Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The post R.I.P. Timi Hansen, Mercyful Fate and King Diamond bassist dies at 61 appeared first on Consequence of Sound. Timi Hansen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. King Diamond and members of Mercyful Fate join Metallica at day two of the bands' 30th Anniversary shows at the Fillmore on Dec. 7 ...

Shortly after that, Ulrich offered his condolences. Hansen initially performed with Mercyful Fate from 1981 to 1985 before joining that band's lead vocalist in the frontman's namesake outfit, King ...

Mercyful Fate are still under contract with Metal Blade for one more album. King Diamond has been busy on the road, but there's talk of a new album. Back in July of last year Metal Blade founder Brian ...

Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate will return to the stage in 2027 for its first live performance since April 2024. The band, led by singer King Diamond, has confirmed a performance at the ...

After roughly five years with iconic Danish metal outfit Mercyful Fate, bassist Joey Vera is stepping down in a way that both parties describe as a mutual decision. The announcement of the lineup ...

Heavy metal legends Mercyful Fate have been on hiatus since 1999, save for when members had a brief, one-off reunion in 2011 at one of Metallica’s 30th anniversary shows, but they’re now finally set ...

Mercyful Fate are heading out on their first headlining tour in North America in more than 20 years. The Danish black metal group will kick things off in Dallas this October, making their way through ...

In the early '80s, the Danish band Mercyful Fate pioneered a wild, theatrical, occult-heavy strain of heavy metal that proved hugely influential on all sorts of subgenres; thrash and black metal would ...

Mercyful Fate are the kind of band for whom the phrase “they sound like X but on steroids” was created. The group didn’t reinvent the wheel, exactly, so much as they took elements from the hard rock ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Heavy metal fans continue to celebrate "Satan's Fall," the ambitious 11-minute-and-23-second track by Danish band Mercyful Fate, more than four decades after its debut on the band's 1983 album Melissa ...