''Time'' is the fourth
studio album by the Danish
heavy metal band
Mercyful Fate
Mercyful Fate is a Danish heavy metal band from Copenhagen, formed in 1981 by vocalist King Diamond and guitarist Hank Shermann. Influenced by progressive rock and hard rock, and with lyrics dealing with Satan and the occult, Mercyful Fate ...
. It was released on 25 October 1994 by
Metal Blade Records
Metal Blade Records is an American independent record label founded by Brian Slagel in 1982. The US office for Metal Blade is located in Agoura Hills, California. It also has offices in Germany, Japan, Canada, and the UK. The label is distr ...
.
The track "The Mad Arab" is about
H. P. Lovecraft's character
Abdul Alhazred, the author of the fictional forbidden tome of occult lore
The Necronomicon. In the lyric booklet, it is subtitled "Part One: The Vision". The second part appears as the track "Kutulu (The Mad Arab, Part Two)" on the follow-up,
Into the Unknown.
Track listing
Personnel
Mercyful Fate
*
King Diamond
Kim Bendix Petersen (born 14 June 1956), better known by his stage name King Diamond, is a Danish rock musician. As a vocalist, he is known for his powerful and wide-ranging countertenor singing voice, in particular his far-reaching falsetto s ...
– vocals, harpsichord, keyboards, producer, mixing
*Hank Shermann – guitars, associate producer, mixing
*Michael Denner – guitars
*
Sharlee D'Angelo
Sharlee D'Angelo (born Charles Petter Andreason, 27 April 1973) is the Swedish bassist for the melodic death metal band Arch Enemy, as well as the classic rock/AOR band the Night Flight Orchestra and the stoner metal band Spiritual Beggars.
D ...
– bass
*
Snowy Shaw
Snowy Shaw (born Tommie Mike Christer Helgesson on 25 July 1968) is a Swedish heavy metal musician (primarily a drummer) based in the port city of Gothenburg in the west coast of Sweden. He has played with many heavy metal bands, like King Dia ...
– drums
Production
*
Tim Kimsey – producer, engineer, mixing
*Kevin Wade – assistant engineer
*Frank Salazar – pre-mastering
*Eddy Schreyer – mastering at Future Disc, Los Angeles
References
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Mercyful Fate albums
1994 albums
Metal Blade Records albums
Cthulhu Mythos music