Fatal Portrait CD
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KING DIAMOND

Fatal Portrait CD

Artist: KING DIAMOND
Label: Roadrunner

Release Year: 1997
Artist Origin: DEN
Style: menacing demonic speed heavy metal

after an untimely demise of Mercyful Fate in mid eighties, Kim Petersen has made a damn bald decision to establish a new group named after his stage name, yet no less important was a devilish pact made between him and genius guitar player Andy LaRocque: fantastic premier solo effort [1986] by the mighty King is an ultimate classic - a transitional album, still rooted in the satanically-bent heavy metal of the former band, but already showing signs of the theatrical and conceptual elements of later horror stories, while vocal styles of Diamond is spread across ever expanding layers of harmony lines, where Mikkey Dee [ex.Motorhead] plays drums, and Michael Denner takes the role of another guitarist; recent re-issue comes with a remastered sound plus No Presents for Christmas and The Lake tracks from early 1985-1986 EPs as bonus