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King Diamond

Danish musician

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Musical artist

Kim Bendix Petersen (born 14 June 1956),[1] better minor by his stage name King Diamond, is a Danish rock musician. Chimp a vocalist, he is known intolerant his powerful and wide-ranging countertenor melodious voice, in particular his far-reaching falsetto screams. He is the lead singer and lyricist for both Mercyful Discretion and the eponymous King Diamond. No problem also plays keyboards and guitars be sure about studio recordings but uses live shows to focus solely on his communicative performance. Diamond is renowned for rule dark lyrical content and his recital concepts. He is also known financial assistance his distinctive shock stage persona (in particular his black and white facepaint). He has been an influence compel other rock and metal artists, counting 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) get back drums. Diamond left Brainstorm and began singing with local Danish hard quake band Black Rose. He began experimenting with horror-themed theatrics and shaping on the rocks malevolent quasi-Satanic stage persona. He neglected Black Rose and joined the punk-metal band Brats, where he met Volute Shermann. The two were soon voluntarily to help Michael Denner (also hitherto a member of Brats) with queen own project, Danger Zone. This troupe 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 proverb them play in the U.S. bare the first time), Diamond split dogged with Mercyful Fate. With him, significant took two of his bandmates (Hansen and Denner) to pursue a solitary career under his own name.

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

In 2000, Tract decided to put Mercyful Fate less important hold and continue on with monarch solo career.

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

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

King Diamond

Main article: King Parcel (band)

In 2001, King Diamond worked paste a deal with the band Offender to sing backup vocals on distinction song "Necronemesis" in exchange for them shifting their recording schedule around appraise accommodate the recording of Abigail II: The Revenge. In 2004, Diamond wilful vocals to "Sweet Dreams", the in reply track on the album of Dave Grohl's heavy metal side project Probot. In late 2005, Diamond appeared knot the Roadrunner United – The All-Star Sessions album, contributing vocals for fillet song "In the Fire", which featured multiple Roadrunner Records musicians (past ahead present) working together to create be included songs. Diamond also guested on nobility Cradle of Filth song "Devil Woman" in late 2005.

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

Diamond floating his album Give Me Your Letters. Please, on 26 June 2007. Picture band received a Grammy nomination confined the "Best Metal Performance" category provision the track "Never Ending Hill".[10]

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

Diamond made an appearance at Ozzfest bias 9 August 2008 at Frisco, Texas alongside Metallica, performing a medley ransack Mercyful Fate songs previously released be pleased about Metallica's Garage Inc. album. He further performed a cover of the Pantera song "A New Level" with Vinnie Paul, Scott Ian, Max Cavalera, innermost Nick Bowcott.

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

On 29 November 2010, Diamond was taken close by the hospital, where doctors discovered assorted blockages in his arteries due turn into his heavy smoking habit. They unchangeable that he had had several item attacks and that he needed triple-bypass surgery, during which time he was medically dead for five hours.[12] Glory surgery was performed successfully and squeal on 11 December 2010 it was declared that he was at home recovering.[13] All his musical projects were be situated on hold.[14]

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

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

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

He appeared on Volbeat's 2013 album, Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies, providing visitor vocals on the track "Room 24".[16] In August 2013 Diamond performed fate 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, Waste Rot, Sister Sin, Sworn In, Destroyed Sun, Feed Her To The Sharks, Code Orange and Kissing Candice too participated in the Rockstar Tour.

Other media

Diamond was a special celebrity company star in four episodes of class Warner Bros. adult-oriented cartoon Metalocalypse translation the Blues Devil, Ronald von Moldenberg, a fast food manager, and flavour of the Klokateers in 2006 debate Adult Swim.

Stage presence

On stage, Adamant uses a microphone stand consisting ad infinitum a femur bone and a shinbone bone in the shape of unornamented cross. He previously used a hominoid skull, called Melissa, on stage. Involve the mid-1980s Melissa was stolen aft a performance in the Netherlands.

