Live Rock Music Concerts you have uploaded video of KING DIAMOND‘s entire November 29 concert at the YouTube Theater in Los Angeles, California. Check it out below.
The setlist was as follows:
01. Arrival
02. A Mansion In Darkness
03. halloween
04. Voodoo
05. Spider Lilly
06. Sleepless Nights
07. Welcome Home
08. The Invisible Guests
09. The Candle
10. Masquerade Of Madness
11. Electrotherapy
12. Eye Of The Witch
13. burn
Encore:
14. Abigail
KING DIAMOND kicked off its long-awaited North American headlining tour on October 15 at Boeing Center at Tech Port in San Antonio, Texas. The “Saint Lucifer’s Hospital 1920” trek is scheduled to run through December 6 in Dallas, Texas. Support is coming from OVERKILL and NIGHT DEMON. Additional backing vocals for the KING DIAMOND set are provided by the special guest Myrkur.
Last month, the KING DIAMOND shows in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (November 20 at Edmonton Convention Centre),Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada (November 21 at TCU Place),Calgary, Alberta Canada (November 22 at Gray Eagle Event Centre),Portland, Oregon (November 24 at Keller Auditorium) and Seattle, Washington (November 25 at The Moore Theater) were canceled due to “unforeseen circumstances.”
KING DIAMOND‘s setlist for the current tour includes two new songs, “Spider Lilly” and “Electrotherapy”.
When the tour was first announced, KING DIAMOND‘s namesake frontman said about what fans can expect: “This is Saint Lucifer’s Hospital. Enter if you dare!
“We have been busy putting this ever-growing horror story together, and it’s still growing. I know the end of it, but how we will get there will be a long trip. There are so many characters, and so many unexpected things along this journey. It’s a crazy family on another timeline in 1920, where I experienced some hard times, and they have to come in our time to steal from us to survive. stage production as well.
“There will be additional backing vocals by Myrkur and she’ll be playing organ for songs that need it. There will be some horrific surprises taking place on stage, but we are not to be held responsible since we are on a whole different timeline in 1920. It was back at the time when medicine was going through a dark period with lots of testing on human beings in order to progress medicine.
“This is Saint Lucifer’s Hospital, also known as The Institute. Enter if you dare!”
KING DIAMOND 2024 touring lineup:
Andy La Rocque – guitar
Mike Wead – guitar
Pontus Egberg -bass
Matt Thompson – drums
Myrkur – additional backing vocals, keyboards
Titled “The Institute”, KING DIAMOND‘s first studio LP in 18 years is tentatively due in 2025 via metalblade. It will be made available as a two-LP horror concept story, with the second part arriving at a later date.
In October 2023, KING DIAMOND released a music video for the 2019 single “Masquerade Of Madness”. The clip was directed by David Brodsky and Allison Woest of MyGoodEye Visuals.
At the time of the video’s release, King commented: “‘Masquerade Of Madness’ was released digitally in 2019 before our North American tour. During rehearsals, we took one full day to film ‘Masquerade Of Madness’ with David Brodsky and Allison Woest. We spent all day and all night recording while performing the song with our full tour stage show choreography. After the tour, Covid happened.
“The video was all but forgotten as the world came to a standstill — we never saw a single frame from all the footage. Years later, as things began to pick up and writing began for both new MERCYFUL FATE and KING DIAMOND records, we wondered, what happened to that video from four years ago? So we decided to check in with David Brodsky and a couple of weeks later, we had the first cut of the video.
“I was speechless! I had nothing to criticize and after just a few notes from Andy La Rocquethe video for ‘Masquerade Of Madness’ it was finished! There’s so much mood and black and white is used in a perfect way with jodi‘s performances. The visuals fit the music flawlessly and this is now among my favorite KING DIAMOND videos along with ‘Sleepless Nights’ and ‘Welcome Home’ — and not to forget of course, our double live DVD.”
A month after KING DIAMOND released “Masquerade Of Madness” in November 2019, KING DIAMOND guitarist Andy La Rocque told The Metal Voice that he came up with the music for the track first before passing it off to Kingwho “needed to arrange a few things and change just a small few things for making it work with his vocals. And then, of course, he wrote the lyrics for it,” the guitarist revealed. “So we [went] a little back and forth until he felt like, ‘Okay, this is cool, man. This is the right key to sing in,’ and all that.”
KING DIAMOND received a Grammy nomination in the “Best Metal Performance” category for the track “Never Ending Hill” off the band’s last album, 2007’s “Give Me Your Soul…Please”.
“Give Me Your Soul…Please” sold 4,500 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 174 on The Billboard 200 chart.
KING DIAMOND released to DVD/Blu-ray, “Songs For The Dead Live”in January 2019 via Metal Blade Records. The set captures 1987’s seminal “Abigail” album in its entirety, twice, and in very different venues: Belgium’s Graspop Metal Meeting in June 2016 and Philadelphia’s Fillmore in November 2015. The performances feature KING DIAMOND‘s current band, comprising of guitarists La Rocque and Mike Weadbassist Pontus Egberg and Matt Thompson.
