“I look around and scare, Skulls lie on the black altar, All crosses turned, Green blood drops from the walls…” Schmier, Mike Sifringer, Tommy Sandmann.
“My Strength Slips Fast, Soon I Must Fall, Victim Of Fortune, My Sources Grow Small, Life Slips Away, As Demons Come Forth Death Takes My Hand, And Captures My Soul…” Kerry King, Tom Araya, Jeff Hanneman, Dave Lombardo
Roge Davies, Nige Rockett, Paul ‘Dickie’ Davies, Steve Grice.
Roger Davies, Nige Rockett, Paul Davies, Steve Grice.
Roger Davies, Nige Rockett, Paul Davies, Steve Grice.
“The lies of Christ will lose, The ways of hell I chose, I drink the floating blood, Defy the fury of God…” Quorthon, Stefan Larsson.
Hellhammer…a true band steeped in the traits of Black Metal; the sound, the lyrics, the production. A short lived proto-Celtic Frost threw out ideas that would surface in black tracks on ‘Frost albums and content from other bands. Hellhammer’s legacy would go on to haunt Celtic Frost…“Way back in 1984 and 85, when Martin Eric Ain and I recorded Celtic Frost’s first two albums Morbid Tales and To Mega Therion, Hellhammer lasted on us almost like a curse. Even though Hellhammer was the very reason we had thought over our goals and conceived the Frost, HH’s left-overs kept being mighty rocks in our way. Many voices saw Frost as the same band with just a name-change. The lack of musical quality in HH made it almost impossible for us to get an unbiased reaction for Frost. To make a long story short, it almost killed all our work and dreams” – Tom Warrior
But would Hellhammer die? Or would there be a twitching of undead life in its corpse?
“Picked angels fall into emptiness; Inverted crosses, damned saints; A dead priest can’t celebrate a mass; Ravaged cities, slayed in the night; Black holes, Belial’s hour; The Antichrist, born by church’s power…” Tom G.Warrior, Martin E.Ain, Bruce Day.
Mercyful Fate’s influence on the development of Black Metal cannot be understated, for a band that released it’s first material only a year after Venom’s first blasts they can be considered a true Godfather of the movement, one of the Satanic Trinity, Satan, Antichrist & False Prophet…for arguments sake we will deem Mercyful Fate as Satan in the Trinity. King Diamond’s lyrics and proto corpse paint persona are staples used throughout the Cvlt. Whilst musically their output has more in common with Occult groups of the 70’s crossed with the emerging NWOBHM sound – the twin guitar attack would inspire groups such as Iron Maiden and later power metal bands – as Satan Overlord of the Cvlt, Mercyful Fate stands head and shoulders above the filth below it…Whilst Mercyful Fate’s candle burned out quickly, it burned brightly, 3 demos, 1 EP, 1 single and 2 albums…
“Magic circles drawn after midnight, Around graves to be opened, He’ll use the wand to raise a body, He’ll ask the questions and he’ll burn the remains…” King Diamond, Kim Ruzz, Tim ‘Grabber’ Hansen, Michael Denner, Hank Shermann.
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