King Diamond / Mercyful Fate

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Tuo oli tosiaan hyvä! Niistä kesän ensimmäisistä keikkanauhoituksista en saanut vielä selvää, tai mitään ei ainakaan jäänyt mieleen. Mutta nyt studioversio toimi kyllä, tuotantoa myöten.

Ihan tuo ei kuitenkaan kappaleena pääse 12(!) vuoden takaisen Never Ending Hillin ohitse kuitenkaan, joka oli viimeksi Jalometallissa 2014 nähtynä yksi setin kohokohdista, kaikkien kusenpolttamien ja puhkivedettyjen Abigailien rinnalla :)

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Aivan jumalaisen kuuloinen King edelleen! Biisikin vallan mainio. Tuskaan ukko on saatava, maksoi mitä maksoi.

Never Ending Hill on loistava biisi, mutta miinuksena tuossa (kuten koko levyllä) on, että King vetää levyllä todella vähän korkeita osuuksia ja nekin lähtee heikosti.
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Kingi on elämänsä kunnossa ja korkeatkin äänet lähtevät nykyään todella upeasti (uskomatonta mihin mies yltää kaikkien terveysongelmiensa jälkeen tällä ikää, valovuosia paremmin kuin 2006-2007), silti eniten diggaan Kingin keskiäänellistä laulua kuten parhaiten kuullaan esim. Into The Unknown -levyllä, The Ghost Of Change ja Holy Water näin yhtäkkiä mainittuna.

MF olisi nyt kesällä hienoa saada Suomeenkin, sitten uuden levyn myötä KD syksymmällä.
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Ai, ai, kun saataisiin MF Tampereen Rockfesteille! :metal:
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Pagan Fears wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:45 am Aivan jumalaisen kuuloinen King edelleen! Biisikin vallan mainio. Tuskaan ukko on saatava, maksoi mitä maksoi.

Never Ending Hill on loistava biisi, mutta miinuksena tuossa (kuten koko levyllä) on, että King vetää levyllä todella vähän korkeita osuuksia ja nekin lähtee heikosti.
Itselle Never Ending Hilliin on aina tavallaan kiteytynyt koko Give Me Your Soul...Please -levy: ihan jees, mutta aika lähellä heikointa Kingiä. Biisinä ei toki heikoin biisi, mutta levy on jokseenkin laiska ja biisiin kiteytyy tuo sama fiilis. Toki Kingin kohdalla voidaan soveltaa sitä iän ikuista "paskimmillaankin parasta" -sanontaa kun heikoinkin Kingin levy menee ohi melkeinpä mistä tahansa muusta.

Uusi biisi vaikuttaa hyvältä. Ei mikään jalat alta lyövä hitti, mutta kuulostaa sen verran hyvältä, että odotukset levyä kohti pysyvät katossa.
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Mercyful Fate julkistettiin juuri Sweden Rockin 31 ensimmäisen bändin joukossa, siellä kai tuon itekin ensi kertaa näkisi, kun kuudetta kertaa tie käy sinne.

Vielä on 59 bändiä julkistamatta, joissa huutaisi vielä kolmea pääesiintyjää tuon toisen tanskalaisen, kamaluuden rinnalle :?
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Jussi wrote: Fri Nov 22, 2019 9:53 am Mercyful Fate julkistettiin juuri Sweden Rockin 31 ensimmäisen bändin joukossa, siellä kai tuon itekin ensi kertaa näkisi, kun kuudetta kertaa tie käy sinne.
Huono homma kyllä tämä. Kuinka todennäköistä on, että MF nähtäisiin Tuskassa kun on länsinaapurissa muutamaa viikkoa ennen. Jos joku Suomessa on MF:n buukannut niin se lienee Rockfest.
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Ainakin Krakovan Mystic Festival kutsuu 8) Jostain syystä on sellainen fiilis, ettei MF ensi kesänä Suomeen eksy, joten reissuunhan se on lähdettävä.
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Jussi wrote: Fri Nov 22, 2019 9:53 am Mercyful Fate julkistettiin juuri Sweden Rockin 31 ensimmäisen bändin joukossa, siellä kai tuon itekin ensi kertaa näkisi, kun kuudetta kertaa tie käy sinne.

