On social media the fans are getting impatient. On Facebook someone complained: “Even Tool didn’t take this long.” Everybody ...

Billboard chatted with King Diamond about the making of "Abigail" in the late ’80s and, in honor of the album track “The 7th Day of July 1777,†gleaned seven nuggets of little ...

Hauntings, heart attacks, lawsuits and Anton LaVey – King Diamond looks back on 40 years as ... Kim Bendix Petersen was set on the path to becoming spooky satanic rock screamer King Diamond.

King Diamond announced Aug. 3 that he will perform his 1987 landmark album 'Abigail' in its entirely when he returns to the road on Oct. 29.

1987’s Abigail set the bar high with its bone-chilling, phantasmagoric body-horror storytelling, and indeed, that’s partly why fans ran up the numbers with praise for King Diamond’s sophomore solo ...

CBS SF recently spoke with King Diamond about both of his bands ahead of the current Mercyful Fate fall tour that lands at the Hard Rock Sacramento in Wheatland on October 30.

The wait for a new King Diamond album has been going on for a long fucking time.It’s been roughly three years since Metal Blade Records CEO Brian Slagel told the world that the new album would come ...

I was doing King Diamond at the same time as our stuff, and me and Andy LaRocque were using Marshall Valvestate 4x12s for the most part. “I’ve always loved the Boss Overdrive; it's a great pedal.

King Diamond: Hank had become interested in [hard rock/funk band] Mother's Finest. And that was a style he wanted to see if we could incorporate. And I said, "No way can I sing to that kind of stuff.