came King Diamond with falsetto talking about Satan stealing his souls wondering a graveyard. From that moment I started listening to anything I could find of King Diamond’s music be it from Mercyful Fate or his band named King Diamond, and became a fan instantly.
I gotta say my favorite song by Mercyful Fate is Satan’s Fall. Hands Down.
🤘😎🤘
OH YES!!!
Great reaction to a great band =)
#Insomnium : "The River - Lyric Video", "Lay of The Autumn - Lyrical Video" or "While We Sleep" :D ... Because it's damn good melo-death
Dude yes. So I like Mercyful Fate a little more than king diamond but they both slay. So happy to see reactions to the King.
Need to listen to the oath
Kel is a trophy!
Best album best song.
#demonhunter
I will fail you
Great song
"Melissa" by Mercyful Fate is a classic goodie!
it's a different style of singing and King Diamond's operatic style is mindblowing.
I believe when it comes to King Diamond’s band, A good song would be “Trial” only because she can get a good feel on how he tells horror stories; changing his voice with different characters. #KingDiamondTrialSC
Gotta love Mercyful Fate...in case you didnt know King Diamond is Danish hey Michael Denner as well hey the band started out in Denmark so members Danish...i´m Danish as well...actually they broke up ....back in the days...but Lars Ulrich was the guy who made them reunite with the album In The Shadows...he even Lars i mean played drums on a retake on that album song " Return of the vampire " 1993 version Mercyful Fate then opened up for Metallica and Lars said he ran around backstage like a 12 year old kid yaaaaaaaaaay lol...#everheard Black Rose King Diamonds first band?? before joining Michael and Shermans band Punk btw Brats...But King didnt wanna sing punk...so they change name to Mercyful Fate...rest is history #black sore funny hammonorgan ect and danish talk never released anything other than this many years later ua-cam.com/video/FV_DvaIb6nw/v-deo.html
#KingDiamond in the fire from RoadRunner all star album ua-cam.com/video/BdNi0K2FLek/v-deo.html
My opinion, masterpiece album and i suggest also one bests albums as is dead again, unfortunately it's sinfully underrated but it's my at least one favorite album ever!
Megadeth-Bad Omen,that rhythm guitar is awesome.
If you're getting into Merciful Fate/King Diamond you're in for a treat. You definitely should listen to "Come to the Sabbath", "Into the Coven", "A Corpse without Soul", "Satan's Fall", "Abigail", "Curse of the Pharaohs", "Black Funeral", "Nuns have no Fun", "The Oath", "The Uninvited Guest". Enjoy!
#WoodsOfYpres - I Was Buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery!
kiss my ashes
@@jsepps73 goodbye
Legend king diamond
#kingdiamond the black horsemen
Shanghai, China! (Originally Portland, OR)
Man that was awsome, please give us more:
#MercyfulFate-TheOath
#KingDiamond-Abigail (It will be truly great if you do the whole album)
#KingDiamond-Room17
Looking for more, sure. These guys are really open-minded musically and love their music (unlike some other reactors). I've given up my "Abigail" full album reaction requests on another channel (you know well too) and I'm now putting all my eggs in one basket. By the way "Them", "DBTO" and "Melissa" would be awesome too.
King still does it at 60 years of age...
i listened for the first time in 84, in a very poor quality cassette, and i'm listening with frequency till now, awesome band, top notch musicians.
Also big Metallica fan. Their Mercyful Fate melody is a killer
Melissa is a F*****G GREAT ALBUM !!!!!!!!
Goosebumps every time I hear it......
love the song choice, those guitars are the best of metal, listen to them scream in the album don't break the oath
There's The King for you.Always slapping you with something good.The song is from '86 but you can't get tired of it.
I Love You, King Diamond!