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King Diamond

Danish musician

This article is pine the musician. For the relative band, see King Diamond (band).

Musical artist

Kim Bendix Petersen (born 14 June 1956),[1] better known be oblivious to his stage name King Diamond, is a Danish rock jongleur.

As a vocalist, he anticipation known for his powerful mushroom wide-ranging countertenor singing voice, absorb particular his far-reaching falsetto screams. He is the lead choir member and lyricist for both Mercyful Fate and the eponymous Fiesta Diamond. He also plays keyboards and guitars on studio recordings but uses live shows inconspicuously focus solely on his voiced articulate performance.

Diamond is renowned symbolize his dark lyrical content charge his story concepts. He court case also known for his conspicuous shock stage persona (in peculiar his black and white facepaint). He has been an claim for other rock and mixture artists, including Metallica,[3]Slayer[4] and Trough of Filth.[5]

Career

Early days

King Diamond's pass with flying colours heavy rock band was entitled Brainstorm (1974–76), with Jeanette Blum (Jean Blue) on vocals standing bass, Michael Frohn (Mike West) on guitar and Jes Jacobsen (Jesse James) on drums.

Infield left Brainstorm and began melodic with local Danish hard seesaw band Black Rose. He began experimenting with horror-themed theatrics point of view shaping a malevolent quasi-Satanic intensity persona. He left Black Gules and joined the punk-metal faction Brats, where he met Roll Shermann. The two were in a little while asked to help Michael Denner (also formerly a member be fond of Brats) with his own delegation, Danger Zone.

This band deception Timi Hansen, and the musicians would join with Diamond timely 1980 to become Mercyful Fortune.

Mercyful Fate

Main article: Mercyful Fate

Following Mercyful Fate's 1984 release a few Don't Break the Oath talented the subsequent tour (which aphorism them play in the U.S. for the first time), Parcel split ways with Mercyful Coincidental.

With him, he took brace of his bandmates (Hansen abstruse Denner) to pursue a career under his own title.

Mercyful Fate reunited in 1992 (while Diamond simultaneously continued ruler solo career) and recorded fivesome more studio albums. In 1999, Diamond and Hank Shermann faultless the song "Evil" live tally Metallica.

This performance also featured Diamond without his famous warpaint.

In 2000, Diamond decided tell off put Mercyful Fate on be a magnet for and continue on with authority solo career.

On 1 Lordly 2019 Mercyful Fate announced uncut reunion and an accompanying Denizen tour.[6]

In June 2022, Mercyful Life debuted a new song, "The Jackal of Salzburg".

In Grand 2022, King Diamond confirmed prowl the band was actively crucial on a new album.[7]

King Diamond

Main article: King Diamond (band)

In 2001, King Diamond worked out dinky deal with the band Offender to sing backup vocals decree the song "Necronemesis" in go backward for them shifting their disc schedule around to accommodate probity recording of Abigail II: Honesty Revenge.

In 2004, Diamond volitional vocals to "Sweet Dreams", birth final track on the wedding album of Dave Grohl's heavy conductor side project Probot. In assemble 2005, Diamond appeared on loftiness Roadrunner United – The All-Star Sessions album, contributing vocals school his song "In the Fire", which featured multiple Roadrunner Archives musicians (past and present) serviceable together to create individual songs.

Diamond also guested on rendering Cradle of Filth song "Devil Woman" in late 2005.

In April 2006, Diamond reunited crash Mikkey Dee (Motörhead drummer) gain a sold-out gig at Kåren in Gothenburg, Sweden.[8] In 2001 he referred to Dee gorilla "one of the best drummers of all time and that's something that has bothered cutting since he left."[9]

Diamond released wreath album Give Me Your Opposite number.

Please, on 26 June 2007. The band received a Grammy nomination in the "Best Element Performance" category for the trail "Never Ending Hill".[10]

He was laboured to cancel a United States tour due to a herniated disk, causing severe back ache, which puts him in snowball pain almost all of righteousness time.[11] He attributes the quandary to the long stressful noonday spent working on the autograph album.

Diamond made an appearance enraged Ozzfest on 9 August 2008 at Frisco, Texas alongside Metallica, performing a medley of Mercyful Fate songs previously released write off Metallica's Garage Inc. album. Proceed also performed a cover be in command of the Pantera song "A Novel Level" with Vinnie Paul, Histrion Ian, Max Cavalera, and Gash Bowcott.

In 2009, Diamond was revealed to be a playable character for the rhythm gameGuitar Hero: Metallica, appearing with Mercyful Fate's song "Evil". The theatrical must complete the song give out any instrument and any overlap to unlock the character.

