MERCYFUL FATE Proclaims Competition & Tour Dates Round The World

Mercyful Destiny is hitting up venues and festivals around the globe beginning this June. The band was additionally engaged on their first new file since 1999 over the pandemic, which vocalist King Diamond referred to as “very old school.”

“…for Mercy, I even have the title, however I am not giving it out to anyone for the time being,” he stated. “We now have the entrance cowl for the brand new Mercy too. It is very right, very proper for Mercyful Destiny. It is very again to fundamentals.”

Steel Blade Data founder and CEO Brian Slagel additionally gave a current replace on the brand new Mercyful Destiny. file, saying it must be out “soon-ish.”

“I had a very good dialog with [King Diamond] the opposite day, and he is engaged on each King Diamond and Mercyful Destiny. I might need heard a demo or two that sounded actually, actually good.

“I do not know when both of those information are gonna come out, ‘trigger King likes to do issues at his personal pace. It is, like, ‘Hey, no matter works for you is completely high quality with me.’ However I used to be very proud of what I’ve heard to this point. So hopefully all people might be fairly completely satisfied.

“Mercyful Destiny is doing a bunch of festivals this summer time — knock on wooden — so long as they do not get canceled. After which they’re additionally enjoying Psycho fest in Las Vegas, which I feel will certainly be the one U.S. date. There is a risk there may very well be a Canadian date someplace alongside the road right here too. However we’ll see.

“However there might be a brand new King Diamond file, I am hoping, in 2023. And there may even be a brand new Mercyful Destiny file someday soon-ish.”

Get the dates beneath.

6/2 – Expo Plaza – Hannover, Germany (with Volbeat)
6/4 – Mystic Competition – Gdańsk, Poland
6/10 – Sweden Rock – Sölvesborg, Sweden
6/14 – Wuhlheide – Berlin, Germany (with Volbeat)
6/16 – Graspop Steel Assembly – Dessel, Belgium
6/18 – Copenhell – Copenhagen, Denmark
6/24 – Rock The Fort – Verona, Italy
6/26 – Hellfest Open Air Competition – Clisson, France
7/1 – Rock Fest Barcelona – Barcelona, Spain
7/2 – Tuska Open Air – Helsinki, Finland
7/22 – Hills Of Rock – Plovdiv, Bulgaria
7/24 – Artmania Competition – Sibiu, Romania
7/28 – Fezen Competition – Székesfehérvár, Hungary
7/29 – Metaldays – Tolmin, Slovenia
8/4 – Wacken Open Air – Wacken, Germany
8/6 – Past The Gates – Bergen, Norway
8/11 – Brutal Assault – Jaromer, Czech Republic
8/13 – Bloodstock Open Air – Derbyshire, UK
8/21 – Psycho Las Vegas – Las Vegas, NV