Time (Mercyful Fate album)

Time is the fourth studio album by the Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate. It was released on 25 October 1994 through Metal Blade Records.

Time
Studio album by
Released25 October 1994
RecordedMay–August 1994
StudioDallas Sound Lab, Dallas, Texas, U.S.
GenreHeavy metal
Length47:00
LabelMetal Blade
ProducerKing Diamond, Tim Kimsey and Hank Shermann
Mercyful Fate chronology
The Bell Witch EP
(1994)
Time
(1994)
Into the Unknown
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal8/10[2]
Rock Hard (GER)9.0/10[3]
Sputnikmusic4.0/5[4]

The track "The Mad Arab" is about H. P. Lovecraft's character Abdul Alhazred, the author of the fictional forbidden tome of occult lore The Necronomicon. In the lyric booklet, it is subtitled "Part One: The Vision". The second part appears as the track "Kutulu (The Mad Arab, Part Two)" on the follow-up, Into the Unknown.

Track listing

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All lyrics are written by King Diamond

No.TitleMusicLength
1."Nightmare Be Thy Name"Michael Denner3:29
2."Angel of Light"Diamond3:37
3."Witches' Dance"Diamond4:47
4."The Mad Arab"Hank Shermann4:42
5."My Demon"Diamond4:42
6."Time"Diamond4:22
7."The Preacher"Shermann3:29
8."Lady in Black"Diamond3:49
9."Mirror"Denner3:19
10."The Afterlife"Shermann4:32
11."Castillo del Mortes"Shermann6:14

Personnel

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Mercyful Fate

Production

  • King Diamond – production, mixing
  • Hank Shermann – associate production, mixing
  • Tim Kimsey – production, engineering, mixing
  • Kevin Wade – assistant engineering
  • Frank Salazar – pre-mastering
  • Eddy Schreyer – mastering at Future Disc, Los Angeles

References

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  1. ^ Anderson, Jason. "Mercyful Fate - Time review". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 2016-11-23.
  2. ^ Popoff, Martin (August 1, 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 273. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
  3. ^ Albrecht, Frank (1994). "Dynamit: Mercyful Fate- Time". Rock Hard (in German). No. 90. Retrieved 2016-11-23.
  4. ^ Nash, J. "Mercyful Fate - Time". Sputnikmusic. Retrieved 2016-11-23.