Vielä on 59 bändiä julkistamatta, joissa huutaisi vielä kolmea pääesiintyjää tuon toisen tanskalaisen, kamaluuden rinnalle :?
Ei kai In Flames vie toista pääesiintyjä paikkaa?? 32 bändiä julkistamatta ja Mercyful Fate ainoa must see bändi, tulee hintaa yhden orkesterin näkemisestä. Missä ovat Iron Maiden ja Judas Priest???
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No hei Andy, koska uusi KD levy on valmis?
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Sabbathman wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2019 7:47 am No hei Andy, koska uusi KD levy on valmis?
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AndyLaRocque wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2019 6:41 am
Jussi wrote: Fri Nov 22, 2019 9:53 am Mercyful Fate julkistettiin juuri Sweden Rockin 31 ensimmäisen bändin joukossa, siellä kai tuon itekin ensi kertaa näkisi, kun kuudetta kertaa tie käy sinne.

Vielä on 59 bändiä julkistamatta, joissa huutaisi vielä kolmea pääesiintyjää tuon toisen tanskalaisen, kamaluuden rinnalle :?
Ei kai In Flames vie toista pääesiintyjä paikkaa?? 32 bändiä julkistamatta ja Mercyful Fate ainoa must see bändi, tulee hintaa yhden orkesterin näkemisestä. Missä ovat Iron Maiden ja Judas Priest???
38 on julkistamatta vielä, ja uskoisin että niiden joukossa on ainakin 2 pääesiintyjää. Tosin mikä kenellekin on 'must see' -itelle sellainen tuli tässä pompsissa Praying Mantisin myötä, jonka vuoksi olen useasti katsonut Lontoon tai hollannin tmv. reissua erikseen, että pääsisi ees kerran näkemään :D

In Flamesin slotista en osaa sanoa; viimeksi olivat siellä pari vuotta sitten (pääesiintyjänä) ja lähdin menemään majapaikkaa kohti heitä ennen olleen Treatin (Dreamhunter-teemakeikka eli se oli vissiin 2017) jälkeen kun oli viimeinen, la-ilta ja auringonpaahteessa vedetty keskiviikosta asti siinä vaiheessa, to-la 13-14 h päiviä. Kun puoliltapäivin alkaa ohjelma ja 02 jälkeen muina iltoina ekaa lukuunottamatta lopeteltu festaripäivää. Mee kattoon MF jonnekin muualle?
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Eiköhän Jussi matkata taas samaa matkaa Mjällbyn majapaikkaan :wink:
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Michael Denner

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”Tapanani ei ole velloa menneissä ikävissä asioissa” – haastattelussa ex- Mercyful Fate -kitaristi Michael Denner

https://www.inferno.fi/uutiset/tapanani ... el-denner/
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King Diamond Reissues

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KING DIAMOND On Upcoming Reissues: 'We're Trying To Go Back To The Absolute Original Stuff'

April 10, 2020

https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/king- ... nal-stuff/

KING DIAMOND On Upcoming Reissues: 'We're Trying To Go Back To The Absolute Original Stuff'

On April 24, KING DIAMOND will release CD and LP versions of the classic albums "Abigail" and "Fatal Portrait" via Metal Blade Records. They will be followed by CD and LP versions of "Conspiracy" (May 1), "Them" (May 1), "The Eye" (May 15), and "In Concert 1987" (May 15), also via Metal Blade. The vinyl editions feature spined sleeves with an insert and download card; the CDs contain a mini-LP CD-insert with a small fold-out poster.

