Mercyful Fate - Melissa (1983) [Japanese APCY-8027]

Date: March 16, 2010

Mercyful Fate's debut album, Melissa, took Black Sabbath's dark occult obsessions to an extreme, fusing them with the speed and tightened, twin-guitar riffing attack of British metal bands like Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. But the band had a distinctive sound of its own, thanks to the neo-classical flourishes of guitarists Hank Shermann and Michael Denner and the unpredictable vocal leaps of King Diamond, who could jump from a deathly growl to an unearthly falsetto wail in the next line. The band was still finding itself, and some of the songs on Melissa have a tendency to move into long, meandering instrumental sections, but the basic components of Mercyful Fate's influential European gothic black metal sound were already in place.

~ by Steve Huey, allmusic.com

Tracklist:

1. Evil - 4:45
2. Curse Of The Pharaohs - 3:57
3. Into The Coven - 5:11
4. At The Sound Of The Demon Bell - 5:21
5. Black Funeral - 2:49
6. Satan's Fall - 11:25
7. Melissa - 6:43
8. Black Masses - 4:30

EAC extraction logfile

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23. January 2008

EAC extraction logfile from 16. March 2010, 12:36

Mercyful Fate / Melissa [APCY-8027]

Used drive : SONY DVD RW AW-G170A Adapter: 0 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 48
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Installed external ASPI interface

Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
Sample format : 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo

TOC of the extracted CD

Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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1 | 0:00.37 | 4:45.23 | 37 | 21434
2 | 4:45.60 | 3:56.65 | 21435 | 39199
3 | 8:42.50 | 5:11.12 | 39200 | 62536
4 | 13:53.62 | 5:20.50 | 62537 | 86586
5 | 19:14.37 | 2:48.70 | 86587 | 99256
6 | 22:03.32 | 11:24.53 | 99257 | 150609
7 | 33:28.10 | 6:43.02 | 150610 | 180836
8 | 40:11.12 | 4:29.68 | 180837 | 201079

Range status and errors

Selected range

Filename D:\Music\Mercyful Fate - Melissa [APCY-8027].wav

Peak level 91.0 %
Range quality 99.9 %
Test CRC 411C1F19
Copy CRC 411C1F19
Copy OK

No errors occurred

AccurateRip summary

Track 1 not present in database
Track 2 not present in database
Track 3 not present in database
Track 4 not present in database
Track 5 not present in database
Track 6 not present in database
Track 7 not present in database
Track 8 not present in database

None of the tracks are present in the AccurateRip database

End of status report

auCDtect

auCDtect: CD records authenticity detector, version 0.8.2
Copyright © 2004 Oleg Berngardt. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2004 Alexander Djourik. All rights reserved.
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Processing file: [Mercyful Fate - Melissa [APCY-8027].wav]
Detected average hi-boundary frequency: 2.080402e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-boundary frequency: 1.577387e+004 Hz
Detected average hi-cut frequency: 2.176050e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-cut frequency: 1.705660e+004 Hz
Maximum probablis boundary frequency: 2.168700e+004 Hz
Coefficient of nonlinearity of a phase: 2.365857e-001
First order smothness: 4.089208e-001
Second order smothness: 7.145976e-001

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This track looks like CDDA with probability 100%

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Final Conclusion:
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These tracks looks like CDDA with probability 100%

Dynamic Range

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Statistics for: Mercyful Fate - Melissa [APCY-8027].wav
Number of Samples: 118235040
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Peak value: -1.06 dB –- -0.81 dB
Avg RMS: -14.41 dB –- -13.66 dB
DR channel: 11.28 dB –- 11.11 dB
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Official DR value: DR11
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• King Diamond - vocals
• Hank Shermann - guitar
• Michael Denner - guitar
• Timi Grabber - bass
• Kim Ruzz - drums

Recorded and mixed at Easy Sound Recording, Copenhagen, July 1983.
Produced by Henrik Lund.
Engineered by Jacob J. Jorgenson.

lossless * (wv, 300Mb)::
http://www.filesonic.com/file/125452871/036APCY8027MF83MLOS.part1.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/125451551/036APCY8027MF83MLOS.part2.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/125451211/036APCY8027MF83MLOS.part3.rar

covers (jpg, 360dpi, 45Mb):
http://www.filesonic.com/file/125451351/036APCY8027MF83MCOV.rar

* - EAC Image, standard LOG, embedded cuesheet, Foobar2000 ready
Fully & properly repackaged, Huge thanks to the Original Releaser ikebana!
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