Calling all KING DIAMOND fans...

pm me about this.......you'd be surprised what i have that is Diamond related.

Abigail --- yeah that would do it for me. LOL

His solo stuff is hit and miss with me. I prefer stuff from Fatal Portrait, Abigail, Them and Conspiracy.

Songs guys...I need songs that you would dig on a comp. Just a few titles of fave tracks. I already have an MF comp that I like quite a bit, and I'd like more of that KD sound from his solo stuff, but I'm fairly unfamiliar with most of it.

Well you must end your compilation with "Black Horsemen" it is the best song to end any album bar none...IMO.

Other fun tracks:

Halloween
Charon
The Family Ghost
Sleepless Nights

here ya go troggy.......a KD vid for ya.....from the album Abigail...it's called.......
the family ghost (promo video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpX-QdG3hgU

and from "Them"
Welcome home (promo video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8g6tGpxbi0

and from Conspiracy.......
SLEEPLESS NIGHT (LIVE!!! in Brazil 1996)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDMACF1eDCo

Sleepless nights (promo video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmJixqlOzZ4

and some other king related videos........
Diamond w/out his makeup (in Danish, debating christianity/satanism)
part one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h18jOan-Mus
part two https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFpBAmsfNZk
Roadrunner united video IN THE FIRE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvkVJeEderk

King looks so normal with no makeup.

i know, he has that molester mustache which I could not help laughing at evertime he had a close up LOL

the new KD album came out today it's called "Give me your soul...please"

kinda reminds me of a mixture of the puppet master, abigail 2 and house of god, it is nowhere near a great album and the story isn't as good as it could have been.

Hey Poop, how's them KD copies coming? And might the new one be included with them as well?

going slowly, i need to run to best buy in the morning and replace the router i bought with one that works LOL

I also need to get blank cd's and dvd-r's so i can burn mass amounts of metal ot my archives.

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By Ole Bang

June 26th, 2007

Hi all.

Most regretfully I have to inform you that the King Diamond Europe tour will have to be postponed.



King has over the past month and a half, been suffering from severe
pain in his back, and following several visits to doctors, specialists
and most recently an MRI-scan; he has been diagnosed a herniated disc
in the spine, and prescribed absolute rest for several months.



Failure to follow the doctors orders, will cause irreparable damage to
his spine, and for obvious reasons there is no way he can go on tour
and perform, with all the travel and physical activities this would
include.



We expect King to recover fully after a prolonged period of rest, and
we are determined to re-schedule the tour dates, not cancel the tour.

Further details of the re-schedule of the Europe tour will be given here as soon as possible.



Since we will need some time to reschedule, the ticket’s already purchased will be refunded the way this is usually done.

Don’t rush the ticket issuer right away; give it a few days – they only
got this information today – some might not know till tomorrow !



The US-tour will not be affected by this. All should be well by early 2008.



One way or another you will soon have a couple of words from King directly.

He is currently completing interviews, but at a much slower pace than
normally, but he will of course make time for you here at the Coven.



Repeat visits to the coven worldwide page for accurate and up to date information.

Best regards

Ole Bang

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This is King Diamond here.

I'm writing under Livia's username for now.

Hail
to all of you. I've been checking up on the postings to get a feel for
what all of you think about the brand new album, and I'm really glad to
see that all the hard work was not in vain. It's such a great kick in
the ass to see that by far the majority here has the same opinion about
the album as we in the band have ourselves.
Of course it's never
cool to find out that not everyone of our fans enjoy what we feel is
our strongest ever, but I guess it's extremely hard to please
everybody's taste. So for those of you who have stated disappointment,
maybe the next album will give you more of the entertainment style that
you're after if you hang around 'till then.

I know we'll be
talking Sunday, but I just saw a couple of posting today that really
bothered me because they were quite negative and totally untrue, the
kind of posting that start bad rumours:

One posting stated that
Livia and I sing a lot simultaneously on the new album, and that she
sings all the high parts because my voice can't do what it used to do.
ANSWER:
First of all there is not one single spot on this new album where Livia
and I sing at the same time, whether in harmony or not, unlike what we
did on The Puppet Master album.
For those of you who are
interested in who is singing what on the new album, it's quite simple
if you have the lyrics. Everything in quotation marks is Livia's voice
and Livia's voice only. Everything that is not in quotation marks is
me. The amount Livia sings on this album is about the same as on The
Puppet Master, but it is spaced out very differently as the lyrics will
clearly show you. Livia has big blocks in the intro and on Moving On.
Apart from that, Livia mostly does two-three lines in the songs she's
singing on, and about half the songs I sing completely alone.
Hope this clarifies who sings what.
I would like to state once and for all that the strength of my voice has never been better, and my range has never been higher.

Regarding the strength, let me tell you how my vocals were recorded:
Over
a three week period I sang in the studio Monday and Tuesday 6 1/2 hours
straight each day, only interrupted by fetching a cup of coffee every
hour or so. Wednesday was used to rest the voice, and then Thursday and
Friday I sang again for approximately 6 1/2 hours each day straight.
First Saturday was used to write the lyrics for the song "The Girl In
The Bloody Dress", which might seem quick, but keep in mind that most
of the lyric was already there in all my notes. First Sunday was rest.
Second week was identical to the first week with the exception of writing the lyrics to "Moving On".
Third week, same schedule, but no lyrics to write.

