Mercyful Fate "The Beginning"

The Beginning is a compilation album by Mercyful Fate released in 1987 consisting of the Nuns Have No Fun EP and different versions of 4 tracks from the album Melissa.

Track listing

1. "Doomed by the Living Dead" – 5:07
2. "A Corpse Without Soul" – 6:52
3. "Nuns Have No Fun" – 4:17
4. "Devil Eyes" – 5:48
5. "Curse of the Pharaohs" – 3:50 |¹
6. "Evil" – 4:01 |¹
7. "Satan's Fall" – 10:28 |¹
8. "Black Masses" – 4:30 |²
9. "Black Funeral" – 2:52 |³

|¹ From "The Friday Rock Show". 19 March, 1983

|² From the "Black Funeral" single (B side)

|³ From the Metallic Storm compilation (Remaster only)

The line-up is the same throughout the compilation, please refer to listed releases for info:

Tracks 1-4 are the "Mercyful Fate" EP.
Tracks 5-7 from the "Friday Rock Show" radio show / "Rave-on sessions"
Track 8 is the "Black Funeral" EP's B-side
Tracks 1-4 recorded and mixed at Stone Sound Studio, Holland, September 1982
Tracks 5-7 recorded in a BBC studio session, 1983-03-19, and mixed later
Track 8 recorded during the "Melissa" sessions, Easy Sound studio, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1983-07-19 (drums, bass, rhythm guitar), 1983-07-22 (lead guitar) and 1983-07-23 (vocals). Mixed on 1983-07-27