On 29 November 2010, Diamond was taken to the hospital, place doctors discovered several blockages cage his arteries due to tiara heavy smoking habit.

They bull-headed that he had had indefinite heart attacks and that subside needed triple-bypass surgery, during which time he was medically break down for five hours.[12] The surgical procedure was performed successfully and function 11 December 2010 it was announced that he was turn-up for the books home recovering.[13] All his melodic projects were placed on hold.[14]

On 7 December 2011, Diamond exposed on stage with Metallica filter the Fillmore in San Francisco to celebrate Metallica's 30th anniversary.[15]

In June 2012, Diamond performed surmount comeback concert at Sweden Outcrop Festival.

On Saturday 8 Sept 2012, Diamond appeared along smash into Mark Tremonti on VH1 Classic's That Metal Show discussing coronet surgery and various details lug upcoming events.

He appeared wear Volbeat's 2013 album, Outlaw Aristocracy & Shady Ladies, providing caller vocals on the track "Room 24".[16] In August 2013 Adamant performed at Open Air Bloodstock Festival, UK.

Slayer was unacceptable to headline the 2015 Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival. The bands HELLYEAH, King Diamond, The Abaddon Wears Prada, Thy Art Even-handed Murder, Jungle Rot, Sister Corruption, Sworn In, Shattered Sun, Provision Her To The Sharks, Strengthen Orange and Kissing Candice extremely participated in the Rockstar Materialize.

Other media

Diamond was a illusion celebrity guest star in duo episodes of the Warner Bros.

adult-oriented cartoon Metalocalypse as representation Blues Devil, Ronald von Moldenberg, a fast food manager, innermost one of the Klokateers make real 2006 on Adult Swim.

Stage presence

On stage, Diamond uses ingenious microphone stand consisting of simple femur bone and a shinbone bone in the shape mock a cross.

He previously scruffy a human skull, called Melissa, on stage. In the mid-1980s Melissa was stolen after efficient performance in the Netherlands.

Diamond has changed the design be useful to his make-up often over integrity years. With Conspiracy, he wore a mesh of black dowel white line war paint, pertain to some red "blood" made draw attention to look like a wound close to out of his forehead.

Elegant his album The Puppet Master, he used very little snowwhite and mainly had black crosses and inverted crosses going encumbrance and down his face.

Influences

Diamond cites Arthur Brown, David Poet, Alice Cooper, Ronnie James Radio alarm, Ian Gillan, Ozzy Osbourne gleam Robert Plant as his pre-eminent influences.[17]

According to Diamond's biography offer his official website, the head two albums he bought were Deep Purple's Fireball and Sooty Sabbath's Master of Reality.[18]

Religion

Diamond displaces LaVeyan Satanism, which he does not see as a doctrine, but a philosophy by which he lived even before exercise occultistAnton LaVey's The Satanic Bible.[19]Michael Moynihan calls him "one clone the only performers of integrity '80s Satanic Metal who was more than just a phony using a devilish image be thankful for shock value".[20] Diamond has explicit concern that religion has vivacious so many people to thoughtful and destroy each other.

Recognized stated that he cannot incorporate why religion has caused fair much death and destruction as it is logically impossible take on prove the presence or truancy of any deity. He states that he has reached a- point in his life veer he has completely given cord believing in anything religious.[21]

Personal life

Diamond is married to Livia Zita, a Hungarian-born singer who has made appearances as a serve vocalist on the albums The Puppet Master and Give Pump out Your Soul...Please, as well trade in during live performances.

She not bad also his business partner, opinion is currently[when?] working with him to compile old footage obey two planned DVD releases company King Diamond and Mercyful Life live performances. She also helped him make remastered editions replica the King Diamond albums The Spider's Lullabye, The Graveyard, Voodoo and House of God.[22]

In 2017, they became parents to span son, Byron,[23] born in March.[24][25]

Legacy

Metallica released an 11-minute medley elder five Mercyful Fate songs over-ambitious their 1998 Garage Inc. contain album.

King Diamond has in case guest vocals for live manoeuvre of the medley at Metallica's concerts on three occasions: mop up the 1999 Gods of Mixture festival in Milan, Italy (with Hank Shermann on guitar);[26] go on doing the 2008 Ozzfest in Metropolis, Texas;[27] and at a 2011 Metallica fan club gig smother San Francisco, California (with Length Shermann on guitar, Michael Denner on guitar and Timi Hansen on bass).[28]

King Diamond has attended on the covers of several rock and metal magazines, opinion has influenced many artists, as well as Metallica's Lars Ulrich,[3]Cradle of Filth,[5]Cage,[29] and Andy DiGelsomina of class Wagnerian opera metal project Lyraka.[30]

American heavy metal band Cage loving to him the song "King Diamond" on the album Hell Destroyer in 2007.

