One of the greatest has left us.

It’s the sad truth that Ronnie James Dio passed away yesterday, 67 years old. He lost the battle against cancer after some time of illness.

He will always be remembered.

R.I.P.

King Diamond pays tribute to Ronnie James Dio on his MySpace Blog.
 

Hal Patino has joined long time friends Pretty Maids as thier new bass player.

He will make his live debut with the band on may 8, 2010, in Aalborg, Denmark.

The latest recording that was released with Hal was with the band Disasterpiece. Thier first album was released in 2009.

More info can be found at:

Pretty Maids official website

Hal Patino MySpace

The Tour Date Archive have been updated.

Check the Tour Date Updates page to which dates that have been updated.

Scans of the following have been added:

* 23 Tickets
* 18 Live Pictures
* 17 Promo Posters
* 7 Promo Adverts
* 5 Promo Flyers  

I need to get in contact with any people that attended the Mercyful Fate / King Diamond show in Buenos Aires, Argentina on the 25th of August 1996.

If you know anything about this show, or have any info about it, please contact me at: admin@mfkdfaq.com

I'm also looking for any kind of reviews, photos and so on.

According to blabbermouth.com, Massacre Records will release new vinyl versions of six King Diamond albums on the 26th of March, 2010.

They will be released with gatefold covers, handnumbered and different colors on the vinyl.

The following albums will be released:
* The Spider's Lullabye (1995)
* The Graveyard (1996)
* Voodoo (1998)
* House Of God (2000)
* The Puppet Master (2003)
* Give Me Your Soul ... Please (2007)

Blabbermouth.com article.

Over 25 venues that was missing in the Mercyful Fate tour date list has been added today.

To see which dates that has been updated, check the tour date updates.

Big Thanks to René Ekman for sharing his research on the Mercyful Fate Tour-Dates.

DEMONICA’s first Album“DEMONSTROUS“cover art and tracklist unveiled.

“DEMONSTROUS” will feature the following tracks: DEMON CLASS -  GHOST HUNT - MY TONGUE - LUSCIOUS DAMNED - BELOW ZERO - ALIEN SIX - PALACE OF GLASS - FAST AND FURIOUS - SUMMONED - ASTRONOMICA. The Album was recorded in the Bay Area, the Rocky Mountains and Copenhagen, Denmark. Mixed by Dave Otero. It’s Thrash Metal! It’s Serious! Relentless from Top to Bottom! Artwork created by Gustavo Sazes. Album out on February 26th (Europe) February 17th (Japan) USA T.B.A.

For more info, check out Demonica's MySpace.

Added a bunch of pictures from the King Diamond show in Paris, France - 1990.

Very big thanks to J-F LESCENE for these great pictures.

Check 'em out here.

The Mercyful Fate / King Diamond F.A.Q. whishes you all a Happy New Year!

And don't forget to check out the newly released remasters from King Diamond:

The Spider's Lullabye
The Graveyard
House Of God
Voodoo

All four are availble as CD's in digipack and as handnumbered vinyls with gatefold sleeves. The vinyls are limited to 500 each. They both looks and sounds amazing. Check 'em out!

See you all next year with lots of great updates to come on the site.

/Webmaster

New pictures where added to two King Diamond shows that took place in Houston, TX, USA back in the 80's. September 29, 1988 at NRG and November 26, 1989 at Numbers. Also included are tickets and adverts.

Some tickets and other corrections done to a couple of other dates as well. Check the Tour Date Updates.

Big thanks to Wesley Dodson for this update.

Update 2009-11-21: A couple more pictures from Wes has been uploaded to the Mercyful Fate 1995-02-11, Houston, TX, USA-show.

The Mercyful Fate and King Diamond tour date lists have been updated with some scans of tickets, posters and flyers.

To see which dates that have been updated, check the Tour Date updates list at the following link: http://www.mfkdfaq.com/tour_updates.php

Here is the report from this years Sweden Rock Festival. Another great festival with lots of great bands and rain...

Check out the full story and pictures of bands like Motörhead, Riot and Heaven And Hell under the Specials-section.

Direct link to the article.
 

Dave Otero has completed the mix of Demonica’s 1st Album at his Flatline Audio in Denver, Colorado. Otero (Martriden,Cobalt,Cephalic Carnage) has been working very hard to get the most brutal mix with his famous signature sound.

“We are totally stoked how this turned out, and can’t wait to get it out there. These 10 songs are the  most thrashy and brutal songs I have ever played” says Hank. 

For the full story check: http://www.demonica.net

King Diamond has updated his blog with info on the upcoming Evil-single on iTunes and Limited Edition picture-disc, upcoming DVD's with Mercyful fate and King Diamond, upcoming King Diamond Remasters and some new shoes...