Regarding the range of my voice:
I
can reach higher with better control than ever before. It might not be
that noticeable since some of the highest falsettos often are merely a
part of an 8 voice 3-4 harmony choir part.
One thing that I kind
of knew when Andy and I made the decision to go a specific way with the
sound during the mixing, was that my voice would sound much more
natural and much more detailed than before, thereby not losing all the
emotions and special moods that the vocals were done in. In the past we
used to follow normal standard procedures which means using lots of
compression on everything which is a thing that can be good for some
kinds of music, but for music that has so many different moods and
sound that must be fitted into the sound picture (drums, bass, two to
four rythm guitars, guitar solos, lead vox and lead double vox plus 8
backing vocals plus Livia's vox plus the occasional violins, cellos,
harpsichord, organ/church organ), as we have, compression can really
work against you because it has a tendency to wash things out and
thereby losing detail and clarity. We chose to go with way less
compression than is standard.
Some of this shit I'm writing now
might not make too much sense unless you are familiar with recording
procedures but to try and make a long story short, the difference
between the overall sound of everything on this new album, compared to
earlier albums, is that everything we recorded can be heard. Nothing
got washed away. As you might have noticed, everything Hal does on his
bass can be heard, unlike most albums that are produced today.
Regarding
the vocals: When it comes to the falsetto vocals, they are not as
piercing in sound as they often have been before for the exact reasons
I stated earlier with the compression, but even more so because we left
my vocals completely alone, meaning that no equalization was used on my
vocals this time. They are one hundred percent natural sounding unlike
earlier where the standard often was to cut away low sound frequencies
to clear up the voice because of all the compression and then add some
mid-high frequencies again for the same reason to bring back some of
the lost clarity due to the excessive use of compression. This
procedure often resulted in losing the emotions that were originally in
the recorded vocals, and that the falsettos often became unnaturally
high pitched and almost irritating to even my ears.
There are in
fact more and higher falsettos on this album than ever before
(especially in the backing vocals), but because of the above, they
might not seem as penetrating but actually more pleasing to the ear, I
think. I guess it's a matter of taste, but it sure brings out a lot
more of the orginal emotions in the voice.
I hope some of this made sense. It's really hard to explain in writing.

WHY DO I HOLD MATT BACK? I DON'T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Again,
there are things being posted which is nothing more than guessing
without any reality to back it up. Of course none of you know how
things work within the band whether we are recording, on tour, or
whatever. But I guess this is a good way to inform you.
Regarding
drums: The procedure is that Matt gets the raw demos and usually works
on the songs for months before we go into the studio. He usually has at
least 4-5 full different versions of drumming for each song. When
recording a song, Matt will usually warm up while playing all his
different versions which we already at that point start recording. Matt
will come into the control room where Andy and I, but mostly me and
then Matt will listen through all his different suggestions. About 90%
of the drumming that you hear on a song is a mix of all of Matt's
different suggestions plus some of my suggestions and occasionally
Andy's, and I can assure you that some of the suggestions I have are
not simple. There are lots of examples on this album if you really pay
attention. Just as a tiny example of what might pass right by you if
you don't pay attention is for instance the kick drum pattern in the
"sneaky" parts of "The Girl In The Bloody Dress". You try figure that
pattern out. I must say that to my amazement, Matt picked it out
perfect in less than 2 minutes. After Matt heard the final mixes, he
called me and commented the following "I can't believe you let me get
away with this!" I replied "Get away with what? It's never a question
of getting away with anything and you know how much I enjoy when you
come up with some of these 'out there ideas' that I would never have
imagined would enhance a certain riff or add to the song as a whole."
Further, in King Diamond we always test any idea no matter how crazy it
might seem before we decide if it works for a song or not.
There's
absolutely no holding anybody back, and I can guarantee all of you out
there that everybody in the band has the attitude that we all play our
different parts for the good of the songs and not with the attitude of
musicians with big egos who just want to show off regardless of whether
what they do fits a certain song or not. There are and have always been
plenty of space for everyone to show what they can do without
jeopardizing the flow of a song.
It's very much the same procedure
when it comes to Hal's bass parts. I'm very pleased that what he does
on this album is so easy to hear because he literally blows me away
with all the stuff he brought to this album. I do have a little finger
in some of the bass parts but for the majority it is Hal and Hal's
ideas you hear. Hal's quote "these are the best bass lines I've ever
put down on a record and you can actually hear them too". I agree a
million percent. A quote from Andy "I don't think I have composed solos
of this quality since 'The Eye'". Again, I totally agree. A quote from
Mike "I have never been so inspired to compose solos as I am for this
new album." Mike, you outdid yourself in my opinion. Your solos fucking
rock!!! You know how I told you, that you made the hair stand on my
arms when I heard your revised solo for "Shapes Of Black". Your first
solo for that song was certainly not bad but it didn't quite bring the
right mood to that piece, and one phone call later. King: "Could you
try and do a second version where you construct your solo more around
the keyboard theme that goes in the background than the actual front
rythm guitars?" You sent back something that was way beyond what I had
expected and hit the nail so fucking right on the head.
The way we
all worked together at any stage of the making of this new album is by
far the best I have ever experienced. Everybody was on the same page
the whole way. I already told you band guys this personally but this is
more for all of you here on the website.
One thing that not many of
you probably think about, is the fact that Andy at this point in time
has completely incorporated my technique of playing guitar into his own
technique, and on this album it has been extremely gratifying for me to
hear the songs I wrote played a hundred percent the way they were
intended.
For Livia I think she did one hell of a job portraying the character of "The Little Girl In The Bloody Dress".

Time
to go rest my back but before I fumble my way back into by bedroom with
all the shapes of black waiting on my bed I would like to say on behalf
of everyone in the band, that we sincerely feel that this is our best
performance ever.
Some will hopefully agree, others might not agree,
but at least give the album more than just one listen in the car cause
that way you are going to miss half of what's in there. I personally
feel that this album is one that needs a few more than just 3 listens
before you really start to find all the stuff that was put into it.

It's good nightmare time for me now, hope to talk to some of you on Sunday.

Stay Heavy,

King.