King Diamond

Kim Bendix Petersen, alias King Diamond, began a solo career after the breakup of the Mercyful Fate in the mid-1980s. Renowned for his vocal performances (screaming, screaming, narration, theatrical voices), he still remains one of the darkest singers in the world. Accompanied by Michael Denner, Timi Hansen (also from Mercyful Fate), Andy Larocque (future Death), and Mikkey Dee (future Motörhead), he released his first album in 1986: Fatal Portrait. His successor came the following year: Abigail , which marked a slight evolution towards a slightly more theatrical style, reinforced by the different tones of the singer. King Diamond tells for the first time one of his horrific stories on an album (a concept he repeated many times); in this case a woman haunted by the ghost of a stillborn child. Michael Denner and Timi Hansen will leave the King shortly after the release of the album, replaced respectively by Pete Blakk and Hal Patino. Petersen recorded Them in 1988, then Conspiracy in 1989. The Eye continued the Danish work and appeared in 1990, it was during his recording that Snowy Shaw and Pete Blakk worked on the compositions, they were previously almost all made by Andy Larocque and King Diamond. This album marks the end of the collaboration with Roadrunner Records. The band took a five-year pose, during which King Diamond took advantage of it to return to Mercyful Fate, which had been reformed, he returned with The Spider的s Lullabye in 1995 and a brand new line-up, the albums sequenced, The Graveyard in 1996, Voodoo in 1998, House of God in 2000, Abigail II: The Revenge in 2002, The Puppet Master in 2003 and finally Give Me Your Soul... Please in 2007. At the end of 2015 the King announced his participation in the Hellfest 2016 where he would play Abigail in full, he would also be likely to start composing a new album during the same year.
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