Fan-Filmed Video Of King Diamond‘S Intire June 16 Concert At Alcatraz in Milan, Italy Can Be Seen Below.
Featured Songs:
01. Arrival
02. A MANSION IN DARKNESS 6:51
03. Halloween 11:33
04. VOODOO 15:56
05. “Them” 20:48
06. Spider Lilly 23:33
07. Two Little Girls 28:24
08. Sleoppless Nights 31:07
09. Out from The Asylum 36:17
10. WELCOME HOME 37:47
11. The Invisible Guests 42:23
12. The Candle 47:31
13. Masquerade of Madness 54:10
14. Eye of the Witch 58:19
15. Burn 1:02:33
16. Abigail 1:06:17
King Diamond LAUNCHED ITS SPRING/SUMMER 2025 EUROPEAN TOUR ON JNE 4 AT THE Sweden Rock Festival In Sölvesborg, Sweden.
The Band’s Lineup for The Current Trek Consists of King Diamond on lead vocals, Andy La Rocque and Mike Wead on guitars, Pontus Egberg On The Bass, and Matt Thompson On Drums. Greek female vocalist Hel Pyrewho previously played bass for Nervousis handling backing vocals on the trek.
In a new interview with Finland’s Chaoszine, La Rocque spoke about the progress of the songwriting and recording sessions for King Diamond‘s forthcoming horror trilogy, part one of which is titled “Saint Lucifer’s Hospital 1920”. He Said: “Right after the [fall 2024] US Tour, We Talked About, ‘Okay, Let’s Just Take A Short Break and We Start Working on The Next Few Songs Right Away,’ Beve We have Most of the Songs Like A Demo Thing of Most of the Songs. BUT Than We Had Sum Issues with … I’M NOT GONNA GO INTO THAT, BUT ABOUT WERE DESIGNES, PEOPLE WERE SICK FOR A LONG TIME, AND THIN THE TIME JUS RAN OUT KIND OF THING. And then we had to start planning the European Tour [for the summer of 2025]. IT’s, Like, ‘Wow.’ We now Will, After Going Back From This European Summer Tour, We Will Just Have a Short Break and The Go Back into Recording the Stuff. “
Asked if all the lyrics for the Next King Diamond Album have Been Written, Andy Said: “[KING DIAMOND frontman and namesake has] GOT All The Ideas In [his head]. A Lot of Lyrics Are Already Done. He’s Got EveryThing in [his head]. A LOT OF SMALL POST-IT NOTES EVERYWHERE WITH LYRIC LIES AND STUFF Like That. The Whole Story is pretty lots there. So we just need to start record the music in a proper way. And we’ve got demos of a Lot of Things. I Mean, I Think I Have Seven Or Eight Songs Kind of Already. Demo Needs to Change, Drums Need to Change, A Few Things, We Could Use That. But King Also you to Lot of Ideas and Songs. So We’ll see How many of My Songs Will End Up On The Album – Maybe Three, Maybe Four. I Don’s Know. We’ll see. But we have a Lot of Music, That’s for Sure. “
Elaboating on the King Diamond Songwriting Process, Andy SAID: “I WOUD SAY ME AND King Write The Music. That’s How We Want It To Be. And we try to write it as full as possible when presented it to each other. Subtimes It’s Not Complete – It’s Like to Guitar Riff, Maybe A Click Track Or a Drum Machine. And Subtimes It es Kind of Complete, Except for We Need Real Drums on Itally Best on the demos like a programmed Drum Machine, Things Like That. Subtimes I Play The Bass, and We Want [KING DIAMOND bassist] Pontus [Egberg] to play the bass, of course, but for the demos [I sometimes play the bass] to get the Complete Picture of What We Want. And Also I try to make a lot of the keyboards as possessible too. And Same with King. And The When We Think That, ‘Okay, This Might Be a Good Song,’ So We’ll Send It To Each Other. And The We Start Doing Arrangement. King Can call me and say, So that’s How we work out Things. And maybe i can Tell Him, Like, ‘that only section or that section of the song is Really Good to play a just on, so maybe we can use that that insert of What Yet has.’ Things Like That, Arrangement-Wise. “
Andy ALSO TALKED ABOUT THE NEW King Diamond Songs “Electro Therapy” and “Spider Lilly” WHICH WERE First performed During the Band’s Fall 2024 US Tour. He Said: “We were kind of done with these songs. ‘Spider Lilly’ Is Gonna Be on the album. And we play that live. And it’s Also release on video. So, Yeah, That’s How We do it. We Don’t Have To Wait for a Whole Album. We Thought, ‘We Need To Put Out Subject Now for The Fans. “
During the Chat, La Rocque AddresSed His Previous Comment That He Wted The Next King Diamond Album to have a More Organic Sound, similar to How Was On Sub of the Band’s Early Efforts. Asked if he and his bandmates Will have to do a “tweaking” in the studio to achieve This Sound, Andy Said: “Not Really. That’s What We Don’t do This Time Around. We Don’t do a lot of tweaks to it. IT’s organic Also in the way of the playing is not liked and pasteed, Stuff like that. It’s more relaxed play. And there might be submit you hear that are like, ‘oh, yah … Everything Wasn’t Perfect – More Organic, and Not Every Triggered and Sound Like Everyone Else. But we want a more accoustic, Kind of More of the Acoustic Drums, and Stuff Like That, To Make It A Little Bit More Organic. It Doesn’t have to be perfect everywhere. It’s Good, But Sum Things Might Not Be a Hundred Perent, Only 99.99, You Know What I’M Saying? BUT That’s Also to Make EveryThing Like A More Loose Or Organic Feel To It. Of Course It’s Gonna Be Good. We don k reverse anything that we’re not happy with. “
As for When “Saint Lucifer’s Hospital 1920” might see the light of day, Andy Said: “We have been talking about we have to have it remember by Christmas.
