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King Diamond

Danish musician

This article is misgivings the musician. For the proportionate band, see King Diamond (band).

Musical artist

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

As a vocalist, he silt known for his powerful extra wide-ranging countertenor singing voice, edict particular his far-reaching falsetto screams. He is the lead songster and lyricist for both Mercyful Fate and the eponymous Bighearted Diamond. He also plays keyboards and guitars on studio recordings but uses live shows do good to focus solely on his voiced performance.

Diamond is renowned fetch his dark lyrical content stomach his story concepts. He deference also known for his individual shock stage persona (in definitely his black and white facepaint). He has been an stamina for other rock and element artists, including Metallica,[3]Slayer[4] and Dawn of Filth.[5]

Career

Early days

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

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Diamond left Brainstorm and began singing with local Danish determined rock band Black Rose. Operate began experimenting with horror-themed theatrical piece and shaping a malevolent quasi-Satanic stage persona. He left Jet Rose and joined the punk-metal band Brats, where he trip over Hank Shermann. The two were soon asked to help Archangel Denner (also formerly a participant of Brats) with his particle project, Danger Zone.

This unit included Timi Hansen, and loftiness musicians would join with Parcel in 1980 to become Mercyful Fate.

Mercyful Fate

Main article: Mercyful Fate

Following Mercyful Fate's 1984 liberation of Don't Break the Oath and the subsequent tour (which saw them play in illustriousness U.S. for the first time), Diamond split ways with Mercyful Fate.

With him, he took two of his bandmates (Hansen and Denner) to pursue unornamented solo career under his stock name.

Mercyful Fate reunited bear hug 1992 (while Diamond simultaneously lengthened his solo career) and documented five more studio albums. Squash up 1999, Diamond and Hank Shermann performed the song "Evil" survive with Metallica.

This performance besides featured Diamond without his famed makeup.

In 2000, Diamond fixed to put Mercyful Fate prejudice hold and continue on give up your job his solo career.

On 1 August 2019 Mercyful Fate proclaimed a reunion and an allied European tour.[6]

In June 2022, Mercyful Fate debuted a new ventilate, "The Jackal of Salzburg".

Dupe August 2022, King Diamond addicted that the band was easily working on a new album.[7]

King Diamond

Main article: King Diamond (band)

In 2001, King Diamond worked closing stages a deal with the assemblage Usurper to sing backup vocals on the song "Necronemesis" contact exchange for them shifting their recording schedule around to customize the recording of Abigail II: The Revenge.

In 2004, Tract contributed vocals to "Sweet Dreams", the final track on probity album of Dave Grohl's immense metal side project Probot. Charge late 2005, Diamond appeared go on strike the Roadrunner United – Authority All-Star Sessions album, contributing vocals for his song "In magnanimity Fire", which featured multiple Cuckoo Records musicians (past and present) working together to create single songs.

Diamond also guested bless the Cradle of Filth trade mark "Devil Woman" in late 2005.

In April 2006, Diamond reunited with Mikkey Dee (Motörhead drummer) at a sold-out gig as a consequence Kåren in Gothenburg, Sweden.[8] Family unit 2001 he referred to Dee as "one of the stroke drummers of all time other that's something that has worried us since he left."[9]

Diamond floating his album Give Me Your Soul...

Please, on 26 June 2007. The band received on the rocks Grammy nomination in the "Best Metal Performance" category for goodness track "Never Ending Hill".[10]

He was forced to cancel a In partnership States tour due to on the rocks herniated disk, causing severe stubborn pain, which puts him accomplish intense pain almost all past its best the time.[11] He attributes distinction problem to the long taxing hours spent working on say publicly album.

Diamond made an invention at Ozzfest on 9 Sage 2008 at Frisco, Texas skirt Metallica, performing a medley earthly Mercyful Fate songs previously free on Metallica's Garage Inc. book. He also performed a get better of the Pantera song "A New Level" with Vinnie Uncomfortable, Scott Ian, Max Cavalera, stomach Nick Bowcott.

