The 10 most ridiculous Black Metal videos of all time

A lot of people do consider Mercyful Fate/KD along with Bathory and Venom as the first 'black metal bands" but, with Mercyful Fate is was less the music but more the imagery, theatrics and lyrics and also they are widely considered the band that started 'Corpse paint"-a staple of early black metal (and still today for many bands)..

personally, by todays standards i would not consider Mercyful Fate as black metal, though they are partially resposible for it. others may differ in thier opinion