180g black vinyl LP pressing. Lyric/photo insert and large poster included. Slayer's awesome debut. The album is packed with wild riffs and high-pitched screams that are not normally associated with the thrash scene.
All of Mercyful Fate's potential was fulfilled on Don't Break the Oath, a doomy, gothic collection of post-Priest/Maiden black metal preoccupied with Satan and the occult.
Released in 1986, Fatal Portrait is the debut King Diamond album, unusually not a conceptual affair, although five of the songs link to form a short ghost story, a theme that would be returned to again and again over subsequent releases.
