*Updates in progress!

In early 1982, Mercyful Fate had recorded two 4-track demos. The first one contained “Walking Back To Hell”, “Running Free”, “Black Masses” and “Hard Rocker”, as the second one contained “Curse Of The Pharaohs”, “Return Of The Vampire”, “A Corpse Without Soul” and “Burning The Cross”. Then co-manager John Kibble had been knocking on all the major label doors, but even though these demos received some attention from the underground tape-trading circuit, nobody was willing to take that big chance, although a lot of the A&R people liked what the band was doing. Prior to that, the band had already performed a few more headline shows and had also opened for a show of The Gillan Band in Copenhagen, on March 26th 1982.