Don't Break the Oath

Don't Break the Oath
Studio album by Mercyful Fate
Released 7 September 1984
Recorded May 1984
Studio Easy Sound Recording, Copenhagen, Denmark
Genre Heavy metal
Length 47:30
Label Roadrunner (Europe)
Music for Nations (UK)
Combat (USA)
Producer Henrik Lund
Mercyful Fate chronology
Melissa
(1983)		 Don't Break the Oath
(1984)		 The Beginning
(1987)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal10/10[2]
Sputnikmusic5/5[3]

Don't Break the Oath is the second studio album by Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate, released in 1984.

The style Mercyful Fate employed on Don't Break the Oath resembled a mixture of heavy metal with progressive elements, lyrically preoccupied with Satan and the occult and distinguished by King Diamond's theatrical falsetto vocals. Although very influential to future black metal bands due to its lyrical content, the music itself is more reminiscent of traditional heavy metal. The album was remastered and subsequently re-issued on Roadrunner Records in 1997. This reissue came with the bonus track "Death Kiss (Demo)", which would eventually evolve into the album's lead-off track, "A Dangerous Meeting". Metal-Rules.com named this the greatest extreme metal album of all time.[4]

Track listing

All lyrics written by King Diamond.

Side one
No.TitleMusicLength
1."A Dangerous Meeting"Hank Shermann5:10
2."Nightmare"Hank Shermann6:20
3."Desecration of Souls"Hank Shermann / Michael Denner4:54
4."Night of the Unborn"Hank Shermann4:59
Side two
No.TitleMusicLength
5."The Oath"King Diamond7:31
6."Gypsy"Michael Denner / King Diamond3:08
7."Welcome Princess of Hell[5]"Hank Shermann4:03
8."To One Far Away"Michael Denner1:31
9."Come to the Sabbath"King Diamond5:19

Personnel

Mercyful Fate
Production
  • Henrik Lund - producer, engineer
  • Niels Erik Otto - engineer
  • Thomas Holm – cover art

References

  1. ↑ Huey, Steve. "Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath review". AllMusic.
  2. ↑ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 220. ISBN 978-1894959315.
  3. ↑ Nash, J. "Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath". Sputnikmusic. Retrieved 2016-11-23.
  4. ↑ "Top 50 Extreme Metal Albums". Metal Rules. Retrieved 2016-11-23.
  5. ↑ http://www.wonderingsound.com/feature/king-diamond-kim-bendix-petersen-dreams-of-horror-metal-blade-us-tour-interview/
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