Don't Break the Oath
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Don't Break the Oath is Mercyful Fate's second full-length album. It was released in 1984.
The style Mercyful Fate employed on Don't Break The Oath resembled a mixture of post-Judas Priest/Iron Maiden heavy metal and early black metal, lyrically preoccupied with Satan and the occult. The album was remastered and subsequently re-issued on Roadrunner Records in 1997. This album is regarded as a milestone of the first wave of black metal. Metal-Rules.com named this the greatest extreme metal album of all time.[1]
Track listing
- "A Dangerous Meeting" – 5:10
- "Nightmare" – 6:19
- "Desecration of Souls" – 4:54
- "Night of the Unborn" – 4:59
- "The Oath" – 7:31
- "Gypsy" – 3:08
- "Welcome Princes of Hell" – 4:03
- "To One Far Away" – 1:31
- "Come to the Sabbath" – 5:19
- "Death Kiss" – 4:30
- The track "Death Kiss" is a bonus track on the remastered version of the album that was released in 1997. This is an old demo version of the track "A Dangerous Meeting".
- The actual name of the 7th song is "Welcome Princes Of Hell", not "Welcome Princess Of Hell". It was a title misprint, where the lyrics were correctly written in the original pressing but the title wasn't. The distinction can also be heard in the song (the prince "is" vs. prince "s"), as well as the plural connotation of the lyrics "I'm alone with my friends, We will be back, we will be back".
Credits
- King Diamond - Vocals
- Hank Shermann - Guitars
- Michael Denner - Guitars
- Timi "Grabber" Hansen - Bass
- Kim Ruzz - Drums