See Captivating Photos From Mercyful Fate's Philadelphia Show

Mercyful Fate kicked off their first North American tour in 23 years earlier this fall, and so they’ve been joined by Midnight and Kreator all through the run thus far. Just a few nights in the past, the trio carried out at The Fillmore in Philadelphia, Pa., a stay music membership with a capability of two,500.

As per Setlist.fm, Midnight opened the night with an eight-song set, considered one of which featured a unadorned girl dancing on the stage. German thrash legends Kreator stored the present rolling with 10 tracks of their very own, after which, shortly after 9PM ET, Mercyful Fate took the stage and delivered 11 songs from their catalog, ending the evening with “Satan’s Fall” because the encore.

Philadelphia-based photographer Alyssa Lorenzon captured an unimaginable set of photographs of all three bands through the evening, which you’ll scroll by means of under.

Over the summer season, Mercyful Fate performed a handful of competition performances, and debuted a brand new track referred to as “The Jackal of Salzburg.” According to a brand new interview that Metal Blade founder Brian Slagel did with The Metal Voice, the band plan to complete recording the track as soon as they return dwelling from the present tour, and it will be launched digitally. It’ll be accessible someday within the subsequent couple of months, after which they’ve one other track that is already been written that they will file and launch afterward.

“So there’ll be two Mercyful Fate songs out there. We’ll probably do some sort of vinyl thing with the two tracks as well,” Slagel defined. “Then we’ll have a King Diamond album following that. And then we’ll go back to kind of the way we did it in the ’90s where the next record will be full Mercyful Fate album.”