The saga concerning the upcoming King Diamond album continues! It began in 2019 with a song called “Masquerade Of Madness”. Nearly three years, Metallic Blade Information CEO Brian Slagel revealed that he deliberate to launch the brand new King Diamond album previous to the brand new Mercyful Fate album, and that “Masquerade Of Insanity” probably won’t even be on included.
Then final February – once more, virtually a yr in the past – Mercyful Fate guitarist Hank Shermann mentioned the band had roughly eight or 9 songs prepared for his or her new document, and each Mercyful Fate and King Diamond albums should come out that year. And right here we’re in 2024, Diamond-less.
Slagel has now commented to The Metallic Voice that he is hoping one other new track or two can floor earlier than King Diamond hits the street this October, however y’know – who is aware of.
“The hope is that we have got [new music] to launch earlier than the tour however that is actually as much as them, getting it completed and recorded. So that is the hope. However I’ll let you know, that clearly he is identified for particularly within the final like 10-15 years for having these elaborate stage reveals for each Mercyful Fate and King Diamond. And a number of the issues that he is trying to do on this tour simply stage of manufacturing smart I do not assume anyone’s ever carried out earlier than.”
“He sort of informed me about what they’re doing and the way they will do it and all these ideas, and it seems like they will pull all of it collectively to have the ability to do all these things. And for him , I believe it is anticipated now that it is advisable to see one thing excessive manufacturing smart as a result of he set that bar.
“After they performed that Sweden rock competition, sort of his first comeback after the guts assault and ever since then they’re always elevating the bar manufacturing smart and this one’s going to be some fairly insane stuff that is going to go on manufacturing smart. So I am unable to provide the particulars however I can let you know it’ll be greater than probably one thing you’ve got most likely by no means seen earlier than.
Slagel later added: “We’re hoping that we’ll get a track or two, after which the document will come out hopefully pretty shortly after that, it simply takes time … artwork takes time.”
King Diamond will hit the street throughout North America for the primary time since 2019 this October by way of December for the Saint Lucifer’s Hospital 1920 tour. King Diamond will probably be joined by black metallic artist Myrkur for backing vocals and organ all through the tour, whereas all reveals will probably be opened by Overkill and Night Demon. Tickets are available here.
10/15 Aztec Theatre San Antonio, TX
10/16 Bayou Music Middle Houston, TX
10/18 Andrew J Brady Music Middle Cincinnati, OH
10/19 The Manufacturing facility St. Louis, MO
10/20 The Midland Theater Kansas Metropolis, MO
10/22 Murat Theatre At Outdated Nationwide Middle Indianapolis, IN
10/23 The Louisville Palace Theatre Louisville, KY
10/25 The Jap Atlanta, GA
10/26 Duke Power Middle for the Arts Mahaffey Theater St. Petersburg, FL
10/28 The Fillmore Silver Spring, MD
10/30 Kings Theater Brooklyn, NY
10/31 Roadrunner Boston, MA (no Overkill)
11/2 MTelus Montreal, QC
11/3 The Theatre At Nice Canadian Mississauga, ON
11/4 The Masonic Temple Detroit, MI
11/6 The Agora Theatre & Ballroom Cleveland, OH
11/7 The Chicago Theatre Chicago, IL
11/8 The Riverside Theater Milwaukee, WI
11/10 The Fillmore Minneapolis, MN
11/11 Vibrant Music Corridor Waukee, IA
11/14 Mission Ballroom Denver, CO
11/16 The Advanced Salt Lake Metropolis, UT
11/18 Orpheum Vancouver, BC
11/20 Edmonton Conference Middle Edmonton, AB
11/21 TCU Place Saskatoon, SK
11/22 Gray Eagle Resort And On line casino Calgary, AB
11/24 Keller Auditorium Portland, OR
11/25 Moore Theater Seattle, WA
11/27 Fox Theater Oakland, CA
11/29 Youtube Theater Los Angeles, CA
11/30 The Theater At Virgin Motels Las Vegas, NV
12/1 Cal Coast Credit score Union Open Air Theatre San Diego, CA
12/2 The Van Buren Phoenix, AZ
12/4 REVEL Albuquerque, NM
12/6 The Manufacturing facility In Deep Ellum Dallas, TX
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