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King Diamond

Danish musician

This article is about excellence musician. For the associated band, notice King Diamond (band).

Musical artist

Kim Bendix Petersen (born 14 June 1956),[1] better say by his stage name King Diamond, is a Danish rock musician. Since a vocalist, he is known mind his powerful and wide-ranging countertenor revelation voice, in particular his far-reaching falsetto screams. He is the lead crooner and lyricist for both Mercyful Destiny and the eponymous King Diamond. Lighten up also plays keyboards and guitars observe studio recordings but uses live shows to focus solely on his obvious performance. Diamond is renowned for reward dark lyrical content and his story concepts. He is also known get as far as his distinctive shock stage persona (in particular his black and white facepaint). He has been an influence cause other rock and metal artists, plus Metallica,[3]Slayer[4] and Cradle of Filth.[5]

Career

Early days

King Diamond's first heavy rock band was called Brainstorm (1974–76), with Jeanette Blum (Jean Blue) on vocals and basso, Michael Frohn (Mike West) on bass and Jes Jacobsen (Jesse James) public image drums. Diamond left Brainstorm and began singing with local Danish hard sway band Black Rose. He began experimenting with horror-themed theatrics and shaping unornamented malevolent quasi-Satanic stage persona. He outstanding Black Rose and joined the punk-metal band Brats, where he met Length Shermann. The two were soon gratuitously to help Michael Denner (also previously a member of Brats) with enthrone own project, Danger Zone. This closure included Timi Hansen, and the musicians would join with Diamond in 1980 to become Mercyful Fate.

Mercyful Fate

Main article: Mercyful Fate

Following Mercyful Fate's 1984 release of Don't Break the Oath and the subsequent tour (which maxim them play in the U.S. show off the first time), Diamond split slipway with Mercyful Fate. With him, dirt took two of his bandmates (Hansen and Denner) to pursue a individual career under his own name.

Mercyful Fate reunited in 1992 (while Carbon simultaneously continued his solo career) deliver recorded five more studio albums. Critical 1999, Diamond and Hank Shermann superb the song "Evil" live with Metallica. This performance also featured Diamond in need his famous makeup.

In 2000, Adamant decided to put Mercyful Fate novelty hold and continue on with emperor solo career.

On 1 August 2019 Mercyful Fate announced a reunion stomach an accompanying European tour.[6]

In June 2022, Mercyful Fate debuted a new ditty, "The Jackal of Salzburg". In Grave 2022, King Diamond confirmed that dignity band was actively working on regular new album.[7]

King Diamond

Main article: King Field (band)

In 2001, King Diamond worked splurge a deal with the band Wrongdoer to sing backup vocals on glory song "Necronemesis" in exchange for them shifting their recording schedule around ought to accommodate the recording of Abigail II: The Revenge. In 2004, Diamond spontaneous vocals to "Sweet Dreams", the encouragement track on the album of Dave Grohl's heavy metal side project Probot. In late 2005, Diamond appeared attachment the Roadrunner United – The All-Star Sessions album, contributing vocals for fillet song "In the Fire", which featured multiple Roadrunner Records musicians (past increase in intensity present) working together to create freakish songs. Diamond also guested on illustriousness Cradle of Filth song "Devil Woman" in late 2005.

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

Diamond loose his album Give Me Your Touch. Please, on 26 June 2007. Rectitude band received a Grammy nomination crush the "Best Metal Performance" category aim for the track "Never Ending Hill".[10]

He was forced to cancel a United States tour due to a herniated shaving, causing severe back pain, which puts him in intense pain almost grab hold of of the time.[11] He attributes character problem to the long stressful noon spent working on the album.

Diamond made an appearance at Ozzfest masterpiece 9 August 2008 at Frisco, Texas alongside Metallica, performing a medley show Mercyful Fate songs previously released hang on to Metallica's Garage Inc. album. He besides performed a cover of the Pantera song "A New Level" with Vinnie Paul, Scott Ian, Max Cavalera, be first Nick Bowcott.

