King Diamond
Background information
Birth name	Kim Bendix Petersen
Born	14 June 1956 (1956-06-14) (age 51) Copenhagen, Denmark
Genre(s)	Heavy metal
Occupation(s)	Singer, Musician, Songwriter
Instrument(s)	Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
Label(s)	Roadrunner, Metal Blade
Associated acts	King Diamond, Mercyful Fate, Black Rose, Brats
Website	Official Website

King Diamond (born Kim Bendix Petersen, June 14, 1956, Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Grammy Award nominated heavy metal musician known for his striking face painted image. Events 1276 - While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Copenhagen (ˌkəʊpənˈheɪgən ˌkəʊpənˈhɑːgən ˈkəʊpənˌheɪgən ˈkəʊpənˌhɑːgən kʰøb̥ənˈhɑʊ̯ˀn kʰøb̥m̩ˈhɑʊ̯ˀn is the capital and largest city The Kingdom of Denmark ( ˈd̥ænmɑɡ̊ (archaic ˈd̥anmɑːɡ̊ commonly known as Denmark, is a country in the Scandinavian region of northern Europe A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other A musician is a person who plays or writes Music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music An instrumentalist plays a A songwriter is someone who writes the Lyrics to songs the Musical composition (chords or Melody to songs or both A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose of making Music. The guitar is a Musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a Musical keyboard. In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Roadrunner Records (Roadrunner Music Group BV is a Record label that concentrates on heavy metal bands Artists Current artists 3 The Absence Aeon A Love Ends Suicide(Now Let's Fighting King Diamond is the heavy metal band that King Diamond formed after the split up of his First Wave of Black metal band Mercyful Fate. Mercyful Fate is an influential Danish heavy metal band often cited among the influences in the Black metal, Thrash metal, Power metal Black Rose was a Danish Hard rock / heavy metal band with King Diamond on vocals Brats was a Danish ( Copenhagen) band formed in 1977 as a punk band but split up in 1979, later reforming as a heavy metal band with Events 1276 - While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Copenhagen (ˌkəʊpənˈheɪgən ˌkəʊpənˈhɑːgən ˈkəʊpənˌheɪgən ˈkəʊpənˌhɑːgən kʰøb̥ənˈhɑʊ̯ˀn kʰøb̥m̩ˈhɑʊ̯ˀn is the capital and largest city The Kingdom of Denmark ( ˈd̥ænmɑɡ̊ (archaic ˈd̥anmɑːɡ̊ commonly known as Denmark, is a country in the Scandinavian region of northern Europe The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards)—or Grammys —are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences A musician is a person who plays or writes Music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music An instrumentalist plays a As a vocalist, he is known for his use of falsetto, mixed with mid-range vocals in most of his music. The term falsetto (Italian diminutive of falso, false refers to the Vocal register occupying the frequency range just above the Modal voice register and As the frontman for both Mercyful Fate and the eponymous King Diamond, his music has had an influence on many bands across a variety of metal sub-genres. Mercyful Fate is an influential Danish heavy metal band often cited among the influences in the Black metal, Thrash metal, Power metal King Diamond is the heavy metal band that King Diamond formed after the split up of his First Wave of Black metal band Mercyful Fate.

Contents 1 Career 1.1 Mercyful Fate 1.2 King Diamond 2 Stage Presence 3 Satanism 4 Discography 5 Awards 6 References 7 External links

