Description

LABEL: METAL BLADE RECORDS
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 5 27 2022
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 1984
VARIANT: Yellow w Red Flares Vinyl

All the pieces came together on Mercyful Fate’s second album, and a timeless pillar of metal was born. Don’t Break the Oath is a delightfully eccentric collection of NWOBHM epics that are soaked to the bone in vocalist King Diamond’s dramatic flair — from his over-the-top lyrical odes to Satan to his singular, operatic trill. Musically, the album is proggier and more instrumentally adventurous than their obvious forefathers, and its gorgeously terrifying cover art was meant to be displayed on vinyl-sized cardboard.