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Copenhagen, Denmark (1985 – present)

King Diamond is the band that King Diamond (Kim Petersen) formed after the split up of Mercyful Fate - following the departure of Hank Sherman. He was joined by most members of the then defunct Mercyful Fate. The style has lost most of its proto-black metal style and become a heavy metal band. The Satanic focus was replaced by a focus on horror stories. Apart from two albums, each of the albums contained a story told throughout the songs; some stories span more than one album. Only Fatal Portrait and The Spider’s Lullaby deviate here, in that only half of the songs form a story while the other songs are independent. His extremely high falsetto vocal style is notable.

Current line-up
King Diamond - Vocals, Keyboards (1985-) (Black Rose (Dnk), Mercyful Fate, Danger Zone (Dnk), Brats)
Andy LaRocque aka Anders Allhage (1985-) - Guitars (ex-Death, ex-E.F. Band, Illwill)
Mike Wead aka Mikael Wikström (2000-) - Guitars (Mercyful Fate, Abstrakt Algebra, Memento Mori, Witch (Swe), ex-Candlemass, Maninnya Blade, Hexenhaus)
Hal Patino - Bass (1987-1989, 2000-) (Force of Evil, ex-Blakk Totem, ex-Maltese Falcon, ex-Palladion, ex-Doctor Butcher)
Matt Thompson - Drums (2000-) (Batcastle, ex-Autumn Silence, Shaolin Death Squad, ex-Michael Harris)

Guest vocals:
Livia Zita

Former/past member(s)
Guitars :
Michael Denner (1985-1987) (ex-Mercyful Fate, Force of Evil, Zoser Mez, Iron Space, Brats, Danger Zone (Dnk))
Pete Blakk aka Peter Jacobsson (1987-1990) (ex-Blakk Totem, ex-Geisha, ex-Trazer)
Glen Drover (1998-2000) (Eidolon, Megadeth)
Michael Moon aka Mikael Myllynen (1987 tour) (ex-Madison)
Herb Simonsen (1995-1998)

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Thrashhard wrote:
yesterday evening

Halloween has some of the best drumming ever, Mikkey Dee is so underrated even with Motorhead

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Potilass wrote:
yesterday afternoon

Grandma, take a look. What do you think of the house and the silvery moon? We are going to repaint the front door soon... Wait till you see your room up in the attic. Prepared just like you said, without a bed. You will find your rocking chair and the tea pot that missy found.

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rexkingdiamond2 wrote:
yesterday morning

kickass band

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murthia wrote:
Sunday morning

more scary without corpse paint....jk...

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Czajkus wrote:
Saturday evening

greatest of all time!

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GroupSupport wrote:
last week

can't believe the dog picture isn't official anymore.

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MaidenPriest420 wrote:
last week

kvlt!

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lulled wrote:
last week

This dog-licking picture is just terrible.

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Zerwas wrote:
last week

Which of this two evil guys is the trve King?

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metal_gimp wrote:
9 days ago

yeah, its definitely my favourite. ''Them'' was a bit of a let-down afterwards, but it has grown on me since then. Conspiracy is awesome though, probably my 2nd favourite after Abigail. Still a lot of his album left to hear though; Voodoo, House of God etc

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finekilla wrote:
10 days ago

Abigail is so good. I'm finding it difficult to find another record of his to match its greatness.

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TheTrueSeker wrote:
12 days ago

18 IS ACTUALLY 9

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Deathexplosion wrote:
13 days ago

I'LL HAVE A WHOPPERRRRRRRRRRRRRR WITH THE PICKLESSSSSS AND APPLE PIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.....i'll take it to go.GRANDMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Skullsmasher wrote:
13 days ago

The lack of "GRANDMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" in this shout box is appalling, so, GRANDMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

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Irenicus_ wrote:
14 days ago

"Idiot -.- " everybody knows you are just by looking at your profile, but why do you have to tell us here?

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COBRARocky wrote:
15 days ago

Nice to see hes getting a bit more attention...Though this kind of kills the whole cult feel of his fanbase

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MaidenSlayer wrote:
15 days ago

King Diamond should be in Iron Maiden.

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igorthe_killers wrote:
16 days ago

Idiot -.-

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miqmiranda wrote:
16 days ago

GREAT GUY!!!!!!

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lulled wrote:
18 days ago

OK, I got that fucking awesome picture back.

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