The Beginning (Mercyful Fate album)

The Beginning
Compilation album by Mercyful Fate
Released 1987
Genre Heavy metal, thrash metal
Length 44:53
Label Roadrunner
Producer Jac Hustinx, Henrik Lund, Tony Wilson
Mercyful Fate chronology

Don't Break the Oath
(1984)
The Beginning
(1987)
A Dangerous Meeting
(1992)
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The Beginning is a compilation album by Mercyful Fate released in 1987 consisting of the Nuns Have No Fun EP and different versions of 5 tracks from the album "Melissa".

Track listing

  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)

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