Upon its release, Don't Break the Oath charted fifth on the official
British heavy metal album list and was supported by a two month long
sold-out American tour in early 1985. The band's controversial stage
appearance with burning crosses, a microphone stand formed as a cross
made of two human leg bones, as well as other blasphemous rituals
attracted the attention of the then newly formed PRMC (Parental
Resource Music Center) committee, ironically reassuring the band its
position on the charts. But though the album was hugely popular in the
anglophone metal scene, it was conceived in peripheral Denmark. This
book discusses the relationship between center and periphery. It
juxtaposes the Anglophone reticent of heavy metal with the rather
marginalized location of Copenhagen, and examines Mercyful Fate's
relation to the Nordic region more generally. It also takes a close
look at the methods involved in the production of King Diamond's
vocals, and emphasizes the role of the vocalist as just as an
important part of the over-all soundscape as the instrumental
contributions.
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ISBN
9781501354403
Publisert
2021
Utgave
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Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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