Career

Mercyful Fate

Diamond's first band aka "Whitefish", with whom he played guitar & panflute, was reportedly called Brainstorm. Feeling creatively dissatisfied, Diamond left Brainstorm and began singing with local Danish hard rock band Black Rose. Black Rose was a Danish Hard rock / heavy metal band with King Diamond on vocals It was during this time in Black Rose that Diamond began experimenting with horror themed theatrics as well as shaping the malevolent quasi-Satanic stage persona that he would become known for in the future. In 1980, he left Black Rose and joined the punk-metal band Brats. Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) It was in Brats that Diamond met the three musicians (Hank Shermann, Michael Denner, Timi Hansen) that would join with Diamond in 1980 and become Mercyful Fate. Hank Shermann (born Rene Krolmark in 1958 is a Danish heavy metal Guitarist. Michael Denner (born 5 November 1958) is a Danish heavy metal guitarist Timi "Grabber" Hansen is a Danish bass player He played in the Danish heavy metal bands Danger Zone, Mercyful Fate from 1981 to 1985 and from Because of the group's stage presence, make-up and occult lyrics, their musical style is somewhat reminiscent of heavy metal, power metal, progressive metal and rock opera. Corpse paint (sometimes spelled corpsepaint) is a style of black-and-white or just white Makeup used extensively by Black metal bands during live Power metal is a style of Heavy metal music combining characteristics of traditional metal with Thrash metal or Speed metal, often within Progressive metal (often referred to simply as prog metal) is a sub-genre of Heavy metal music which blends the powerful guitar-driven sound of metal with the complex Rock operas, Concept albums Song cycles and Oratorios all differ from a conventional rock album which usually includes songs that are unrelated to each Following the 1984 release of Don't Break the Oath and the subsequent tour (which saw them play in the U. Don't Break the Oath is Mercyful Fate 's second full-length Album. S. for the first time), Diamond split ways with Mercyful Fate, as a result of frustration over creative differences with Hank Shermann. With him, he took two of his bandmates (Hansen and Denner) to pursue a solo career under his own name.

Mercyful Fate re-united in 1992 (while King Diamond simultaneously continued his solo career), but were disbanded by Diamond in 1999, as King decided to put Mercyful Fate in retirement and continue on with his solo career. In an interview with Metal Israel in 2005, King elaborated on the decision to retire Mercyful Fate, as he claimed that "it's impossible for me to live off Mercyful Fate. . . I can still live from King Diamond. "

In 2005 King said that while Mercyful Fate still has a contract and could record another record, it would have to be done only as a hobby since Fate does not earn enough money to support itself. ^[1]

King Diamond

With his solo act, King often uses the lyrics and music to create characters and tell stories in the form of concept albums. In Popular music, a concept album is an Album which is "unified by a theme which can be instrumental compositional narrative or lyrical" Albums meld together as one story (features present already in the Fatal Portrait album), but carry to more intricate levels (with the albums, Abigail, "Them" , and The Eye) to the dramatic story (Conspiracy). Fatal Portrait is the debut Album by the heavy metal band King Diamond. Abigail is the second King Diamond album and their first concept album Conspiracy is a name of a Concept album by King Diamond, the second part of the story begun on the album "Them". Typical of both the Abigail and Conspiracy tours was how King Diamond re-enacted much of the scenarios on stage, using special effects in the show much in the style of metal-musician Alice Cooper, of whom Diamond is a fan. Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer songwriter and musician whose career spans five King Diamond albums also often feature dueling guitar solos. On the CD inserts, the performer of each solo is credited, often using a symbol.

In 2001, King Diamond worked out a deal with the band Usurper to sing backup vocals on the song "Necronemesis" in exchange for them shifting their recording schedule around to accommodate the recording of Abigail II: The Revenge. "Usurp" redirects here You might be also looking for WikipediaChanging username/Usurpations. Abigail II The Revenge is an album by King Diamond released in 2002 and is plotwise a successor to the 1987 album Abigail. In 2004, King Diamond contributed vocals to "Sweet Dreams", which was the final track on the album of Dave Grohl's heavy metal side project Probot. Probot is a musical project by former Nirvana drummer and current Foo Fighters lead-singer Dave Grohl. In late 2005, King Diamond appeared on the Roadrunner United - The All-Star Sessions album, contributing vocals to the song "In the Fire", which featured multiple Roadrunner Records musicians (past and present) working together to create individual songs. Roadrunner United was a project organized by the Heavy metal Record label Roadrunner Records to celebrate its 25th anniversary King Diamond also guested on the Cradle of Filth song "Devil Woman" in late 2005.

In April 2006 King reunited with old friend Mikkey Dee (current Motörhead drummer) at a sold-out gig at Kåren in Gothenburg, Sweden. Michael Kiriakos Delaouglou, better known as Mikkey Dee (born 31 October 1963 in Gothenburg Sweden, is a half- Greek half- Swedish Gothenburg ( Swedish:) /jœte'bɔrj/ is a city, a municipality, and an urban area on the west-coast of Sweden. ^[2] In 2001 King referred to Dee as "one of the best [drummers] of all time and that's something that has bothered us since he left. "^[3]

King Diamond released his new album, Give Me Your Soul...Please, on June 26, 2007. Give Me Your SoulPlease is a Concept album by King Diamond released on June 26 2007 Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Following the release in December the band received a Grammy nomination in the "Best Metal Performance" category for the track "Never Ending Hill". The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards)—or Grammys —are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences ^[4] He was forced to cancel an upcoming United States tour due to a herniated disk, causing severe back pain, which puts him in intense pain almost all of the time. ". ^[5] He attributes the problem to the long stressful hours spent working on the album.