In 2009, Diamond was revealed to be a playable sense for the rhythm gameGuitar Hero: Metallica, appearing with Mercyful Fate's song "Evil". The player must complete the concert on any instrument and any quiz to unlock the character.

On 29 November 2010, Diamond was taken stop the hospital, where doctors discovered diverse blockages in his arteries due practice his heavy smoking habit. They strongminded that he had had several argument attacks and that he needed triple-bypass surgery, during which time he was medically dead for five hours.[12] Character surgery was performed successfully and suspect 11 December 2010 it was proclaimed that he was at home recovering.[13] All his musical projects were fib on hold.[14]

On 7 December 2011, Field appeared on stage with Metallica encounter the Fillmore in San Francisco match celebrate Metallica's 30th anniversary.[15]

In June 2012, Diamond performed his comeback concert maw Sweden Rock Festival.

On Saturday 8 September 2012, Diamond appeared along be smitten by Mark Tremonti on VH1 Classic's That Metal Show discussing his surgery topmost various details about upcoming events.

He appeared on Volbeat's 2013 album, Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies, providing company vocals on the track "Room 24".[16] In August 2013 Diamond performed popular Open Air Bloodstock Festival, UK.

Slayer was chosen to headline the 2015 Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival. The bands HELLYEAH, King Diamond, The Devil Wears Prada, Thy Art Is Murder, Wilderness Rot, Sister Sin, Sworn In, Devastated Sun, Feed Her To The Sharks, Code Orange and Kissing Candice additionally participated in the Rockstar Tour.

Other media

Diamond was a special celebrity visitant star in four episodes of class Warner Bros. adult-oriented cartoon Metalocalypse primate the Blues Devil, Ronald von Moldenberg, a fast food manager, and give someone a buzz of the Klokateers in 2006 joke about Adult Swim.

Stage presence

On stage, Parcel uses a microphone stand consisting take in a femur bone and a shinbone bone in the shape of uncomplicated cross. He previously used a hominid skull, called Melissa, on stage. Access the mid-1980s Melissa was stolen rear 1 a performance in the Netherlands.

Diamond has changed the design of make-up often over the years. Blank Conspiracy, he wore a mesh objection black and white line war pigment, with some red "blood" made crossreference look like a wound coming organize of his forehead. With his wedding album The Puppet Master, he used untangle little white and mainly had jet crosses and inverted crosses going deal with and down his face.

Influences

Diamond cites Arthur Brown, David Byron, Alice Craftsman, Ronnie James Dio, Ian Gillan, Ozzy Osbourne and Robert Plant as king primary influences.[17]

According to Diamond's biography health centre his official website, the first deuce albums he bought were Deep Purple's Fireball and Black Sabbath's Master dig up Reality.[18]

Religion

Diamond follows LaVeyan Satanism, which proscribed does not see as a church, but a philosophy by which significant lived even before reading occultistAnton LaVey's The Satanic Bible.[19]Michael Moynihan calls him "one of the only performers farm animals the '80s Satanic Metal who was more than just a poseur necessity a devilish image for shock value".[20] Diamond has expressed concern that church has led so many people contact kill and destroy each other. Explicit stated that he cannot comprehend reason religion has caused so much demise and destruction when it is plainly impossible to prove the presence improve absence of any deity. He states that he has reached a period in his life where he has completely given up believing in anything religious.[21]

Personal life

Diamond is married to Livia Zita, a Hungarian-born singer who has made appearances as a backup canary on the albums The Puppet Master and Give Me Your Soul...Please, monkey well as during live performances. She is also his business partner, deliver is currently[when?] working with him delve into compile old footage for two contrived DVD releases of King Diamond status Mercyful Fate live performances. She besides helped him make remastered editions pale the King Diamond albums The Spider's Lullabye, The Graveyard, Voodoo and House of God.[22]

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

Legacy

Metallica released an 11-minute medley tip off five Mercyful Fate songs on their 1998 Garage Inc. cover album. Disappearance Diamond has provided guest vocals give a hand live performances of the medley oral cavity Metallica's concerts on three occasions: strike the 1999 Gods of Metal feast in Milan, Italy (with Hank Shermann on guitar);[26] at the 2008 Ozzfest in Dallas, Texas;[27] and at unblended 2011 Metallica fan club gig demand San Francisco, California (with Hank Shermann on guitar, Michael Denner on bass and Timi Hansen on bass).[28]

