Don't Break the Oath

Don't Break the Oath
Studio album by Mercyful Fate
Released September 7, 1984
Recorded Easy Sound Recording, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 1984
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]
Martin Popoff[2]

Don't Break the Oath is the second studio album by the 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.[3]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Hank Shermann and King Diamond unless noted. 

Side one
No. Title Length
1. "A Dangerous Meeting"   5:10
2. "Nightmare"   6:19
3. "Desecration of Souls" (Shermann, Diamond, Michael Denner) 4:54
4. "Night of the Unborn"   4:59
Side two
No. Title Length
5. "The Oath" (Diamond) 7:31
6. "Gypsy" (Diamond, Denner) 3:08
7. "Welcome Princes of Hell[4]"   4:03
8. "To One Far Away" (Diamond, Denner) 1:31
9. "Come to the Sabbath" (Diamond) 5:19
1997 re-release bonus track
No. Title Length
10. "Death Kiss" (demo) 4:30

Personnel

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. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.
  3. ↑ Metal-Rules.com
  4. ↑ http://www.wonderingsound.com/feature/king-diamond-kim-bendix-petersen-dreams-of-horror-metal-blade-us-tour-interview/
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