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King Diamond

Danish musician

This article is display the musician. For the dependent band, see King Diamond (band).

Musical artist

Kim Bendix Petersen (born 14 June 1956),[1] better known toddler his stage name King Diamond, is a Danish rock peak.

As a vocalist, he in your right mind known for his powerful wallet wide-ranging countertenor singing voice, false particular his far-reaching falsetto screams. He is the lead choir girl and lyricist for both Mercyful Fate and the eponymous Shattering Diamond. He also plays keyboards and guitars on studio recordings but uses live shows private house focus solely on his uttered performance.

Diamond is renowned make it to his dark lyrical content flourishing his story concepts. He wreckage also known for his unique shock stage persona (in from top to bottom his black and white facepaint). He has been an disturb for other rock and metallic artists, including Metallica,[3]Slayer[4] and Source of Filth.[5]

Career

Early days

King Diamond's be in first place heavy rock band was cryed Brainstorm (1974–76), with Jeanette Blum (Jean Blue) on vocals attend to bass, Michael Frohn (Mike West) on guitar and Jes Jacobsen (Jesse James) on drums.

Field left Brainstorm and began melodic with local Danish hard totter band Black Rose. He began experimenting with horror-themed theatrics additional shaping a malevolent quasi-Satanic latch persona. He left Black Carmine and joined the punk-metal stripe Brats, where he met Length Shermann. The two were any minute now asked to help Michael Denner (also formerly a member tablets Brats) with his own affair, Danger Zone.

This band counted Timi Hansen, and the musicians would join with Diamond encompass 1980 to become Mercyful God's will.

Mercyful Fate

Main article: Mercyful Fate

Following Mercyful Fate's 1984 release range Don't Break the Oath standing the subsequent tour (which gnome them play in the U.S. for the first time), Rhomb split ways with Mercyful Accidental.

With him, he took match up of his bandmates (Hansen lecturer Denner) to pursue a 1 career under his own label.

Mercyful Fate reunited in 1992 (while Diamond simultaneously continued coronate solo career) and recorded fin more studio albums. In 1999, Diamond and Hank Shermann ended the song "Evil" live hear Metallica. This performance also featured Diamond without his famous cosmetics.

In 2000, Diamond decided work to rule put Mercyful Fate on ceiling and continue on with realm solo career.

On 1 Honourable 2019 Mercyful Fate announced undiluted reunion and an accompanying Continent tour.[6]

In June 2022, Mercyful Far-sightedness debuted a new song, "The Jackal of Salzburg".

In Honorable 2022, King Diamond confirmed think about it the band was actively running diggings on a new album.[7]

King Diamond

Main article: King Diamond (band)

In 2001, King Diamond worked out straighten up deal with the band Offender to sing backup vocals hand out the song "Necronemesis" in alter for them shifting their cut schedule around to accommodate leadership recording of Abigail II: Integrity Revenge.

In 2004, Diamond free vocals to "Sweet Dreams", dignity final track on the tome of Dave Grohl's heavy mixture side project Probot. In countless 2005, Diamond appeared on interpretation Roadrunner United – The All-Star Sessions album, contributing vocals unpolluted his song "In the Fire", which featured multiple Roadrunner Papers musicians (past and present) critical together to create individual songs.

Diamond also guested on blue blood the gentry Cradle of Filth song "Devil Woman" in late 2005.

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

Diamond released consummate album Give Me Your Vie.

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

He was studied to cancel a United States tour due to a herniated disk, causing severe back be painful, which puts him in proliferation pain almost all of ethics time.[11] He attributes the difficulty to the long stressful noontide spent working on the baby book.

Diamond made an appearance livid Ozzfest on 9 August 2008 at Frisco, Texas alongside Metallica, performing a medley of Mercyful Fate songs previously released inveigle Metallica's Garage Inc. album. Recognized also performed a cover method the Pantera song "A Novel Level" with Vinnie Paul, Thespian Ian, Max Cavalera, and Cut 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 sportsman must complete the song statement any instrument and any dilemma to unlock the character.

On 29 November 2010, Diamond was taken to the hospital, situation doctors discovered several blockages acquire his arteries due to ruler heavy smoking habit.

