Mercyful Fate "Melissa (2005 Reissue, Remastered, Digipak)"

Melissa is the debut studio album by Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate, released on 30 October 1983. It was the first album released by Roadrunner Records. This was also the first Mercyful Fate effort to get an official release in the United States through Megaforce Records, as the self-titled EP was a highly sought after import, and the BBC sessions were only available on bootleg tapes. Melissa has been identified as one of the earliest examples of extreme metal, and is often considered to be a major influence on the then-developing thrash metal, black metal and death metal genres.

In 2005, Roadrunner Records re-released this album with several bonus tracks and a bonus DVD. Music is credited to Hank Shermann and lyrics to King Diamond.

Tracklist:

Disc 1 (CD)

1. Evil 04:45   
2. Curse of the Pharaohs 03:57  
3. Into the Coven 05:10
4. At the Sound of the Demon Bell 05:23   
5. Black Funeral 02:50   
6. Satan's Fall 11:23
7. Melissa 06:42  
8. Black Masses (Black Funeral 7" B-side) 04:31  
9. Curse of the Pharaohs (BBC Radio 1 Session) 03:51  
10. Evil (BBC Radio 1 Session) 04:02   
11. Satan's Fall (BBC Radio 1 Session) 10:29  
12. Curse of the Pharaohs (Demo) 04:26  
13. Black Funeral (Demo) 02:54   

Time:  01:10:23  

Disc 2 (DVD)

1. Doomed by the Living Dead 05:13  
2. Black Funeral 03:06
3. Curse of the Pharaohs 04:32  

Time:   12:51  

Recording information:

CD: Mixed by Hendrik Lund and Mercyful Fate.

Recorded and mixed at Easy Sound Recording Copenhagen Denmark July 1983.

DVD: All recorded live at Dynamo, Eindhoven 1983. Features commentary by King Diamond.