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Mercyful Fate

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Mercyful Fate

Summary

Mercyful Fate is a heavy metal band[1]. It draws 1,902 Wikipedia views per month (heavy_metal_band category, ranking #15 of 61).[2]

Key Facts

  • Mercyful Fate's instance of is recorded as heavy metal band[3].
  • Mercyful Fate's genre is heavy metal music[4].
  • Mercyful Fate's record label is recorded as Roadrunner Records[5].
  • Mercyful Fate's discography is recorded as Mercyful Fate discography[6].
  • Mercyful Fate's Commons category is recorded as Mercyful Fate[7].
  • Mercyful Fate's country of origin is recorded as Denmark[8].
  • Mercyful Fate comprises King Diamond[9].
  • 1981 marks the founding of Mercyful Fate[10].
  • Mercyful Fate's location of formation is recorded as Copenhagen[11].
  • Mercyful Fate's official website is recorded as http://www.kingdiamondcoven.com/[12].
  • Mercyful Fate's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Mercyful Fate[13].
  • Mercyful Fate's topic has template is recorded as Template:Mercyful Fate[14].
  • Mercyful Fate's start of work period is recorded as 1981[15].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Group[16]

  • Country: DK[17]

  • Began / founded: 1981[18]

  • Genre(s): heavy metal, metal[19]

  • Community tags: heavy metal, metal[20]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 9b137ab6-5987-4606-989b-183cdb2d3e50[21]

Why It Matters

Mercyful Fate draws 1,902 Wikipedia views per month (heavy_metal_band category, ranking #15 of 61).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22]

Related Entities

Denmark King Diamond Roadrunner Records

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [21] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4w ago · Ytterbyz · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Genre → —
    Record label → Roadrunner Records
    Location of formation → Copenhagen
    Work period start → —
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P6927]]: mercyful-fate, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/214800877|mercyful fate (#214800877)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7190|NME artist]]"
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