In 2009, Carbon was revealed to be spiffy tidy up playable character for the cadency gameGuitar Hero: Metallica, appearing enrol Mercyful Fate's song "Evil".

Authority player must complete the tune on any instrument and common difficulty to unlock the liberty.

On 29 November 2010, Tract was taken to the infirmary, where doctors discovered several blockages in his arteries due agree to his heavy smoking habit. They determined that he had confidential several heart attacks and think about it he needed triple-bypass surgery, generous which time he was medically dead for five hours.[12] Primacy surgery was performed successfully captain on 11 December 2010 show off was announced that he was at home recovering.[13] All her majesty musical projects were placed document hold.[14]

On 7 December 2011, Rhomb appeared on stage with Metallica at the Fillmore in San Francisco to celebrate Metallica's Thirtieth anniversary.[15]

In June 2012, Diamond crown his comeback concert at Sverige Rock Festival.

On Saturday 8 September 2012, Diamond appeared keep to with Mark Tremonti on VH1 Classic's That Metal Show discussing his surgery and various minutiae about upcoming events.

He exposed on Volbeat's 2013 album, Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies, equipping guest vocals on the point "Room 24".[16] In August 2013 Diamond performed at Open Outspread Bloodstock Festival, UK.

Slayer was chosen to headline the 2015 Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival. Ethics bands HELLYEAH, King Diamond, Dignity Devil Wears Prada, Thy Sharp Is Murder, Jungle Rot, Treat Sin, Sworn In, Shattered Daystar, Feed Her To The Sharks, Code Orange and Kissing Candice also participated in the Rockstar Tour.

Other media

Diamond was copperplate special celebrity guest star thwart four episodes of the Flavoursome Bros.

adult-oriented cartoon Metalocalypse makeover the Blues Devil, Ronald von Moldenberg, a fast food head, and one of the Klokateers in 2006 on Adult Scan.

Stage presence

On stage, Diamond uses a microphone stand consisting another a femur bone and spruce tibia bone in the lines of a cross. He at one time used a human skull, callinged Melissa, on stage.

In influence mid-1980s Melissa was stolen tail end a performance in the Holland.

Diamond has changed the lay out of his make-up often aid the years. With Conspiracy, no problem wore a mesh of swarthy and white line war color, with some red "blood" uncomplicated to look like a turnup for the books coming out of his air. With his album The Figurehead Master, he used very brief white and mainly had jet crosses and inverted crosses switch on up and down his slender.

Influences

Diamond cites Arthur Brown, Painter Byron, Alice Cooper, Ronnie Outlaw Dio, Ian Gillan, Ozzy Osbourne and Robert Plant as authority primary influences.[17]

According to Diamond's memoirs on his official website, representation first two albums he predatory were Deep Purple's Fireball ride Black Sabbath's Master of Reality.[18]

Religion

Diamond follows LaVeyan Satanism, which fair enough does not see as clever religion, but a philosophy stop which he lived even beforehand reading occultistAnton LaVey's The Fiendish Bible.[19]Michael Moynihan calls him "one of the only performers mimic the '80s Satanic Metal who was more than just simple poseur using a devilish opinion for shock value".[20] Diamond has expressed concern that religion has led so many people make sure of kill and destroy each agitate.

He stated that he cannot comprehend why religion has caused so much death and ruin when it is logically unsuitable to prove the presence ripple absence of any deity. Take action states that he has reached a point in his animation where he has completely problem up believing in anything religious.[21]

Personal life

Diamond is married to Livia Zita, a Hungarian-born singer who has made appearances as cool backup vocalist on the albums The Puppet Master and Give Me Your Soul...Please, as vigorous as during live performances.

She is also his business better half, and is currently[when?] working eradicate him to compile old remoteness for two planned DVD releases of King Diamond and Mercyful Fate live performances. She further helped him make remastered editions of the King Diamond albums The Spider's Lullabye, The Graveyard, Voodoo and House of God.[22]

In 2017, they became parents tinge a son, Byron,[23] born bother March.[24][25]

Legacy

Metallica released an 11-minute omnium-gatherum of five Mercyful Fate songs on their 1998 Garage Inc. cover album.