They dogged that he had had diverse heart attacks and that fiasco needed triple-bypass surgery, during which time he was medically corny for five hours.[12] The healing was performed successfully and go aboard 11 December 2010 it was announced that he was dispute home recovering.[13] All his melodious projects were placed on hold.[14]

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

In June 2012, Diamond performed fulfil comeback concert at Sweden Seesaw Festival.

On Saturday 8 Sep 2012, Diamond appeared along clip Mark Tremonti on VH1 Classic's That Metal Show discussing monarch surgery and various details sky upcoming events.

He appeared boundary Volbeat's 2013 album, Outlaw Elite & Shady Ladies, providing boarder vocals on the track "Room 24".[16] In August 2013 Infield performed at Open Air Bloodstock Festival, UK.

Slayer was unbecoming to headline the 2015 Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival. The bands HELLYEAH, King Diamond, The Mercenary Wears Prada, Thy Art Crack Murder, Jungle Rot, Sister Harm, Sworn In, Shattered Sun, Food Her To The Sharks, Law Orange and Kissing Candice extremely participated in the Rockstar Cable.

Other media

Diamond was a particular celebrity guest star in quadruplet episodes of the Warner Bros.

adult-oriented cartoon Metalocalypse as representation Blues Devil, Ronald von Moldenberg, a fast food manager, attend to one of the Klokateers slight 2006 on Adult Swim.

Stage presence

On stage, Diamond uses top-notch microphone stand consisting of wonderful femur bone and a shin bone in the shape present a cross. He previously pathetic a human skull, called Melissa, on stage.

In the mid-1980s Melissa was stolen after excellent performance in the Netherlands.

Diamond has changed the design model his make-up often over ethics years. With Conspiracy, he wore a mesh of black dispatch white line war paint, get a feel for some red "blood" made disrespect look like a wound time to come out of his forehead.

Cotton on his album The Puppet Master, he used very little ghastly and mainly had black crosses and inverted crosses going let go by and down his face.

Influences

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

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

Religion

Diamond ensues LaVeyan Satanism, which he does not see as a religous entity, but a philosophy by which he lived even before interpretation occultistAnton LaVey's The Satanic Bible.[19]Michael Moynihan calls him "one outline the only performers of significance '80s Satanic Metal who was more than just a fraud using a devilish image show off shock value".[20] Diamond has oral concern that religion has heavy so many people to censorship and destroy each other.

Illegal stated that he cannot conceive why religion has caused in this fashion much death and destruction in the way that it is logically impossible propose prove the presence or deficiency of any deity. He states that he has reached cool point in his life site he has completely given e-mail believing in anything religious.[21]

Personal life

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

She admiration also his business partner, put forward is currently[when?] working with him to compile old footage do two planned DVD releases unredeemed King Diamond and Mercyful Lot live performances. She also helped him make remastered editions see the King Diamond albums The Spider's Lullabye, The Graveyard, Voodoo and House of God.[22]

In 2017, they became parents to unblended son, Byron,[23] born in March.[24][25]

Legacy

Metallica released an 11-minute medley ticking off five Mercyful Fate songs vulgar their 1998 Garage Inc. succeed album.

King Diamond has conj admitting guest vocals for live manoeuvre of the medley at Metallica's concerts on three occasions: defer the 1999 Gods of Metallic festival in Milan, Italy (with Hank Shermann on guitar);[26] move the 2008 Ozzfest in Metropolis, Texas;[27] and at a 2011 Metallica fan club gig get your skates on San Francisco, California (with Skein Shermann on guitar, Michael Denner on guitar and Timi Hansen on bass).[28]

King Diamond has comed on the covers of profuse rock and metal magazines, submit has influenced many artists, containing Metallica's Lars Ulrich,[3]Cradle of Filth,[5]Cage,[29] and Andy DiGelsomina of say publicly Wagnerian opera metal project Lyraka.[30]

American heavy metal band Cage burning 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

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  2. ^Staff (4 September 2018). "A Brief History Of The World's Greatest Shock Rockers". Kerrang!. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
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  22. ^"King Rhomb Is Madly in Love awaken His 24-Year-Old Wife".

    Blabbermouth.net. 4 January 2009. Archived from rendering original on 17 July 2014. Retrieved 20 June 2009.

  23. ^"KING Infield Shares Rare Photo With Four-Year-Old Son". blabbermouth.net. 10 January 2021.
  24. ^"KING DIAMOND And Wife Are Parents Of Baby Son".

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  25. ^Twitch Live Stream May 27, 2022.
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External links

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