{"id":115623,"date":"2025-01-25T15:03:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T20:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=115623"},"modified":"2025-01-25T15:06:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T20:06:29","slug":"mercyful-fate-working-on-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=115623","title":{"rendered":"MERCYFUL FATE &#8211; Working on New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Work has begun on the first new album from Danish heavy metal legends&nbsp;<strong>M<\/strong>ERCYFUL FATE since 1999. Per a recent interview bassist&nbsp;<strong>Becky Baldwin<\/strong>&nbsp;did with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themetalvoice.com\/\">The Metal Voice<\/a>, demoing for that long-awaited record has been taking place lately. Asked about that effort by the aforementioned publication,&nbsp;<strong>Baldwin<\/strong>&nbsp;responded:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u201cSo, it\u2019s in the kind of demoing process at the moment. Instrumentally, it\u2019s mostly there. And so the next step is for&nbsp;<strong>King<\/strong>&nbsp;[<strong>Diamond<\/strong>] to work on it, but&nbsp;<strong>King<\/strong>&nbsp;also needs to put out the&nbsp;<strong>King Diamond<\/strong>&nbsp;album this year, hopefully. So that should be this year and then he\u2019ll do a European tour [with&nbsp;<strong>King Diamond<\/strong>]. And then it\u2019s&nbsp;<strong>Mercyful Fate<\/strong>&nbsp;time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">So it\u2019s kind of like, yeah, there\u2019s an order that things need to happen. So, hopefully this year we\u2019ll be able to start on finishing the [<strong>Mercyful Fate<\/strong>] album, like finishing it in terms of lyrics. \u2018<strong>The Jackal Of Salzburg<\/strong>\u2018, that song has already been performed live. That\u2019s gonna be on the album.&nbsp;<strong>King<\/strong>&nbsp;has done some really amazing things with the demo version that he\u2019s been working on. And then, yeah, towards the end of the year, probably [<strong>Mercyful Fate<\/strong>&nbsp;will release] some singles hopefully. Or if not, then next year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Pressed for any further details,&nbsp;<strong>Baldwin<\/strong>&nbsp;replied:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u201cI\u2019m not gonna give anything away. I don\u2019t feel qualified to divulge that kind of information. I haven\u2019t been told what I am and I\u2019m not allowed to say. [Laughs] There\u2019s songs with names, there\u2019s concepts. I\u2019m not going to sing you a little riff, but there are riffs. There are riffs. [Laughs]\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/mercyfulfatecoven.com\/\">Mercyful Fate<\/a> online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work has begun on the first new album from Danish heavy metal legends&nbsp;MERCYFUL FATE since&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115623"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115630,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115623\/revisions\/115630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}