Mercyful Fate

It's been 20 years since they played a show.

Kerry King joined King Diamond onstage during the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, N.J.

Michael Denner and Hank Shermann were part of some of the most iconic metal albums of all time. They were the guitarists for Mercyful Fate when the band released their seminal albums Melissa and Don't Break the Oath.

Check out this hilarious animated phone conversation with two '90s dudes "tripping out" on Mercyful Fate.

With the exception of Black Sabbath, early heavy metal was built upon a foundation of two-guitar bands. Whether it was the sturdy rhythm/lead axis of Scorpions' Rudolf Schenker and Uli Jon Roth or Judas Priest's legendary K.K. Downing and Glen Tipton team, metal with two guitars is usually twice is good as metal with just one...

Municipal Waste guitarist Ryan Waste has formed Volture, who are in the process of recording the six-song 'Shocking its Prey' EP. He switches back to his roots as a bassist in Volture and allows guitarist Nick Poulos to take on the band's shred duties...

Sebastian Bach has closed a chapter in his rock career. In a lengthy Facebook post on March 14, the former Skid Row frontman wrote in part that the previous night's concert in Sao Paulo opening for Guns N' Roses in front of 60,000 people was "one of the biggest, most important shows of my whole 25-year career so far...

Action! PR, the full-service, boutique agency run by former Relapse PR maven Carl Schultz that represents artists like High on Fire, the Sword and a host of others, will sponsor their first official South by Southwest showcase on March 17 at The Mohawk...

"Do you really think we care about sacred songs?" laughs Six Feet Under frontman Chris Barnes. He's responding to a question about how the best-selling death metal band short-listed the cover songs for 'Graveyard Classics III.' "Actually," he reconsiders, "I can't remember what song it is now, but there was a song someone said to me recently, 'Man, you should try this...

"I can't tell you how many times I said I have enough of this f---ing s---," King Diamond told Noisecreep about the reissues he is and has been working on, which include four King Diamond remasters and visual material for DVDs on tap for next year...