In a video message announcing the reissues, KING DIAMOND's namesake frontman said (see below): "Metal Blade has acquired from Warner all the old catalogs from both KING DIAMOND and MERCYFUL FATE. All those old albums will be reissued, but not like what you would think. 'Cause we're trying to go back to the absolute original stuff when it came out the first time. I personally think it sounds much, much better than the gold remasters that was squooshed with compression and limiters. But the originals sound really good still today. They're gonna maintain the original dynamics, the clarity and all that stuff, that came out the first time they were released. I was pushing for it coming out with that old sound. I want those to be the ones, if you wanna go buy old MERCYFUL FATE and old KING DIAMOND, I want you to get the best you can possibly get — for my own sake as well. I wanna be proud of what we've done. So look out for all that stuff. There's some gems coming up."

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MERCYFUL FATE's Next Album

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HANK SHERMANN Has Written 'Six Or Seven' New Songs For MERCYFUL FATE's Next Album

May 2, 2020

https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/hank- ... ext-album/

Guitarist Hank Shermann of influential Danish metallers MERCYFUL FATE has confirmed that he is working on the first new music from the band in more than two decades.

Last August, it was announced that MERCYFUL FATE would reunite for an unspecified number of concerts throughout Europe and North America during the summer of 2020. However, with much of the world on lockdown due to the ongoing global pandemic, all major live events have been canceled or postponed, including most European and American rock and metal festivals.

Speaking about how the coronavirus crisis has affected MERCYFUL FATE's touring plans, Shermann told Australia's Heavy (hear audio below): "This totally [knocked] out all shows for 2020, I predict, and as it looks now, all MERCYFUL FATE shows look to be canceled. We might have an option in November [to do something], maybe, but who knows how it looks at that time?"

Asked if he is using the coronavirus downtime to work on new music, Shermann said: "First of all, King [Diamond, vocals] is living in Texas, in the States. I'm living here north of Copenhagen, in Denmark. The drummer [Bjarne T. Holm] is also here, so I work with him in the rehearsal room shaping the new songs. The other guitar player [Mike Wead] is in Stockholm, Sweden, and our new bass player [Joey Vera] is in Los Angeles. So everything is [being done via] Dropbox or e-mails."

He continued: "I have been working at least the last one and a half years on new MERCYFUL FATE songs, and I think there's about six or seven [tracks that are] about to be ready. The first song has been sent to King after it's been mixed and all the guys played on the song. So I sent the files to Joey in Los Angeles; he did the bass. And then I sent the same files to Mike in Stockholm; he did his solos. And now King has the first song, evaluating for the vocals to be added. And then we will rearrange certain parts to be twice as long and stuff like that."
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King Diamond / Mercyful Fate

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King Diamond has embodied the spirit of the spookiest season for metalheads for decades. In this Knotfest interview, he talks October holiday traditions, supernatural energies, and his current work writing two different albums.

https://knotfest.com/king-diamond-the-p ... halloween/

"We’re taking it very easy and not taking any risks, and the good thing is we have so much work anyway to keep us busy. I have to work on two different albums. It’s gonna go on until it’s done and otherwise, we just go and buy groceries, or take a drive every now and then to get out of the house. I’ve recently moved into a new house with a studio upstairs which is the best sounding room I have ever been in. I have very high expectations for what we are doing now. You can hear on the new song “Masquerade of Madness” as well that it is back to the old vocal style where anything goes. All vocals are lead vocals in my mind. That’s how it was in the old days. Sometimes you can be talked into leaving the choirs as backing vocals or whatever but that is not how I feel. I will sing a lead and then the next part of that lyric will be sung by a choir to the right, then a choir to the left takes over the next line, where it is always moving around taking on different effects. That is what I love, that craziness, because that makes it even more theatrical to listen to. We are back into that, full blast."

...

