Big interview with King Diamond in upcoming magazine.
Keep your eyes open for the upcoming issue of Sweden Rock Magazine, #93 – available in stores May 15. Sweden Rock Magazine has visited King in his home in Texas for a big cover article.
The cover of the magazine has a great old picture of King. Check it out.
Snowy Shaw will play all of his favorite songs by all of his former bands at Sparbankshallen, Varberg, Sweden on November 3rd, 2012. There will be Super Special appearances by Secret Gueststars and other surprises. Arranged by SS PROD & EVENEMANG VBG. Tickets and more information coming soon.
Check the following links for more info on this “no way I’m going to miss this”-gig:
The last time (and first) Snowy did a show like this back on May 27th, 2011, (at the Brewhouse, Gothenburgh, Sweden) he had the following guests on stage:
Andy LaRocque
Mike Wead
Hal Patino
Kee Marcello
Tomas Wikström
Mats Levén
MaryAnn Cotton
The show was recorded for a supposed album and DVD-release, but as of now the recoding is only available at iTunes and Spotify, still waiting for an actual album-release.
The Setlist from 2011 included songs from Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, Notre Dame and so on….
Complete setlist 2011:
Set 1
Intro: James Bond Theme
Black funeral (Mercyful Fate) Typhon (Therion) The book of heavy metal (Dream Evil) Whether with or without (Illwill) Progenies of the great apocalypse (Dimmu Borgir) The candle (King Diamond) Bouffon bloody bouffon (Notre Dame) Vlad the impaler (Notre Dame) Intro: The rhyme (Memento Mori) The seeds of hatred (Memento Mori) Snowy Shaw & Mannequin de Sade – Drum solo duet
I want you to want me (Cheap Trick)
Set 2
Intro: Halloween
Medley: Blood of Kingu / Muspelheim (Therion) The candle (King Diamond, short interlude only)
Black birthday (Hip hip hooray) (Notre Dame) A misconception of the french kiss (Notre Dame) The sledge (Dream Evil) Halloween (King Diamond) Come to the sabbath (Mercyful Fate) Made of metal w/ Book of heavy metal ending (Dream Evil) / Medley ends
XXX le masochiste
The eye of the witch (King Diamond) Sleepless nights (King Diamond) My friend (the end) (Dream Evil) Singh Hai (Illwill) Blacksmith & Co. (Notre Dame) M.O.M. (Dream Evil) To mega therion (Therion) My generation (The Who)
What guests will there be this time? We’ll just have to wait and see…
Great video recording from Mercyful Fate’s show in Amsterdam, Holland, January 21, 1984.
There must be more recorded from this show. (There is a couple of seconds from this show in a danish documentary, but there must be more somewhere..) If anyone knows anything about more from this show, please contact: admin@mfkdfaq.com
And the other announced show will take place at Hellfest in Clisson, France on June 15, 2012.
According to the Helfest website these will be the only two European dates this year.
On December 6, Mercyful Fate joined Metallica onstage to perform a Mercyful Fate Medley. The event took place on the second show of four where Metallica is celebrating their 30th anniversary. It was great seeing King, Hank, Michael and Timi reunited on stage.
Very special thanks to: Bill Myers, Eli Medellin and Justino Rodriguez de Alba.
Posted on March 22nd, 2011 - 20:10
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King Diamond health update!
King Diamond’s wife, Livia Zita, posted the following update on the Coven Worldwide forum:
“Hi Everyone,
Some of you have been asking for an update on King’s health, so I thought I’ll write what’s been going on.
King has just finished his Cardiac Rehabilitation program this past Friday, and graduated with flying colors. Thanks to the wonderful people at the rehab center, his exercise regimen helpe him gain a lot of muscle, and start on the road of building up good endurance.
We will start regular exercises now to get the endurance up to nice levels.
The examinations by his heart surgeon and cardiologist revealed that his health is steadily improving, and they all expect him to feel better than ever, 15 years younger than he really is.
I am immensely proud of what he has achieved in these short 3 months, stopped smoking entirely, changed diet and doing regular exercise among other things.
I cannot say anything certain about when he will be back working on King Diamond related things, but he is looking forward to finishing the DVDs eventually, and he is most certainly not stopping music.
I hope this information was helpful, I can honestly say that his progress has been nothing short of amazing. He is the strongest person I know.
He would also like to extend his huge gratitude to all of you, for your absolutely amazing support. It has really meant a lot to him.
Enjoy his Cardiac Rehabilitation “graduation” picture below.
