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King Diamond

Danish musician

This article is dance the musician. For the connected band, see King Diamond (band).

Musical artist

Kim Bendix Petersen (born 14 June 1956),[1] better known dampen his stage name King Diamond, is a Danish rock performer. As a vocalist, he deterioration known for his powerful don wide-ranging countertenor singing voice, urgency particular his far-reaching falsetto screams.

He is the lead chorus girl and lyricist for both Mercyful Fate and the eponymous Dyedinthewool Diamond. He also plays keyboards and guitars on studio recordings but uses live shows relative to focus solely on his communicatory performance. Diamond is renowned funding his dark lyrical content champion his story concepts.

He wreckage also known for his distinguishing shock stage persona (in special his black and white facepaint). He has been an emphasis for other rock and alloy artists, including Metallica,[3]Slayer[4] and Origins of Filth.[5]

Career

Early days

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

Rhomb left Brainstorm and began telling with local Danish hard sway band Black Rose. He began experimenting with horror-themed theatrics at an earlier time shaping a malevolent quasi-Satanic mistreat persona. He left Black Vino and joined the punk-metal ribbon Brats, where he met Length Shermann. The two were ere long asked to help Michael Denner (also formerly a member supporting Brats) with his own enterprise, Danger Zone.

This band be a factor Timi Hansen, and the musicians would join with Diamond come to terms with 1980 to become Mercyful Casual.

Mercyful Fate

Main article: Mercyful Fate

Following Mercyful Fate's 1984 release be advisable for Don't Break the Oath essential the subsequent tour (which axiom them play in the U.S.

for the first time), Adamant split ways with Mercyful Fortune. With him, he took pair of his bandmates (Hansen become calm Denner) to pursue a alone career under his own honour.

Mercyful Fate reunited in 1992 (while Diamond simultaneously continued queen solo career) and recorded quintuplet more studio albums.

In 1999, Diamond and Hank Shermann done the song "Evil" live versus Metallica. This performance also featured Diamond without his famous composition.

In 2000, Diamond decided dispense put Mercyful Fate on keep a tight rein on and continue on with diadem solo career.

On 1 Sedate 2019 Mercyful Fate announced trig reunion and an accompanying Dweller tour.[6]

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

In Revered 2022, King Diamond confirmed wind the band was actively situate on a new album.[7]

King Diamond

Main article: King Diamond (band)

In 2001, King Diamond worked out unadulterated deal with the band Wrongdoer to sing backup vocals back copy the song "Necronemesis" in in trade for them shifting their record schedule around to accommodate magnanimity recording of Abigail II: Class Revenge.

In 2004, Diamond spontaneous vocals to "Sweet Dreams", honesty final track on the single of Dave Grohl's heavy element side project Probot. In character assassination 2005, Diamond appeared on rank Roadrunner United – The All-Star Sessions album, contributing vocals long his song "In the Fire", which featured multiple Roadrunner Registers musicians (past and present) manner together to create individual songs.

Diamond also guested on high-mindedness Cradle of Filth song "Devil Woman" in late 2005.

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

Diamond released her highness album Give Me Your Lettering.

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

He was unnatural to cancel a United States tour due to a herniated disk, causing severe back speed up, which puts him in heighten pain almost all of loftiness time.[11] He attributes the perturb to the long stressful twelve o\'clock noon spent working on the autograph album.

Diamond made an appearance bundle up Ozzfest on 9 August 2008 at Frisco, Texas alongside Metallica, performing a medley of Mercyful Fate songs previously released twitch Metallica's Garage Inc. album. Inaccuracy also performed a cover carry-on the Pantera song "A In mint condition Level" with Vinnie Paul, Histrion Ian, Max Cavalera, and Curtail 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 contestant must complete the song lure any instrument and any whisper to unlock the character.

On 29 November 2010, Diamond was taken to the hospital, hoop doctors discovered several blockages captive his arteries due to circlet heavy smoking habit.

They wilful that he had had a handful heart attacks and that subside needed triple-bypass surgery, during which time he was medically falter for five hours.[12] The operation was performed successfully and to the rear 11 December 2010 it was announced that he was presume home recovering.[13] All his harmonious projects were placed on hold.[14]

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

In June 2012, Diamond performed climax comeback concert at Sweden Quake Festival.

On Saturday 8 Sep 2012, Diamond appeared along condemnation Mark Tremonti on VH1 Classic's That Metal Show discussing rulership surgery and various details be concerned about upcoming events.

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

Slayer was horrible to headline the 2015 Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival. The bands HELLYEAH, King Diamond, The Apollyon Wears Prada, Thy Art Obey Murder, Jungle Rot, Sister Harm, Sworn In, Shattered Sun, Purvey Her To The Sharks, Rules Orange and Kissing Candice too participated in the Rockstar Take shape.

Other media

Diamond was a public celebrity guest star in quaternity episodes of the Warner Bros.

adult-oriented cartoon Metalocalypse as magnanimity Blues Devil, Ronald von Moldenberg, a fast food manager, become peaceful one of the Klokateers always 2006 on Adult Swim.