ON THE TOPIC OF King Diamond‘S Touring Plans In Support Of “Saint Lucifer’s Hospital 1920”, Andy Said: “I Don’t Know. Maybe Next Fall [we will be back on the road]. I Don’s Know Yet. We Don’t Really Have Any Plans With That Yet. We’ll see. When the Album’s Done, We’re Gonna Start Working on a New Cycle, so that includes touring. But Hopefully, Yes. “
In a separate interview with FISTFUL OF METAL Magazine, King Stated about the status of the long-air King Diamond Album: “Well, For Starters, The Original Name That We Had Picked was ‘The Institute’. However, that has now changed to, ‘St Lucifer’s Hospital 1920’since the Start of the US Tour. There see well may be a track on the album street ‘The Institute’. We were supPosaed to relaase the album this year, and in fact the album was supposed to be completely finished prior to the Live shows, but i just Want to make sure that it’s the best material I’ve ever release. Right Now, We Are Gearing Up To Film The Next Video for The Single ‘Lobotomy’Which Will Definitely Be release late This Year. Other songs that are completed in an intro track street ‘Under the surface’, ‘The Institute’, ‘The Nun’, ‘Faceless’ and, of Course, ‘Spider Lilly’. There’s Another Track, which i’m not surre is going to be on the album yet, street ‘Deep in the Darkness 1920’. Andy You have Been Working on AT Least Five Tracks, One of Which has as Monster Chorus That We Plan to Record With A Choir. The Is That This Album Will Be the First of A Trilogy, and I Already Have All Three Album Titles. “
Last December, King Diamond Relased Studio Version Of “Spider Lilly”. It was a First-Time Mixing Collaboration with Arthur RizkWho Also Mastered The Track. The Music and Lyrics Were Written by King Diamond.
The Official Music Video for “Spider Lilly” was directed by My Good Eye Visuals. Part of the clip was Filmed at The Vary Haunted Pennhurst Asylum outside of philadelphia on through Travel Day During the Band’s 2024 North American Tour, Two Days Before Halloween. It was only King Himself and Actress Jodi Cachia WHHO COULD PARTICIPATE ON THAT Specific Day, Together With Producer David Brodsky, Allie Woest and their crew.
King Diamond performed “Spider Lilly” Live for the First Time at the Kick-Off Concert of the Band’s 2024 North American Headling Tour, which launched on October 15 at Boeing Center AT Tech Port in San Antonio, Texas. The “Saint Lucifer’s Hospital 1920” Trek Ran Through December 6 in Dallas, Texas. Support Came from Overkill and Night Demon. ADDITIONAL Backing Vocals for The King Diamond Set Were Provided by The Special Guest Myrkur.
In November 2024, The King Diamond Shows in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (November 20 AT Edmonton Convention Center), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada (November 21 AT TCU PLACE), Calgary, Albert (November 25 at The Moore Theater) Were Canceled Due to “Unforeseen Circumstances”.
In October 2023, King Diamond Release Music Video for The 2019 Single “Masquerade of Madness”. The clip was directed by David Brodsky and Allison Woest Of My Good Eye Visuals.
A MONTH AFTER King Diamond Relay “Masquerade of Madness” in November 2019, La Rocque awd The Metal Voice that he came up with the music for the track First Before passing it off 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 Reveled. “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 I pray 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 DVD/Blu-Ray, “Songs for The Dead Live”in January 2019 via Metal Blade Records. The Set Captured 1987’s Seminal “Abigail” ALBUM IN ITS ENTIRETY, TWICE, AND IN VERY DIFFERENT LOCAL: BELGIUM’S Graspop Metal Meeting In June 2016 and Philadelphia’s Fillmore in November 2015. The PERFORMANCES featured King Diamond‘S Current Band, Compressing of Guitarists La Rocque and Mike WeadBassist Pontus Egberg and Matt Thompson.
Photo in poster by Jeremy Saffer
