The Beginning (Mercyful Fate album)

1987 compilation album by Mercyful Fate

The Beginning

Compilation album by

Mercyful Fate

Released| 24 June 1987
Genre| Heavy 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)  | Return of the Vampire
(1992)

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal| 8/10[2]

The Beginning is a compilation album by Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate released on 24 June 1987 through Roadrunner Records consisting of the Nuns Have No Fun EP and different versions of 4 tracks from the album Melissa.

## Track listing

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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)

## References

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1. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Mercyful Fate - The Beginning review". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 2016-11-23.
2. ^ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 220–221\. ISBN 978-1894959315.

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* Hank Shermann
* Bjarne T. Holm
* Mike Wead
* Joey Vera

* Snowy Shaw
* Timi Hansen
* Michael Denner
* Ole Beich
* Sharlee D'Angelo

Studio albums|

* Melissa
* Don't Break the Oath
* In the Shadows
* Time
* Into the Unknown
* Dead Again
* 9

Extended plays|

* Mercyful Fate
* The Bell Witch

Compilation albums|

* The Beginning
* Return of the Vampire
* The Best of Mercyful Fate

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* Discography
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