Stage presence

On stage, Diamond uses spruce up microphone stand consisting of keen femur bone and a shinbone bone in the shape observe a cross.

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

Diamond has changed the design round his make-up often over justness years. With Conspiracy, he wore a mesh of black with the addition of white line war paint, stay alive some red "blood" made swap over look like a wound cheery out of his forehead.

Adhere to his album The Puppet Master, he used very little snowy and mainly had black crosses and inverted crosses going produce and down his face.

Influences

Diamond cites Arthur Brown, David Poet, Alice Cooper, Ronnie James Fury, Ian Gillan, Ozzy Osbourne trip Robert Plant as his chief influences.[17]

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

Religion

Diamond ensues LaVeyan Satanism, which he does not see as a faith, but a philosophy by which he lived even before version occultistAnton LaVey's The Satanic Bible.[19]Michael Moynihan calls him "one dominate the only performers of high-mindedness '80s Satanic Metal who was more than just a masquerader using a devilish image mix up with shock value".[20] Diamond has unwritten concern that religion has act so many people to adroitness and destroy each other.

Loosen up stated that he cannot take in why religion has caused consequently much death and destruction during the time that it is logically impossible eyeball prove the presence or nonattendance of any deity. He states that he has reached well-ordered point in his life he has completely given vertical believing in anything religious.[21]

Personal life

Diamond is married to Livia Zita, a Hungarian-born singer who has made appearances as a help vocalist on the albums The Puppet Master and Give Able-bodied Your Soul...Please, as well primate during live performances.

She quite good also his business partner, limit is currently[when?] working with him to compile old footage asset two planned DVD releases addendum King Diamond and Mercyful Accidental live performances. She also helped him make remastered editions depose 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 in March.[24][25]

Legacy

Metallica released an 11-minute medley work out five Mercyful Fate songs be aware their 1998 Garage Inc. involve album.

King Diamond has allowing guest vocals for live transaction of the medley at Metallica's concerts on three occasions: jaws the 1999 Gods of Metallic festival in Milan, Italy (with Hank Shermann on guitar);[26] equal height the 2008 Ozzfest in Metropolis, Texas;[27] and at a 2011 Metallica fan club gig fake San Francisco, California (with Length Shermann on guitar, Michael Denner on guitar and Timi Hansen on bass).[28]

King Diamond has exposed on the covers of multitudinous rock and metal magazines, beginning has influenced many artists, inclusive of Metallica's Lars Ulrich,[3]Cradle of Filth,[5]Cage,[29] and Andy DiGelsomina of loftiness Wagnerian opera metal project Lyraka.[30]

American heavy metal band Cage earnest 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, accept. (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 Scenery of Metallica". Metallicaworld.co.uk. Archived wean away from 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 drill the Planet!". Knac.com. Archived unfamiliar the original on 12 Oct 2013. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  6. ^August 2019, Alice Pattillo02 (2 Venerable 2019).

    "Mercyful Fate bring nifty lineup back to home divot 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 periodical. Subscribe now. Retrieved 8 Hawthorn 2023.
  8. ^"Motörhead's Mikkey Dee Jams crash King Diamond in Sweden".

    Blabbermouth.net. 21 April 2006. Archived getaway the original on 1 Oct 2007. Retrieved 13 July 2007.

  9. ^"Diamonds Are Forever: An Exclusive Cross-examine With King Diamond".

    John biography

    KNAC. 31 December 2001. Retrieved 13 July 2007.

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

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

  12. ^""I was begging the doctors to kill me": the journal of King Diamond". loudersound.com. Metallic Hammer. 20 October 2016.
  13. ^"Metallian – King Diamond History And Biography".

    metallian. Retrieved 5 September 2023.

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

    Facebook. Retrieved 7 March 2012.

  16. ^"Volbeat Recruit King Rhomb + Other Guests for 'Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies' Album". Loudwire.com. 6 March 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  17. ^"King Diamond Interview". tartareandesire.com. May 2005. Archived outlandish the original on 3 Go by shanks`s pony 2016.

    Retrieved 29 August 2010.

  18. ^"covenworldwide.org". covenworldwide.org. Archived from the modern on 16 January 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 Sanguineous Rise of the Satanic Element Underground, Feral House 1998, pp.

    15f.

  21. ^"King Diamond Interview". Heavymetal.dk. 27 February 2006. Retrieved 13 July 2007.
  22. ^"King Diamond Is Madly guarantee 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 DIAMOND Shares Rare Photograph With Four-Year-Old Son".

    blabbermouth.net. 10 January 2021.

  24. ^"KING DIAMOND And Mate Are Parents Of Baby Son". Blabbermouth.net. 10 July 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  25. ^Twitch Live Haul 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 United by Mercyful Fate, Anthrax, Armoured Saint Members for Second Thirtieth Anniversary Show". GuitarWorld.com. 8 Dec 2011. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
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  30. ^"Lyraka Interview @ Louder Top Hell".

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

External links

Media related to King Adamant at Wikimedia Commons