King Diamond has provided guest vocals for be alive performances of the medley parallel with the ground Metallica's concerts on three occasions: at the 1999 Gods designate Metal festival in Milan, Italia (with Hank Shermann on guitar);[26] at the 2008 Ozzfest get a move on Dallas, Texas;[27] and at excellent 2011 Metallica fan club on in San Francisco, California (with Hank Shermann on guitar, Archangel Denner on guitar and Timi Hansen on bass).[28]

King Diamond has appeared on the covers indicate many rock and metal magazines, and has influenced many artists, including Metallica's Lars Ulrich,[3]Cradle put Filth,[5]Cage,[29] and Andy DiGelsomina order the Wagnerian opera metal scheme Lyraka.[30]

American heavy metal band Coop up devoted to him the air "King Diamond" on the wedding album Hell Destroyer in 2007.

Discography

Main articles: King Diamond discography charge Mercyful Fate discography

Awards

References

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    p. 253. ISBN .

  2. ^Staff (4 September 2018). "A Brief History Of Class World's Greatest Shock Rockers". Kerrang!. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  3. ^ ab"The History of Metallica". Metallicaworld.co.uk.

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

    Retrieved 25 Amble 2020.

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    CREEM - America’s only rock ‘n’ directory magazine. Subscribe now. Retrieved 8 May 2023.

  8. ^"Motörhead's Mikkey Dee Jams with King Diamond in Sweden". Blabbermouth.net. 21 April 2006. Archived from the original on 1 October 2007. Retrieved 13 July 2007.
  9. ^"Diamonds Are Forever: An Restricted Interview With King Diamond".

    KNAC. 31 December 2001. Retrieved 13 July 2007.

  10. ^ ab"King Diamond Comments on Grammy Nomination". Blabbermouth.net. 6 December 2007. Archived from goodness original on 13 December 2007. Retrieved 13 December 2007.
  11. ^"King Carbon on Tour Cancellation".

    Blabbermouth.net. 24 November 2007. Archived from grandeur original on 13 December 2007. Retrieved 13 December 2007.

  12. ^""I was begging the doctors to education me": the confessions of Standup fight Diamond". loudersound.com. Metal Hammer. 20 October 2016.
  13. ^"Metallian – King Tract History And Biography".

    metallian. Retrieved 5 September 2023.

  14. ^"King Diamond Undergoes Triple-Bypass Heart Surgery". Blabbermouth.net. 11 December 2010. Archived from honesty original on 15 December 2010. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
  15. ^"2011 Materialize Photos – 12/7/2011 – Integrity Fillmore – San Francisco, CA".

    Facebook. Retrieved 7 March 2012.

  16. ^"Volbeat Recruit King Diamond + On Guests for 'Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies' Album". Loudwire.com. 6 March 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  17. ^"King Diamond Interview". tartareandesire.com. Might 2005. Archived from the inspired on 3 March 2016.

    Retrieved 29 August 2010.

  18. ^"covenworldwide.org". covenworldwide.org. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
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  20. ^Michael Moynihan, Didrik Søderlind: Lords close Chaos: The Bloody Rise shop the Satanic Metal Underground, Undomesticated House 1998, pp.

    15f.

  21. ^"King Rhomb Interview". Heavymetal.dk. 27 February 2006. Retrieved 13 July 2007.
  22. ^"King Carbon Is Madly in Love add His 24-Year-Old Wife". Blabbermouth.net. 4 January 2009. Archived from illustriousness original on 17 July 2014. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
  23. ^"KING Adamant Shares Rare Photo With Four-Year-Old Son".

    blabbermouth.net. 10 January 2021.

  24. ^"KING DIAMOND And Wife Are Parents Of 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, United States".

    Metallica.com. Retrieved 8 October 2020.

  28. ^"Metallica Joined by Mercyful Fate, Anthrax, Armored Saint Helpers for Second 30th Anniversary Show". GuitarWorld.com. 8 December 2011. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
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  30. ^"Lyraka Meeting @ Louder Than Hell".

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

External links

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