King Diamond
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King Diamond (born Kim Bendix Petersen, June 14, 1956, Denmark) is a heavy metal musician that is know for his shifting vocal patterns and has influenced many like Metallica and Trivium. The former football player's first band was Black Rose. In 1980, he formed Mercyful Fate. The band that to a large extent pioneered the genre of hair metal because of the group's stage presence, make-up and occult lyrics. Their musical style is somewhat remenicent of heavy metal, power metal, progressive metal and rock opera. Diamond is renowned for his multi-octave range, varying from low to a very high falsetto.
A distinct feature of Mercyful Fate is that lyrics and music on the albums melt together as one story - features present already in "The Fatal Portrait" album, but carried to amazing levels with the album "Them ", and its part two, "Conspiracy" ... Typical of both the Abigail and Conspiracy tours was that King Diamond re-enacted the scenarios on stage, using special effects in the show much in the style of metal-musician Alice Cooper, whom King Diamond idolizes.
On stage Diamond uses a trademark microphone stand consisting of two femur bones in the shape of a frightening inverted cross. He also used to wear makeup similar to that of Gene Simmons from Kiss. He was sued because of this and has since changed the design multiple times up until recently. With Conspiracy, he wore a mesh of black and white line war paint, with some red "blood" made to look like a wound coming out of his forehead. With his last album "The Puppet Master", he used very little white and mainly had black crosses going up and down his face.
King Diamond fired the rest of Mercyful Fate and took with him several of his bandmates to form a solo band under his own name, King Diamond. Diamond. Mercyful Fate re-united in 1992, while the band King Diamond continued as well. King Diamond is widely recognized as one of the great heavy metal vocalists of all time.
King Diamond continued on with both Mercyful Fate and King Diamond up until 1999, deciding to leave Mercyful Fate and continute on with King Diamond. He released House of God in 2000, Abigail II: The Revenge in 2002, and The Pupper Master in 2003. He released a double disk live album from the Puppet Master Tour ( His first in over a decade ) and another warm up tour in 2005.
In late 2005, King Diamond appeared on the "Road Runner United" album. He did vocals and wrote the lyrics to a song called "In the Fire". The song is on an album being released by Road Runner Records featuring multiple musicians working together to create individual songs. In the song, he has uses his trademark falsetto mixed in with his deep demonic growling. Also in late 2005, King Diamond lent his vocals to a Cradle of Filth song "Devil Woman".
He and his band members are currently working on a 2006 full album release.
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See also
- Mercyful Fate
- King Diamond
- Black Rose
- Brats (pre-Mercyful Fate)
Discography
King Diamond (The Band) Albums
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| 1985 | No Presents for Christmas(Single) | Roadrunner Records | |||
| 1986 | Fatal Portrait | Roadrunner Records | |||
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June, 1987 | Abigail | Roadrunner Records | ||
| 1988 | Them | Roadrunner Records | |||
| 1988 | The Dark Sides (EP) | Roadrunner Records | |||
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1989 | Conspiracy | Roadrunner Records | ||
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1990 | The Eye | Roadrunner Records | ||
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1991 | In Concert 1987: Abigail | Roadrunner Records | ||
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1992 | A Dangerous Meeting (Comp) | Roadrunner Records | ||
| 1995 | The Spider's Lullabye | Metal Blade Records | |||
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1996 | The Graveyard | Metal Blade Records | ||
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1998 | Voodoo | Metal Blade Records | ||
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2000 | House of God | Metal Blade Records | ||
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2001 | Black Rose: 20 Years Ago-A Night of Rehearsals | Metal Blade Records | ||
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2002 | Abigail II: The Revenge | Metal Blade Records | ||
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2003 | The Puppet Master | Metal Blade Records | ||
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2004 | Deadly Lullabyes Live | Metal Blade Records | ||
Mercyful Fate Albums
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1982 | Nuns Have No Fun (EP) | Self-Released/Rave-On Records | ||
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1983 | Melissa | Roadrunner Records | ||
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1984 | Don't Break The Oath | Roadrunner Records | ||
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1987? | The Beginning | Roadrunner Records | ||
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1992 | Return of the Vampire (Comp) | Roadrunner Records | ||
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1993 | In The Shadows | Metal Blade Records | ||
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1994 | The Bell Witch EP | Metal Blade Records | ||
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1994 | Time | Metal Blade Records | ||
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1992 | Into the Unknown | Metal Blade Records | ||
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1998 | Dead Again | Metal Blade Records | ||
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1999 | 9 | Metal Blade Records | ||