The saga of latest King Diamond and Mercyful Fate continues! Mercyful Fate has been engaged on a new album since 2020 in tandem with frontman King Diamond engaged on his personal solo data, and it appears they’re nonetheless within the demoing course of. In accordance with Mercyful Fate bassist Becky Baldwin in an interview with The Metallic Voice, the brand new King Diamond document is within the works this 12 months after which 2026 would be the time for brand new Mercyful Fate.
“So, it is within the sort of demoing course of in the meanwhile. Instrumentally, it is largely there,” stated Baldwin. “And so the following step is for King to work on it, however King additionally must put out the King Diamond album this 12 months, hopefully. So [the King Diamond album] needs to be this 12 months after which he’ll do a European tour, after which it is Mercyful Fate time. So it is sort of like, yeah, there’s an order that issues must occur. So, hopefully this 12 months we’ll have the ability to begin on ending the album, like ending it by way of lyrics.
“‘The Jackal Of Salzburg’, that music has already been carried out stay. That is gonna be on the album. King has completed some actually superb issues with the demo model that he is been engaged on. After which, yeah, in the direction of the top of the 12 months, in all probability [Mercyful Fate will release] some singles hopefully. Or if not, then subsequent 12 months.”
The brand new Mercyful Fate document would be the band’s first since 9 in 1999. Mercyful Fate in 2025 is presently King Diamond alongside guitarists Hank Shermann and Mike Wead, bassist Becky Baldwin who joined in 2024, and drummer Bjarne T. Holm. As Baldwin famous, as far as we have heard is the brand new single “The Jackal Of Salzberg” in a stay setting. Mercyful Fate returned to the stage in 2022 for the primary time since 1999 for a full tour, after which performed two reveals in 2024 – Summer time Breeze Brazil 2024 after which a present on the Movistar Area in Santiago, Chile.
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