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| Melissa | ||||
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&sq=Russia-Ukraine war&lang=en&file=File:Melissa_album.png) Original LP cover art. In later pressings the orange colour is replaced with red. | ||||
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| Released | October 1983 | |||
| Recorded | 18–29 July 1983 | |||
| Studio | Easy Sound (Copenhagen) | |||
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| Length | 40:09 | |||
| Label | Roadrunner | |||
| Producer | Henrik Lund | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 9/10[3] |
| Metal Forces | 9/10[4] |
Melissa is the debut studio album by Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate, released in October 1983 through Roadrunner Records. 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.[5] 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.[6][7][8][9][10][11]
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.
- ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 38.
- ^ Huey, Steve. "Mercyful Fate - Melissa review". AllMusic. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Constable, Dave (August 1983). "Mercyful Fate - Melissa". Metal Forces (1): 21. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- ^ Kaye, Don (1997). The Beginning (CD Booklet). Mercyful Fate. New York, USA: Roadrunner Records. RR 8771-2.
- ^ "Essential Black Metal Listening: MERCYFUL FATE Melissa". 23 February 2012.
- ^ "Mercyful Fate - Melissa (1983)".
- ^ "Slayer's Kerry King: My 10 Favorite Metal Albums". Rolling Stone. 14 July 2017.
- ^ "Carcass' Bill Steer talks 10 albums that influenced their new LP 'Torn Arteries'".
- ^ "The Dark and Downright Terrifying History of European Death Metal". 27 May 2020.
- ^ "Mercyful Fate - Melissa".
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