Hi all...

I'm born in Sweden and I'm 35 years old and I've been into Metal and hardrock since I was about 10 years old I think.

The first records I bought were Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East and Gene Simmons solo-album from '78.

I've been collecting vinyls for many years now, and my favorite format is 7 inch singles.

I'm running this website called The Mercyful Fate / King Diamond F.A.Q. - Trying to gather as much info on every show and record by MF/KD possible. Collecting records, tickets, flyers, posters, live-recordings, setlists and more...

Besides collecting vinyl's I have a passion for live-recordings. After collecting KISS-recordings for quite some time, I drifted away from that to more Metal orientated stuff a couple of years ago. Now I'm mostly into Mercyful Fate and King Diamond and bands like that.

I actually have started to get interested in some not that commercial bands and early recordings. Recently got some Gotham City demos, Onyx demos and other cool stuff. And I really like it. Allways looking for more obscure stuff.

My favorite records:

Mercyful Fate - 1st mini-LP, Melissa and Don't Break the Oath.
King Diamond - Fatal Portrait, Them and Voodoo.
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengance and Defenders Of The Faith.
Saxon - Denim and Leather.
Metallica - Kill Em All.
Strebers - I Fädrens Spår
KSMB - Action
Charta 77 - The Beauty is in the Beholders Eyes
Motörhead - Bastards
and more...


The best shows I've seen:

* Mercyful Fate at the Sweden Rock Festival 1999.
* Saxon in Olympen, Lund, Sweden 1985 (12 years old, I was totally sold on metal from this moment...)
* Iron Maiden - Isstadion, Malmö, Sweden 1986.

And I have actually seen the Swedish band TRP live at Tivoliparken in Kristianstad (Must have been sometime in the early 80's). Don’t really remember much, but… I was there!