Don't Break the Oath

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Don't Break the Oath

Studio album by Mercyful Fate
Released	1984
Recorded	1984
Genre	Heavy metal Black metal
Length	47:30
Label	Combat Records Roadrunner Records
Producer(s)	Henrik Lund
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Mercyful Fate chronology
Melissa (1983)	Don't Break the Oath (1984)	The Beginning (1987)

Don't Break the Oath is Mercyful Fate's second full-length album. It was released in 1984.

The style Mercyful Fate employed on Don't Break The Oath resembled a mixture of post-Judas Priest/Iron Maiden heavy metal and early black metal, lyrically preoccupied with Satan and the occult. The album was remastered and subsequently re-issued on Roadrunner Records in 1997. This album is regarded as a milestone of the first wave of black metal.

[edit] Track listing

"A Dangerous Meeting" – 5:10
"Nightmare" – 6:19
"Desecration of Souls" – 4:54
"Night of the Unborn" – 4:59
"The Oath" – 7:31
"Gypsy" – 3:08
"Welcome Princess of Hell" – 4:03
"To One Far Away" – 1:31
"Come to the Sabbath" – 5:19
"Death Kiss" – 4:30

The track "Death Kiss" is a bonus track on the remastered version of the album that was released in 1997. This is an old demo version of the track "A Dangerous Meeting".