The band (comprised of founding guitarist Hank Shermann, drummer Bjarne T. The curtain dropped to reveal a highly elaborate church-like stage design, complete with marble staircases, an illuminated upside-down cross and a pentagram with glowing red eyes at its base. It’s minor details like this that always make heavy metal shows fun to watch and photograph (it helps that the music is great, too). Even though it was the night before Halloween, I’m almost confident that this is part of their everyday show. German thrash metal act Kreator kicked up the intensity as they powered through a powerful selection of tracks on a stage adorned by fake dismembered bodies.
Donned in black masks that completely obscured their faces, the three-piece got things moving along, their costumes only a nod to the theatrics that awaited those in attendance that evening. Mercyful Fate’s return to the stage featured two opening spots, the first of which was helmed by Midnight, an aggressive speed/black metal act that pummeled their way through a handful of fast paced songs to kick off the night.
With a new album in the works and a handful of overly theatrical performances, the black metal pioneers returned to the Northern California stage the night before Halloween, enticing fans that have been following them (or Diamond’s own impressive solo career) for decades. Mercyful Fateofficially hung it up in 1999, reuniting briefing in the early aughts for a handful of performances, but they have since returned to perform on a more permanent basis. Mercyful Fate is one of the forefathers of this metal subgenre, bursting onto the scene in 1981, fronted by the enigmatic King Diamond, dressed in some form of costume and face painting as he croons in falsetto over thrash-and-doom metal outings. The music was inspired by speed and thrash metal, but its theming came from a more sinister place. However, in the early 80s, black metal came onto the scene, utilizing both the imagery of anti-Christian and Satanic themes while simultaneously incorporating lyrics about Satanism into their music. Bands like KISS, Slayer and even Motley Crue have incorporated this style of “shock value” into their image for decades. General ticket sales will start on Friday (9 September) at 10:00 local time.Satanism and its imagery have been used by heavy metal and rock acts alike to add shock value to their live shows since the dawn of time. All Mercyful Fate 2023 tickets sales will end on Thursday (September 8) at 10pm local time.
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The full list of Mercyful Fate’s North American tour dates for fall 2022 can be seen below. The legendary metal band is currently working on a new album and released the new song "The Jackal of Salzburg" during a concert in Germany in June. The tour follows Mercyful Fate’s European reunion tour last summer - their first concerts in 23 years - and an illustrious headliner appearance at Psycho Las Vegas last month. Despite their more than 20-year hiatus, Mercyful Fate promise that no ounce of quality has been lost in all this time and that the same level of imagery and drama that characterized their previous shows will still be present. Mercyful Fate, a band that collaborated with Metallica on the 1999 European tour, now returns to the United States and "blesses" our ears with the sound of electric guitars and dizzying high tones and our eyes with their heavy make-upup, reminiscent of other heavy metal bands of the 1980s. Mercyful Fate tour 2023 announced: Demons and witches, fans of heavy metal and operatic goth rock, King Diamond of Mercyful Fate sends his satanic greetings and invites you to join him and the rest of his band on "Come to the Sabbath" to accompany the talent of Mercyful Fate for the first time in two decades in North America live and in person.
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