KING DIAMOND

Release Year: 2020
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 German vinyl replica edition comes in hardcover gatefold digisleeve format on black polycarbonate disk with a lyric insert that folds out into a mini poster