Metal Monday: Mercyful Fate

Last Metal Monday (which you'll recall came on a Sunday), I mentioned Metallica's "Garage Inc." -- a double album full of covers of some of the band's biggest early influences. Track 7 on Disc 1 is called "Mercyful Fate," and it's actually a medley of five songs -- "Satan's Fall," "Curse of the Pharoahs," "A Corpse Without Soul," "Into the Coven," and "Evil" -- from the Danish metal outfit called, believe it or not, "Mercyful Fate."

I've not done much exploring the studio space, as it were, with Mercyful Fate, but I like what I know. Hopefully, so will you. Below are four of the five full tracks that are covered and medley-cized on the 'tallica album (I couldn't find a good version of "A Corpse Without Soul"), plus the medley. Additionally, here's a link to "Welcome Home," a song by King Diamond, which is a band formed by and named after Mercyful Fate frontman King Diamond (embedding was disabled by the record company). Kevin Smith fans will recognize the song from a few scenes in Clerks II (NSFW, of course).