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Quote from: Herrick on Today at 10:56:28 AMLike twosuitsluke, my first exposure to King Diamond was through Metallica's Mercyful Fate medley. I got that cover album for Christmas whatever year it came out.
Around 1999 or 2000 I was listening to the medley and thought I should check out Mercyful Fate. I bought In The Beginning which I didn't know was a sort of compilation album. Doomed By The Living Dead is an amazing opener. The album has different versions of some songs from Melissa and I prefer these versions.
Anyway, I bought Melissa and Don't Break The Oath and thought they were great. I used to leave Melissa (the song) on repeat while I slumbered on the floor of my room.
A few months later I read an article on Metal-Rules about the "scariest" albums or something like that. Abigail was listed on there. I bought it and loved it. To this day, it's the probably the only album I know all the words too. I agree with everything Wolfking said about Denner and LaRoque's lead playing.
The rest of the King Diamond discography doesn't really do a lot for me but I still have all of them because of how much I love Abigail and Them. Seeing that band in 2016 or whenever their Abigail Anniversary tour happened was a dream come true for Herrick. I even bought the live album which I normally don't do.
I might see King Diamond in October of this year. I wonder if this upcoming tour means the new album will be coming out finally. I saw Mercyful Fate a couple years ago and they were awesome. Considering Sherman kind of broke up Mercyful Fate, it's odd that Sherman was brought back but not Denner. Does anyone know the story behind that?
Edit: For reference, Herrick was 18 in 1999. I was into Metal like Metallica and Iron Maiden, but I wasn't into any kind of extreme metal or weird vocals. Oddly, King's vocals never shriveled my pickle even though they are kind of silly.
Quote from: TAC on Today at 02:44:41 PMI've never listened to it, but since you and Josh mentioned it, I should give it a spin.
Quote from: wolfking on Today at 02:43:15 PMI know it's a different album but we used to play Celebrity Skin back in the old cover band days. Such a killer song.
Quote from: TAC on Today at 02:39:30 PMThere was a couple year period of my life where I was pretty open to stuff. Live Through This blew me away on first listen. There's such a reckless abandon about it that I really like. It still holds up, pretty much. Such a passionate vocal. TBH, I never followed up with anything else by them. It's a "moment in time" album for me.
Quote from: TAC on Today at 12:02:43 PMIn a mood today..![]()
Quote from: LithoJazzoSphere on Today at 01:16:24 PMKind of fascinating that you like something like this. Maybe the vague similarity to something like Blondie? I really need to revisit it, I remember preferring Celebrity Skin and recalling it being much more polished and bigger-sounding, though my recollection is vaguer beyond the title track.