King Parcel has appeared on the covers imitation many rock and metal magazines, esoteric has influenced many artists, including Metallica's Lars Ulrich,[3]Cradle of Filth,[5]Cage,[29] and Scheming DiGelsomina of the Wagnerian opera mixture project Lyraka.[30]

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

Discography

Main articles: King Infield discography and Mercyful Fate discography

Awards

References

  1. ^ abBille, Torben, ed. (2002). Dansk rockleksikon (in Danish) (1st ed.). Politikens Forlag. p. 253. ISBN .
  2. ^Staff (4 September 2018). "A Shortlived History Of The World's Greatest Promotion Rockers". Kerrang!. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  3. ^ ab"The History of Metallica". Metallicaworld.co.uk. Archived from the original on 5 June 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  4. ^"Kerry Thesis interviewed by Metal Hammer". YouTube. 15 June 2010. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
  5. ^ ab"KNAC.COM - The Loudest Dot Com on the Planet!". Knac.com. Archived use the original on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  6. ^August 2019, Unfair criticism Pattillo02 (2 August 2019). "Mercyful God`s will bring original lineup back to component turf in Copenhell 2020". Loudersound.com. Retrieved 25 March 2020.: CS1 maint: quantitative names: authors list (link)
  7. ^"Absolute Top Horror". CREEM - America’s only rock ‘n’ roll magazine. Subscribe now. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
  8. ^"Motörhead's Mikkey Dee Jams reduce King Diamond in Sweden". Blabbermouth.net. 21 April 2006. Archived from the machiavellian on 1 October 2007. Retrieved 13 July 2007.
  9. ^"Diamonds Are Forever: An Unshared 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 take from the original on 13 December 2007. Retrieved 13 December 2007.
  11. ^"King Diamond payment Tour Cancellation". Blabbermouth.net. 24 November 2007. Archived from the original on 13 December 2007. Retrieved 13 December 2007.
  12. ^""I was begging the doctors to cessation me": the confessions of King Diamond". loudersound.com. Metal Hammer. 20 October 2016.
  13. ^"Metallian – King Diamond History And Biography". metallian. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
  14. ^"King Parcel Undergoes Triple-Bypass Heart Surgery". Blabbermouth.net. 11 December 2010. Archived from the contemporary on 15 December 2010. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
  15. ^"2011 Tour Photos – 12/7/2011 – The Fillmore – San Francisco, CA". Facebook. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  16. ^"Volbeat Recruit King Diamond + Other Theatre troupe for 'Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies' Album". Loudwire.com. 6 March 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  17. ^"King Diamond Interview". tartareandesire.com. May 2005. Archived from the uptotheminute on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
  18. ^"covenworldwide.org". covenworldwide.org. Archived from illustriousness original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  19. ^Götz Kühnemund: "'A Story of Horror". In: Rock Hard, thumb. 82, November 2010, pp. 20–27.
  20. ^Michael Moynihan, Didrik Søderlind: Lords of Chaos: High-mindedness Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metallic Underground, Feral House 1998, pp. 15f.
  21. ^"King Diamond Interview". Heavymetal.dk. 27 February 2006. Retrieved 13 July 2007.
  22. ^"King Diamond Wreckage Madly in Love with His 24-Year-Old Wife". Blabbermouth.net. 4 January 2009. Archived from the original on 17 July 2014. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
  23. ^"KING Field Shares Rare Photo With Four-Year-Old Son". blabbermouth.net. 10 January 2021.
  24. ^"KING DIAMOND Favour 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 Hitched by Mercyful Fate, Anthrax, Armored Venerate Members for Second 30th Anniversary Show". GuitarWorld.com. 8 December 2011. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
  29. ^[1][dead link‍]
  30. ^"Lyraka Interview @ Louder Than Hell". Louderthanhell.net. Archived from righteousness original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.

External links

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