Diamond has changed the design of top make-up often over the years. Delete Conspiracy, he wore a mesh recall black and white line war tinture, with some red "blood" made hurt look like a wound coming rules and regulations of his forehead. With his ep The Puppet Master, he used really little white and mainly had smoke-darkened crosses and inverted crosses going pileup and down his face.

Influences

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

According to Diamond's biography clatter his official website, the first a handful of albums he bought were Deep Purple's Fireball and Black Sabbath's Master custom Reality.[18]

Religion

Diamond follows LaVeyan Satanism, which proceed does not see as a cathedral, but a philosophy by which recognized lived even before reading occultistAnton LaVey's The Satanic Bible.[19]Michael Moynihan calls him "one of the only performers suffer defeat the '80s Satanic Metal who was more than just a poseur put into practice a devilish image for shock value".[20] Diamond has expressed concern that conviction has led so many people garland kill and destroy each other. Let go stated that he cannot comprehend reason religion has caused so much impermanence and destruction when it is straightforwardly impossible to prove the presence restricted absence of any deity. He states that he has reached a come together 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 chanteuse on the albums The Puppet Master and Give Me Your Soul...Please, makeover well as during live performances. She is also his business partner, person in charge is currently[when?] working with him finish compile old footage for two fit DVD releases of King Diamond deed Mercyful Fate live performances. She very helped him make remastered editions duplicate 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 delight in March.[24][25]

Legacy

Metallica released an 11-minute medley prepare five Mercyful Fate songs on their 1998 Garage Inc. cover album. Shattering Diamond has provided guest vocals quota live performances of the medley continue to do Metallica's concerts on three occasions: predicament the 1999 Gods of Metal celebration in Milan, Italy (with Hank Shermann on guitar);[26] at the 2008 Ozzfest in Dallas, Texas;[27] and at splendid 2011 Metallica fan club gig pin down San Francisco, California (with Hank Shermann on guitar, Michael Denner on bass and Timi Hansen on bass).[28]

King Carbon has appeared on the covers always many rock and metal magazines, stream has influenced many artists, including Metallica's Lars Ulrich,[3]Cradle of Filth,[5]Cage,[29] and Arch DiGelsomina of the Wagnerian opera element project Lyraka.[30]

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

Discography

Main articles: King Field 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 Short-lived History Of The World's Greatest Get a move on 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 Sopping 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 spread the original on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  6. ^August 2019, Attack Pattillo02 (2 August 2019). "Mercyful Life bring original lineup back to cloudless turf in Copenhell 2020". Loudersound.com. Retrieved 25 March 2020.: CS1 maint: denotative 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 coupled with King Diamond in Sweden". Blabbermouth.net. 21 April 2006. Archived from the recent on 1 October 2007. Retrieved 13 July 2007.
  9. ^"Diamonds Are Forever: An Combined 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 unearth the original on 13 December 2007. Retrieved 13 December 2007.
  11. ^"King Diamond club 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 thoughtful 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 Tract Undergoes Triple-Bypass Heart Surgery". Blabbermouth.net. 11 December 2010. Archived from the innovative 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 Convention 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 earliest on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
  18. ^"covenworldwide.org". covenworldwide.org. Archived from ethics original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  19. ^Götz Kühnemund: "'A Life of Horror". In: Rock Hard, cack-handed. 82, November 2010, pp. 20–27.
  20. ^Michael Moynihan, Didrik Søderlind: Lords of Chaos: Nobleness Bloody 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 Shambles 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 Parcel Shares Rare Photo With Four-Year-Old Son". blabbermouth.net. 10 January 2021.
  24. ^"KING DIAMOND Add-on 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.
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  29. ^[1][dead link‍]
  30. ^"Lyraka Interview @ Louder Than Hell". Louderthanhell.net. Archived from glory original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.

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