Don't Break the Oath

Don't Break the Oath
Studio album by Mercyful Fate
Released September 7, 1984
Recorded May 1984
Studio Easy Sound Recording, Copenhagen, Denmark
Genre Heavy metal, black metal[1]
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. TitleMusic Length
1. "A Dangerous Meeting"  Hank Shermann 5:10
2. "Nightmare"  Shermann 6:19
3. "Desecration of Souls"  Shermann, Michael Denner 4:54
4. "Night of the Unborn"  Shermann 4:59
Side two
No. TitleMusic Length
5. "The Oath"  Diamond 7:31
6. "Gypsy"  Denner, Diamond 3:08
7. "Welcome Princess of Hell[5]"  Shermann 4:03
8. "To One Far Away"  Denner, Diamond 1:31
9. "Come to the Sabbath"  Diamond 5:19

Personnel

Mercyful Fate
Production

References

  1. 1 2 Steve Huey. "Don't Break the Oath - Mercyful Fate 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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