The Beginning (Mercyful Fate album)

The Beginning is a compilation album by Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate released on 24 June 1987 through Roadrunner Records consisting of the Nuns Have No Fun EP and different versions of 4 tracks from the album Melissa.

The Beginning
Compilation album by
Released24 June 1987
GenreHeavy metal
Length44:53
LabelRoadrunner
ProducerJac Hustinx, Henrik Lund, Tony Wilson
Mercyful Fate chronology
Don't Break the Oath
(1984)
The Beginning
(1987)
Return of the Vampire
(1992)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal8/10[2]

Track listing edit

  1. "Doomed by the Living Dead" – 5:07
  2. "A Corpse Without Soul" – 6:52
  3. "Nuns Have No Fun" – 4:17
  4. "Devil Eyes" – 5:48
  5. "Curse of the Pharaohs" – 3:50 |¹
  6. "Evil" – 4:01 |¹
  7. "Satan's Fall" – 10:28 |¹
  8. "Black Masses" – 4:30 |²
  9. "Black Funeral" – 2:52 |³

|¹ From "The Friday Rock Show". 19 March, 1983
|² From the "Black Funeral" single (B side)
|³ From the Metallic Storm compilation (Remaster only)

References edit

  1. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Mercyful Fate - The Beginning review". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 2016-11-23.
  2. ^ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 220–221. ISBN 978-1894959315.