USA
$42USD
Paperback
A Dangerous Meeting: In the Shadows with Mercyful Fate
is my updated, expanded and somewhat rewritten update on the celebrated earlier version of this book, available in four languages besides English. It’s my song-by-song, album-per-chapter book looking at the exemplary catalogue of King Diamond’s devilish original band, from Melissa and Don’t Break the Oath in the ‘80s to a vastly under-rated run of top-shelf reunion records in the ‘90s. The King Diamond catalogue gets a more informal look-in along the way, but yeah, most of this is about the hard, spooky work that went into one of the classiest metal catalogues of all time.
Canada
$48CAD
International
$56USD
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Calling all fun-loving nuns and corpses without souls!
A Dangerous Meeting: In the Shadows with Mercyful Fate is a fat book stuffed with paranormal progressive power metal rendered in my usual format, namely every song discussed, one chapter per album. It’s an expanded, updated version of my previous out-of-print Mercyful Fate book, which was a hit in English and also available in four additional languages.
You’ve all been very kind in making my recent books like this on Sabbath, Maiden and Priest sell pretty damn good, so this one is very much a style match to those too, with lots of detail and trivia nugget-mining not found amongst the frankly pretty scant material out there on this band.
The heavy metal love for Mercyful Fate and King Diamond runs deep and blood-red.
What we’ve unleashed upon this wicked world is the only book celebrating this devilish, Danish phenomenon, specifically the root band of it all, Mercyful Fate.
To be sure, any self-respecting fan knows Melissa and Don’t Break the Oath, but as with most of my 135+ books, I’ve devised an ulterior motive, and that is the proselytizing upon the good graces of each and every Mercyful Fate reunion album from 1993 through to the current day.
Indeed, the classics stand as two cornerstones of superbly crafted black metal madness, but In the Shadows, Time, Into the Unknown, Dead Again and most pertinently 9, are all records blessed with the same sweat ethic and ungodly performance and production standards King applies to anything he does.
It’s time to join the coveted coven and enter the pentatonic pentagram and celebrate with me this superlative catalogue of top-shelf heavy metal beloved by Metallica and fans the world over as arguably the only suite of songs as creatively intense as those of Judas Priest circa ’76 through ’79. Believe it—the good King and Michael and Hank knew what they were doing. Come read how the three of them executed fully the master plan that made this band one for the most discerning of connoisseurs.
