Mercyful Fate : Melissa (25th Anniversary Edition)

I WAS BORN ON THE CEMETERY

UNDER THE SIGN OF THE MOON

RAISED FROM THE GRAVE 

BY THE DEAD

 Melissa

 is the debut 

studio album

by 

Danish 

Heavy Metal band

 Mercyful Fate 

released in 

October 1983 

through 

Roadrunner Records.

 It was the 

first album

 released by

 Roadrunner Records. 

This was also 

the first

 Mercyful Fate 

effort to get an 

official release

 in the

 United States

 through 

Megaforce Records, 

as the 

self-titled EP 

was a

 highly sought 

after import,

 and the

 BBC sessions 

were only available 

on bootleg tapes. 

Melissa

 has been identified 

as one of the

 earliest examples

 of 

extreme metal, 

and is often

 considered to be

 a major influence 

on the 

then-developing

 thrash metal, 

black metal 

and 

death metal genres.

Melissa 

has been cited as

 "one of the first records

 to start to develop an

 'extreme metal' sound", 

and Justin Wearn 

of This Day in Metal

 noted that, 

"With dark lyrics, 

guitar solos 

prevalent throughout

 the record, 

fast paced

 and double 

bass drums 

throughout, 

and satanic imagery

 in the visuals,

 it was an inspiration

 and influenced

 many popular 

metal bands like 

Metallica, 

Exodus, 

Slayer

 and 

countless others. 

With elements of

 thrash metal, 

musical traits 

you would hear

 in black metal 

and 

death metal 

along with

 progressive metal, 

Melissa 

was a

 groundbreaker

 in heavy metal history

 for multiple reasons.

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