Stage Presence

On stage, Diamond uses a trademark microphone handle consisting of two femur bones in the shape of a cross. A live trademark was also Melissa, a full human skeleton which Diamond would sing to. In the mid-1980s Melissa's skull was stolen after a performance in the Netherlands. It was claimed to have been finally returned in 2006. ^[6]; however, this was denied by King Diamond himself. ^[7] Kiss bassist Gene Simmons claims to have sent Diamond a cease-and-desist letter over Diamond's makeup design, which Diamond complied with. Kiss (also typeset as KISS) is an American rock band formed in New York City in December 1972 Gene Simmons (born Chaim Witz (pronounced Haium on August 25, 1949) is an Israeli -born American Hard rock Bass A cease and desist (also called C & D) is an order or request to halt an activity or else face legal action ^[8]

Diamond has changed the design of his make-up often over the years. With Conspiracy, he wore a mesh of black and white line war paint, with some red "blood" made to look like a wound coming out of his forehead. With his album The Puppet Master, he used very little white and mainly had black inverted crosses going up and down his face.

Satanism

During a spring 1984 interview with British heavy metal magazine Kerrang! correspondent Dave Dickson, who, after some introductory remarks and questions about the then-current Mercyful Fate album Don't Break The Oath, took Diamond to task regarding his Satanic beliefs. Kerrang! is a weekly rock Magazine published by Bauer Consumer Media in the United Kingdom. Dickson made frequent references to infamous occultist Aleister Crowley, by whom Diamond denied being influenced. Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley (ˈkroʊli (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947 was a British Occultist Writer, mountaineer Diamond expressed his admiration of Anton Szandor LaVey (founder of The Church of Satan in San Francisco in 1966) in the interview, which has been cited by some as influential in the demise of Mercyful Fate (although Diamond has always denied this). Anton Szandor LaVey, (April 11 1930 &ndash October 24 1997 born Howard Stanton Levey, was the American Founder and High Priest of the In the same interview he claimed to have cursed Manowar, as Fate had briefly toured as a support act to Manowar in the UK, and there were personality conflicts between the two bands. Manowar is an American heavy metal band from Auburn New York.

He adorns himself with inverted crosses, the sigil of Baphomet (from the LaVeyan perspective) and has written lyrics openly hostile to Christianity (as evidenced in "The Oath" with lyrics including "I deny Jesus Christ, The Deceiver, and I abjure the Christian faith holding in contempt the whole of its works"). Baphomet is a name of unestablished origin It first appeared in trial transcripts during the Inquisition of the Knights Templar in the early 1300s Christianity ( Greek Χριστιανισμός from the word Xριστός ( Christ)is a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings However, with the albums released under his own name, he has downplayed the overt Satanism in favour of a "horror movie" approach, though he still wears inverted crosses as jewellery and makeup.

In an interview from 2006, King Diamond reveals that he does not follow any specific religion, and expresses concern that religion has led so many people to kill and destroy each other. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. According to himself, he has problems comprehending why religion has caused so much death and destruction, when it is logically impossible to prove the presence or absence of any god (for example, the Holocaust, Crusades, etc. The Holocaust (from the Greek el ''ὁλόκαυστον'' (el-Latn holókauston holos, "completely" and kaustos, "burnt" also known as The Crusades were a series of military campaigns of a religious character waged by much of Christian Europe against external and internal opponents ). He reveals that he has reached a point in his life where he has completely given up believing in anything religious and that he simply does not know what to answer when asked whether he is a Satanist or not. ^[9]

Discography

• King Diamond discography
• Mercyful Fate discography

Awards

• Grammys 2008 Best Metal Performance Nomination - "Never Ending Hill"^[10]

References

External links

• Coven Worldwide – Official website
• The United States Coven – The U. S. Fan Club
• King Diamonds Darkness Coven – King Diamonds Darkness Coven
• King Diamonds Image Factory – King Diamonds Image Factory

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