Time (Mercyful Fate album) explained

Time
Type:studio
Artist:Mercyful Fate
Cover:Mf 1994.jpg
Released:25 October 1994
Recorded:May–August 1994
Studio:Dallas Sound Lab, Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Genre:Heavy metal
Length:47:00
Label:Metal Blade
Producer:King Diamond, Tim Kimsey and Hank Shermann
Prev Title:The Bell Witch EP
Prev Year:1994
Next Title:Into the Unknown
Next Year:1996

Time is the fourth studio album by the Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate. It was released on 25 October 1994 through Metal Blade Records.

The track "The Mad Arab" is about H. P. Lovecraft's character Abdul Alhazred, the author of the fictional forbidden tome of occult lore The Necronomicon. In the lyric booklet, it is subtitled "Part One: The Vision". The second part appears as the track "Kutulu (The Mad Arab, Part Two)" on the follow-up, Into the Unknown.

Personnel

Mercyful Fate

Production