{"id":20723,"date":"2019-08-01T01:17:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T08:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=20723"},"modified":"2024-04-25T12:39:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T19:39:25","slug":"mercyful-fate-copenhell-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/mercyful-fate-copenhell-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercyful Fate @ Copenhell 2020!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/al_case\/48396954472\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"King Diamond @ Copenhell\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48396954472_455e1db839_h.jpg\" width=\"1024\" alt=\"King Diamond @ Copenhell\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>@COPENHELL #copenhell @RealKingDiamond #KingDiamond #MercyfulFate<\/p>\n<p>As my summer festival season is approaching an end, I was thinking that now there are close to no bands left that I really want to see that I haven&#8217;t. And then this showed up in my email&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The legendary Danish heavy metal band MERCYFUL FATE will make a spectacular return at next year\u2019s COPENHELL festival in Copenhagen, Denmark. <\/p>\n<p>Almost 40 years ago, singer King Diamond and guitarist Hank Shermann created what would later become the most iconic and influential Danish heavy metal band ever&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>The band will perform (at 2020 Copenhell) with the \u201c9\u201d lineup featuring Hank Shermann (guitar), King Diamond (vocals), Bjarne T. Holm (drums), Mike Wead (guitar) and Joey Vera (Bass)&#8230; the set list will only consist of songs from the very first \u2018mini LP\u2019, the \u201cMelissa\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Break The Oath\u201d albums plus some brand new songs written specifically in that very same style.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And now I really must get back to Copenhagen next summer!<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;ve seen <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/king-diamond\/>King Diamond<\/a> a few times (including back in the 1980s), but I don&#8217;t like any of his albums nearly as much as I love <b>Melissa<\/b> and <b>Don&#8217;t Break The Oath<\/b>, and he barely touches those albums live anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@COPENHELL #copenhell @RealKingDiamond #KingDiamond #MercyfulFate As my summer festival season is approaching an end, I was thinking that now there are close to no bands left that I really want to see that I haven&#8217;t. And then this showed up in my email&#8230;. &#8220;The legendary Danish heavy metal band MERCYFUL FATE will make a spectacular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[541,413,590,609,134,594],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20723"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29380,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20723\/revisions\/29380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}