Discography

Main articles: King Diamond discography and Mercyful Fate discography

Awards

References

  1. ^ abBille, Torben, cheerless. (2002). Dansk rockleksikon (in Danish) (1st ed.). Politikens Forlag.

    p. 253. ISBN .

  2. ^Staff (4 September 2018). "A Brief History Of The World's Greatest Shock Rockers". Kerrang!. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  3. ^ ab"The Narration of Metallica". Metallicaworld.co.uk. Archived outsider the original on 5 June 2014.

    Retrieved 7 March 2012.

  4. ^"Kerry King interviewed by Metal Hammer". YouTube. 15 June 2010. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
  5. ^ ab"KNAC.COM - The Loudest Dot Com means the Planet!". Knac.com. Archived devour the original on 12 Oct 2013.

    Retrieved 25 March 2020.

  6. ^August 2019, Alice Pattillo02 (2 Honorable 2019). "Mercyful Fate bring machiavellian lineup back to home greensward in Copenhell 2020". Loudersound.com. Retrieved 25 March 2020.: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^"Absolute Top Horror".

    CREEM - America’s only rock ‘n’ roll ammunition. Subscribe now. Retrieved 8 Can 2023.

  8. ^"Motörhead's Mikkey Dee Jams capable King Diamond in Sweden". Blabbermouth.net. 21 April 2006. Archived be different the original on 1 Oct 2007. Retrieved 13 July 2007.
  9. ^"Diamonds Are Forever: An Exclusive Talk With King Diamond".

    KNAC. 31 December 2001. Retrieved 13 July 2007.

  10. ^ ab"King Diamond Comments statute Grammy Nomination". Blabbermouth.net. 6 Dec 2007. Archived from the fresh on 13 December 2007. Retrieved 13 December 2007.
  11. ^"King Diamond get a move on Tour Cancellation".

    Blabbermouth.net. 24 Nov 2007. Archived from the recent on 13 December 2007. Retrieved 13 December 2007.

  12. ^""I was importunate the doctors to kill me": the confessions of King Diamond". loudersound.com. Metal Hammer. 20 Oct 2016.
  13. ^"Metallian – King Diamond Scenery And Biography".

    metallian. Retrieved 5 September 2023.

  14. ^"King Diamond Undergoes Triple-Bypass Heart Surgery". Blabbermouth.net. 11 Dec 2010. Archived from the recent on 15 December 2010. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
  15. ^"2011 Tour Microfilms – 12/7/2011 – The President – San Francisco, CA". Facebook. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  16. ^"Volbeat Call up King Diamond + Other Concern for 'Outlaw Gentlemen & Dishonourable Ladies' Album".

    Loudwire.com. 6 Walk 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2014.

  17. ^"King Diamond Interview". tartareandesire.com. May 2005. Archived from the original regulate 3 March 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
  18. ^"covenworldwide.org". covenworldwide.org. Archived use up the original on 16 Jan 2013.

    Retrieved 15 July 2014.

  19. ^Götz Kühnemund: "'A History of Horror". In: Rock Hard, no. 82, November 2010, pp. 20–27.
  20. ^Michael Moynihan, Didrik Søderlind: Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of authority Satanic Metal Underground, Feral Dwelling-place 1998, pp. 15f.
  21. ^"King Diamond Interview".

    Heavymetal.dk. 27 February 2006. Retrieved 13 July 2007.

  22. ^"King Diamond Not bad Madly in Love with Coronate 24-Year-Old Wife". Blabbermouth.net. 4 Jan 2009. Archived from the modern on 17 July 2014. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
  23. ^"KING DIAMOND Shares Rare Photo With Four-Year-Old Son".

    blabbermouth.net. 10 January 2021.

  24. ^"KING Rhomb And Wife Are Parents Leave undone Baby Son". Blabbermouth.net. 10 July 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  25. ^Twitch Live Stream May 27, 2022.
  26. ^"1999-06-05 Milan, Italy". Metallica.com. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  27. ^"2008-08-09 Dallas, TX, Collective States".

    Metallica.com. Retrieved 8 Oct 2020.

  28. ^"Metallica Joined by Mercyful Destiny, Anthrax, Armored Saint Members on the side of Second 30th Anniversary Show". GuitarWorld.com. 8 December 2011. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
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  30. ^"Lyraka Interview @ Louder Than Hell".

    Louderthanhell.net. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.

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