Talk:Mercyful Fate

message: This article is somewhat POV and sounds like it was written for a popular magazine, not wikipedia. I cleaned up some of the more evident POV, but I really think this article needs a re-write. marnues 04:51, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
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message: Interpretations about "Melissa" are personal interpretations of the author. Comes off like an album review. Should be included?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by MADDOX456 (talk • contribs) 01:25, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Melissa album 

message: Why was MercyfulFateGroup.jpg removed?  I'll see if I can find another.  Oddity- 03:29, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
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message: Personally, I would call Mercyful Fate black metal - one of the first wave of none-Norweigan black metal bands, in fact. It fits, stylistically, as well as with their beliefs and intent. What says everyone else? Dysk
: I agree with this. I think they're generally acknowledged as an early/proto black metal band.Spearhead 08:42, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. The same goes for Venom, although they don't have much to do with black metal either besides their image and lyrical themes (that, and they were a joke band). The parts of the article calling MF black metal should probably be edited. Dysfunktion 01:01, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

text: Disagreed. MF's style was labelled Black Metal in the 80s, you can't deny that history. In the beginning when everything was not standardized, there's no such trend deciding what black metal should sound like, and that's why sound of the first wave of black metal appeared to be so varied. The same goes for Viking metal, if it finally evolves a distinquishable brand new sound some day in the future, not just talking about Vikings in the lyrics, anyone who has a common sense about Viking metal history won't dismiss the latter day Bathory or Ensiferum as just some "non-Viking band which help inspired the Viking genre".
I would agree that MF could be some type of "early black metal", or "proto black metal", ect.  Image wise, lyricaly and somewhat musically, it's obvious the band had a big influence on what would become black metal, but genre wise, if  someone said "what kind of music is Mercyful Fate?" the answer would not be "black metal", IMO. Skeletor2112 11:07, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

text: There are so many things wrong with what you just said that I can't bring myself to say anything further. Blizzard Beast $ODIN$ 19:56, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: My uncle listen also to heavy metal and was a part of the metal scene in the 70's and 80's. He told me that all those bands were classified as heavy metal or thrash metal. Now there are many changes. However, for me metal is going to be very incomprehensible. Tomorrow there will be another theory about a metal genre. Don't worry, if these are the sources I won't change that "first wave of black metal". IMHO the REAL black metal is Mayhem, Gorgoroth, Burzum, Immortal, Darkthrone. --Born Again 83 (talk) 22:22, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

text: MF's music is similar to heavy metal bands and sometimes a little more speedy but it has nothing to do with black .I'm agreed with Dysfunktion .MF has had influences on black metal even in their music but their genre,it really doesnt represent any elements a black metal music has.And anyways,you need to have a source for anything you put here.So you need to add source/sources for black metal.Solinothe Wolf 21:54, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
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message: A member of ANUS.com claims to have returned Melissa to King Diamond.  Discuss ... ?
--220.237.229.79 14:40, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Melissa 

message: Hope they turned up the talent knob!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.220.116.210 (talk) 01:30, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lars Played with Mercyful Fate on a Re-recording of a song? 

message: The sections recording and release, Melissa, the skull, content and music, touring and various info are a copypaste from this page. Nite-Sirk (talk) 05:00, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright violation in ''Melissa'' article 

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