The supergroup also includes Snowy Shaw (King Diamond, Therion, Sabaton) on drums, Marc Grabowski (Demonica) on bass guitar, and Sean Peck (Cage, Death Dealer) on vocals.

Shermann comments:

We are happy to be able to release a video for the title track, which was the first song that really got us going as a band. Now we are building upon the shadowy metal essence of what we created with the Satan’s Tomb EP and are moving forward with a full-length release for next year.

Denner says:

Creating these songs with this line-up really ignited my metal fire hotter than ever! I’m sure the fans are going to love this thing.

Shermann adds:

This mix ended up really having an old school feel to it that sounds awesome when blasting at an unhealthy volume.

Order Satan’s Tomb here.

Rock Hard \m/

Michael Denner and Hank Shermann, the original guitar players of Mercyful Fate‘s legendary Melissa and Don’t Break the Oath albums, have created a new classic in the forthcoming EP, Satan’s Tomb, coming in 2015, on Metal Blade Records. These songs were crafted with the Mercyful Fate worldwide legion of fans at the forefront of their collective minds. From the first riff to the last wail, one cannot help but feel the magic newly recaptured once again.

The band, which is simply called Denner / Shermann, calls into service a formidable group of allies who were capable of helping realize this menagerie of malice, was a task carefully orchestrated by these metal mad scientists. Shermann first called upon Marc Grabowski (Demonica) to handle the bass guitar, followed by the only drummer that made sense for many obvious aspects, the one known as Snowy Shaw (Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, Dream Evil)! Many voices were considered, but fate led them to Sean Peck (Cage and Death Dealer). He was not only a fan, but also had the versatile vocal skills to make the new songs come to life like their fans would expect.

Hank Shermann said:

We have been writing and recording with an incredible lineup of musicians and the fans are in for a dark, classic, heavy metal treat for sure. We wanted to get back to the essence of what we created back in the early ’80s. The music inevitably sounds like you would hope it to be, fans of our early work should be very excited.

Music for their debut release has been completed, and the title of the album is Satan’s Tomb, and it promises to be one of the finest pure classic metal releases of 2015.

Rock Hard \m/