"Everything has been thrown around by how things have happened obviously. Mercyful Fate will be playing live first, doing these European festivals that were supposed to be being played now. We’re in Denmark for rehearsals first and then there are eight or so festivals in Europe, then we have to fly all the gear over to the US to play Las Vegas. There will be a couple of new songs from the Mercyful Fate album in the set next summer, which otherwise will just be from the EP, “Melissa” and “Don’t Break the Oath”. Totally old, with a couple new songs added to it. The other side of New Year’s should be the new King Diamond coming out, and then touring, touring, touring till we don’t tour anymore. The virus decides more than we do ourselves but it’s not a wasted year for us as we can do the albums in our own time without having to book time in someone else’s studio which really I am so glad for. I can get in here at 3 in the morning and start recording with no one bothering me."
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Onkos muilla kuningas tatuointeja?
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Uskon, kun oikeasti ilmestyvät :shock:
KING DIAMOND Says New Albums From Both MERCYFUL FATE And KING DIAMOND Will Be Ready In 2022

"Writing-wise, we are far with both [KING DIAMOND and MERCYFUL FATE] albums. Andy [La Rocque, KING DIAMOND guitarist] is doing a second run-through with his songs, the way he has been correcting a lot of things. Hank [Shermann, MERCYFUL FATE guitarist] has done the same thing, and I'm waiting for those songs to come back. The story is written, even for both KING DIAMOND albums, 'cause [the new KING DIAMOND album] 'The Institute' will be a two-album story. And that story is finished completely. I have a lot of vocal ideas for what they have sent me. I am writing my own [songs musically] too."

He continued: "60 percent of the KING DIAMOND [material], at least, will be mine — my songs — and all lyrics, naturally. MERCYFUL FATE also, I will be writing more in the direction of 'Don't Break The Oath'. Hank will be writing more music than me, but I will certainly write my share too. Back then, on 'Don't Break The Oath', I wrote 'Gypsy' and 'The Oath' and 'Come To The Sabbath' and then this little piece together with Michael Denner, 'To One Far Away'. So, it'll be more like that — maybe Hank will have six songs and me four — but we'll see how it turns out in the end. We'll probably have too many songs."

As for when fans can expect to see the new KING DIAMOND and MERCYFUL FATE albums released, King said: "The KING DIAMOND is next year for sure. MERCYFUL FATE will be ready to be released next year — a hundred percent sure too — but it will have to wait until KING DIAMOND is done, if you know what I mean. In the meantime, we'll be getting the writing done."

In November 2019, KING DIAMOND released a brand new song called "Masquerade Of Madness". The track was mixed by guitarist Andy La Rocque and King Diamond at Sonic Train Studios.

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".

KING DIAMOND's latest release was a DVD/Blu-ray, "Songs For The Dead Live", which came out in January 2019 via Metal Blade Records. The set captures 1987's seminal "Abigail" album in its entirety, twice, and in very different locales: 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 Wead, bassist Pontus Egberg and drummer Matt Thompson.

MERCYFUL FATE's most recent studio album, "9", arrived in 1999.

The band's current lineup includes King Diamond, Hank Shermann, Bjarne T. Holm on drums, Mike Wead on guitar, and Joey Vera (ARMORED SAINT, FATES WARNING) on bass.
Missäs välissä Joey Vera on liittynyt messiin, olenko vaan unohtanut vai kokonaan missannut?
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^Vera liittyi livekokoonpanoon 2019 kun Timi Hansenilla oli syövän kanssa kamppailu kesken, jonka sitten 20 hävisi.

Toivottavasti julkaisut tulee ensi vuonna, aika mahtavaa jos totetuu, että molemmilta tulee lätyt ulos.
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What if King Diamond wrote Master Of Puppets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42vpJ-zPj5s
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Re: King Diamond / Mercyful Fate

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MF:n keikka tämän vuoden Tuskassa oli ainakin omiin korviin kovaa luokkaa. En ollut aiemmin bändiä nähnyt, ja tuotanto vain pintapuolisesti tuttua. Näyttävät olivat lavarekvisiitat myös, ja soitto kulki mallikkaasti. Kovana Fates Warning fanina oli mukava nähdä Joey Vera livenä (FW:sta turha varmaan haaveilla..). Järkky kova basisti hän onkin. Taasen King Diamondhan oli äänensä puolesta aivan täyttä rautaa! Terveet elintavat ilmeisesti vaikuttaneet.
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