“This was more than music
almost atonal guitar and bass riffs before blasting into overdrive with George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher's guttural pipes spitting and roaring out the usual mayhem about torture
The first of King Diamond's back-to-back concept albums about a mentally ill grandmother and a house full of spirits (which concluded with 1989's Conspiracy) saw the Danish singer effectively deliver a full-on horror movie in audio form
my wife battled cancer and now we are going through a pandemic… so it is what it is… let’s dump it all on the table and purge
Baroness retained a sense of melody and structure here that had Blue Record resonating far beyond the bayou
KING DIAMOND 'IN CONCERT' (Black Vinyl) DEATH “This was more than musicOriginally released in 1991, but recorded in 1987, In Concert 1987 Abigail is the first live King Diamond album release, featuring the classic album recorded in concert. Whereas King's previous band Mercyful Fate was overtly satanic and occult, the King Diamond material was more fantastical and conceptual, though still with dark themes throughout. When King's original band Mercyful Fate split up, having released two genre defining masterpieces