Melissa

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 their self-titled EP was a highly sought after import, and the BBC sessions were only available on bootleg tapes. Although Mercyful Fate is often identified as one of the key bands in the first wave of black metal, Melissa's sound is more akin to the new wave of British heavy metal, while the album also featured elements of what would later become black metal, death metal, thrash metal and progressive metal. Melissa has also been recognised as one of the first extreme metal albums, and was highly influential to the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s metal scenes. Music is credited to Hank Shermann and lyrics to King Diamond. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)