Mercyful Fate
10.06.2008
NEW SITE CHANGES!
You may have noticed that over the past few months quiet changes have been made to the site. First we gave you new artist pages. Check out your favorite and you'll find widgets, videos, music, and much more. Plus they look great.
A few weeks back we also updated our Artists page. You'll see highlighted artists up top in blue. These change as artists are updated with news, video, and music. This is a great page to make your first port-of-call after the news section!
Today we've relaunched three other pages. Music and Video are all new. You can now embed all of our music and video posted to the site in your blog, web site, or MySpace/Facebook profiles. At the right of these pages you'll see charts driven by what YOU do on our site. You can also leave comments at all songs and videos, rate them, and favorite them in our new profile system (more on that in a sec).
The Releases page has gotten a huge makeover. Every album now has its own home page where you can see the available tracks, rate it, leave a review, or comment on others' reviews. Snazzy huh?
Finally, we just launched our new profile pages. If you're a subscriber to our email newsletters, you can log in, add your own picture, keep track of the latest updates on our site (and partner sites), follow your favorite videos and music, and tell us what bands you want to hear about.
Of course, many of these new features require that you be a member of the site to use them, so please join today!
We are, of course, in a beta phase and need your help to make the site work the best for YOU. If you see any problems or want to suggest changes to the new features, please send an email to webmaster@roadrunnerrecords.com with "NEW SITE REPORT" in the subject line. If you receive an error, please be as detailed as possible, including what page you were on, what browser you are using, and copy any error message you receive into the body of the email.
Please feel free to leave comments here below!
Cheers!
Jeremy Rosen
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11.20.2006
Original Mercyful Fate Lineup Reunites For 1st Time In 22 Years
Blabbermouth reports that Mercyful Fate was presented with the "honor award" at the Danish Metal Awards 2006, which were held on Saturday, November 18 at Amager Bio in Copenhagen, Denmark. Original members Michael Denner (guitar), Hank Shermann (guitar), Timi "Grabber" Hansen (bass) and Kim Ruzz (drums) appeared in public together for the first time in 22 years to accept the award. Vocalist King Diamond was unable to attend the event due to the fact that he is currently working on a new King Diamond album in Dallas, Texas.
Visit your digital retailer of choice right now and you'll be able to replace those dusty vinyl albums or sticky CDs with 1983's groundbreaking debut Melissa, 1984's brilliant follow-up and swansong Don't Break the Oath, 1987's early recordings collection, The Beginning, and 1992's vault-clearing rarities set, Return of the Vampire.
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10.31.2006
A DAY OF GHOSTS AND DEVILS
Trick or treat, suckas!
It's that time of year again. Time for candy to run like water, the smell of rotten eggs in the street and the beginning of preparations to fight through the zombie apocalypse...ok, that last part may be a bit far fetched, but zombies still are a Halloween staple, so enjoy this ghoulish day. Happy Halloween!!
Halloween wouldn't be complete with some treats in the goody bag, right? Well have we got some treats for you.
Opeth's Ghost Reveries (Special Edition) and DevilDriver's The Fury Of Our Maker's Hand (Special Edition) are in stores NOW, so go grab a copy or 6 and hand them out to the kids at the door.
The equally spooky Thornography by Cradle Of Filth is also in stores and makes a great soundtrack for zombie slaying.
Finally, the masters of horror, Mercyful Fate have stepped into the digital age, issuing its albums, including the groundbreaking Melissa and its follow-up, Don't Break The Oath onto your favorite online music store!
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10.26.2006
COME, COME TO THE SABBATH...
Here's a little heavy metal history you'll need to get into your iPods: Mercyful Fate's massively influential - and still utterly unique - studio albums are now available for download for the first time!
Visit your digital retailer of choice right now and you'll be able to replace those dusty vinyl albums or sticky CDs with 1983's groundbreaking debut Melissa, 1984's brilliant follow-up and swansong Don't Break the Oath, 1987's early recordings collection, The Beginning, and 1992's vault-clearing rarities set, Return of the Vampire.
What better way to kick off Halloween?
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01.19.2006
ROADRUNNER ON MYSPACE
We have a new page for you to bookmark alongside our main hub here at RoadRunnerRecords.com...
Our newly revamped and relaunched official home on MySpace - come take a look at www.myspace.com/roadrunnerrecords.
Once there, you can join our network of friends, make new ones to talk music and whatever else you please with, and enjoy everything from pictures, to banners, to videos and jukeboxes, to special promotions and prize giveways for all your favorite Roadrunner artists.
We're looking forward to seeing you there and welcome your feedback to help us make Roadrunner's MySpace page the best that it can be.
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Roadrunner Discography
Release Date: 08.30.2005
Melissa [RR 25th Anniversary Reissue]
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)
Format: CD Release Date: 07.13.2004
Don't Break The Oath/Return Of The Vampire 2 for 1
Part of the Two From The Vault series of releases. The 1984 black metal materpiece from this seminal Danish band who inspired everyone from Metallica to Cradle Of Filth plus rare early recordings including 4 previously unreleased tracks.
Tracks:
Disc: 11. Dangerous Meeting
2. Nightmare
3. Desecration of Souls
4. Night of the Unborn
5. Oath
6. Gypsy
7. Welcome Princes of Hell
8. To One Far Away
9. Come to the Sabbath
10. Death Kiss [*][Demo Version]
Disc: 2
1. Burning the Cross [Demo Version]
2. Curse of the Pharaohs [Demo Version]
3. Return of the Vampire [Demo Version]
4. On a Night of Full Moon [Demo Version]
5. Corpse Without Soul [Demo Version]
6. Death Kiss [Demo Version]
7. Leave My Soul Alone [Demo Version]
8. M.D.A. [Demo Version]
9. You Asked for It [Demo Version]
Latest Album:
Melissa [RR 25th Anniversary Reissue]
1. ERIC SAID...
I know I'm up here talking a lot of shit, and I truly don't mean disrespect, just bored at work. But what happened to the old Roadrunner label? It used to be so fuckin awesome with a lot of my favorite (and best) bands. Who made the decision to start fucking it up by signing shit ass bands? Not even a metal label anymore........
October 13, 3:46 PM
Eric
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2. BRADLEY SAID...
i think the new site changes are great and there have been no flaws
and eric who gives a shit
November 1, 6:40 PM
bradley
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