Canada’s The Metal Voice recently spoke to Mercyful Fate, Fury Bassist Beck Baldwin about her Top 5 Mercyful Fate Songs. Baldwin also gave a status update on Mercyful Fate’s up and coming studio Album.

Watch the video interview below.

When asked about the status update on Mercyful Fate plans for touring  and new studio album

“I’‘m not too sure at the moment in terms of the time frame. Um but yeah, like there is, there is an album in the works. Yeah. So we’ve got the first single  “The Jackal of Salzburg,” that we played on the tour back in 2022. Um there’s yeah another song which I think is very close to being ready. Um and yeah, there you know there was a full album that is  instrumentally pretty much there. So, it just needs rearranging, a lot of the songs need vocals, but I think they’ve got ideas down.”.

When asked if she heard the demos of the new album

“I’ve only heard like the instrumental demos, but yes the Riffs are and there and  they’re very Hank (Sherman) and they’re very early Mercyful Fate.  I think the fans are going to be really happy when they hear the kind of stuff that’s going on.”

When asked if they allow her to contribute musically to the new album

“Hank and King” they are really doing the writing I can contribute, the kind of flavor that the bass is going to bring. They let me have quite a free reign to just try different things out. They prefer to record the bass actually after the vocals. Uh, which I think is very interesting and I think that’s quite nice. It’s obvious because it’s the best instrument that comes last. (laughs).”

When asked if Mercyfat will be a full album or EP

“King’s been working on the King Diamond album and that’s supposed to be his next step, his next  thing to complete is the  (new)King Diamond album.  The amount (of songs) that they have (for Mercyful Fate) that are instrumental tracks so far  is enough for an album but maybe it would be easier, more efficient, more just how things are done these days to do an E.P. just to get things moving a bit faster?   I’ve heard King say different things, how things are different now in the music industry. So do people even want albums? And I think you know metalheads do want albums especially like old school metal heads. But can the industry just operate in a different way these days? It’s more about singles. More bands are doing EPs and stuff like this. So  I’m  not sure but I have heard an album’s worth of material.(for Mercyful Fate).