![]() He continued: "I think there's about six or seven about to be ready. The other guitar player is in Stockholm, Sweden, and our new bass player is in Los Angeles. The drummer is also here, so I work with him in the rehearsal room shaping the new songs. I'm living here north of Copenhagen, in Denmark. At the time, he said about the writing process: "First of all, King is living in Texas, in the States. Two years ago, Shermann confirmed that he was working on the first new music from MERCYFUL FATE in more than two decades. I was sadly mistaken and it was devastating." In the back of my mind, I was thinking Timi would pull through, he would get enough energy to make it. To honor Timi and help them out, thank you for asking me. I didn't have anything else going on - it was supposed to happen this summer. Of course, I was flabbergasted and honored, yeah. If he wasn't, would I consider stepping in and helping out. King pulled me aside backstage and told me the story of Timi going through chemotherapy and had a summer tour booked and wasn't sure he was going to be well enough to do it. And so, he came to see me when I was on tour with FATES WARNING supporting QUEENSRŸCHE in Dallas where he lives. ARMORED SAINT did a tour with King back in 1988-89 we have been friends and labelmates forever. That's a piece of history that we are describing - a nasty piece of history."īack in October 2020, Vera told Dead Rhetoric about how he landed the MERCYFUL FATE gig: "I've been friends with King for some time. But that's also a challenge, to do a version that works live, of course, vocal lines. I can't do the backing vocals, naturally, that is intended for the song. And now we've gotta make it sound correct, 'cause the early demo versions have lots of stuff on that create a certain mood in the whole thing, which we can't do. But that's something to look forward to, definitely. Some drums have been recorded - that's what I can say. So whatever version we might play for you could change before it actually is fully recorded. We're gonna do everything in our power to play it. Regarding the musical and lyrical content of the new MERCYFUL FATE song, King said: "It's quite a monster, I would say. The next couple of days we're gonna see where it leads us." So the others have not heard me sing the song at all. I wrote the final lyrics the day of our departure, I would say, and that's a couple of days ago. In a Twitch livestream from a few days before the June 2 kick-off concert in Hannover, Germany from the MERCYFUL FATE rehearsals, which took place in Glostrup, Denmark, King revealed that he and his bandmates were planning to debut a brand new song at the 2022 shows. Hansen passed away in November 2019 and MERCYFUL FATE's 2020 summer festival appearances were initially rescheduled for 2021 before being moved back to 2022. In 2019, it was announced that Vera would be replacing original MERCYFUL FATE bassist Timi Hansen for the band's summer 2020 European festival appearances due to Hansen's cancer diagnosis. Setlist for MERCYFUL FATE's concert at the Sweden Rock Festival: Holm on drums, Mike Wead on guitar and Joey Vera on bass. Joining frontman King Diamond in MERCYFUL FATE's current lineup are Hank Shermann on guitar, Bjarne T. 139 people were executed as the followers of Wizard Jackl or Magician Jackl or Jäckel, who was himself never found. Lyrically, the song is inspired by one of the last major witch hunts, the Zaubererjackl trials in Salzburg, Austria (1675-90). The influential Danish metallers' 11-song set included a brand new track, "The Jackl Of Salzburg", which is expected to appear on MERCYFUL FATE's upcoming studio album, tentatively due in 2023 via Metal Blade. Fan-filmed video of MERCYFUL FATE's entire June 10 concert at the Sweden Rock Festival in Sölvesborg, Sweden can be viewed below.
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