Check the blog here: King Diamond MySpace blog.

Check back here for more info on the upcoming Picture Disc.

And please remember to buy the new tracks availble on iTunes, Evil and Curse Of The Pharaohs.

The Tour Date archive have been updated.

Ticket scans and some setlists added and some minor corrections have been done.

To see which dates that have been updated or corrected, check the Tour Date Updates.

 As many of you already know, Mercyful Fate’s Evil is featured as a playable track on Guitar Hero: Metallica. Mercyful Fate re-recorded these two tracks specifically for the game because the original masters no longer exist. Now, the band is making both available to fans to purchase on iTunes! These versions were recorded at Earplug Studio in Copenhagen and Nomad Recording Studio in Dallas, Texas. They were both mastered by Andy LaRocque at his Sonic Train Studio in Sweden.

 King Diamond comments: “It was a lot of fun to get a chance to re-record "Evil" and "Curse of the Pharaohs" from our 1983 "Melissa" album. It was cool to go into the studio and try to figure out all the various harmony vocals and see if I could still do them. The other guys had a lot of fun with this project too, and the whole thing turned out much better than we could have hoped for. Everyone nailed their performances and Hank’s solos were even slightly improved. Everything is right where it should be and with a much better sound! The “feel” was there and all of the guys - Hank, Denner, Timi and Bjarne are all naturals. The versions that will be up on iTunes were mastered by Andy LaRocque and even with a 2009 sound, there’s no doubt that these songs were recorded by Mercyful Fate!”

 If you have yet to check out Guitar Hero: Metallica - make sure you do! King Diamond himself is a playable character in the game once you unlock the Evil track! Plus, a video of King Diamond’s on-stage performance with Metallica at Ozzfest 2008 in Dallas is included as a bonus feature in the game.

 Evil and Curse Of The Pharaohs will be available for fans to purchase digitally on July 14^th. A special edition picture disc vinyl single will be available on September 1^st!

http://www.myspace.com/kingdiamond

http://www.covenworldwide.org

According to Masssacre Records release schedule there are three MF/KD releases coming this year.

The release dates as of now are:

Mercyful Fate - Evil / Curse Of The Pharaohs - Ltd. 12" picture disc - August 28, 2009

King Diamond - title t.b.a. - Double-DVD - October 30, 2009

Mercyful Fate - title t.b.a. - Double-DVD - December 18, 2009

The songs on the "Evil / Curse Of The Pharaohs" picture disc were re-recorded for the Guitar Hero: Metallica game back in August 2008. Only "Evil" was used in the game. Mercyful Fate was almost re-united with 4/5 of the classic line-up: with King Diamond, Hank Shermann, Michael Denner, Timi Hansen and on the drums, Bjarne T. Holm.
 

Sounds like this could be a nice MF/KD year, so keep your eyes open.

There won't be any updates here for about 2 weeks. I will be at the Sweden Rock Festival and after that I will be out of town for a week.

But keep your eyes open for major updates including:

* Discography update with more than 400 pictures of labels and covers.
* A bunch of ticket scans.
* More setlists.
* Biographies and Discographies of every member, past and present.
* Releated band info.
* Timeline
and more...

There will also be a Report from Sweden Rock Festival and among other stuff a review of Motörheads gig.

Stay Evil.

/Webmaster

Matt Thompson has finished laying down the drum tracks for the as-yet-untitled third album from the Florida progressive metal act AGHORA. The sessions were held at Texas Indian Trails Studio with engineer and co-owner Alex Gerst. Guitarist/mainman Santiago Dobles states, "It was a great experience with zero obstacles. Studio facility is great and Alex is a drummer himself, so he really understands the approach that is involved in the AGHORA stuff."

Santiago continues, "Matt is amazing! He is very smooth, yet razor-accurate with a lot of balls! It's good to have the metal muscle power yet the fusion open air and breath of a Vinnie Colaiuta, Jack DeJohnette and Billy Cobham. Matt has 100% free control and is laying it down solid! He flows very smoothly with a lot of power and balls."

AGHORA's new album will contain 10 songs of "full-on serious intensity," according to Dobles.

The band's recording lineup is as follows:

Alan Goldstein (bass)
Diana Serra (vocals)
Matt Thompson (drums)
Santiago Dobles (guitar)

AGHORA's second album, "Formless" was produced in part by Neil Kernon (QUEENSRŸCHE, NEVERMORE, CANNIBAL CORPSE, DEICIDE).

The band's self-titled first album (2000) was recorded in 1999 with the help of Sean Malone and Sean Reinert, both current members of CYNIC.

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/

Check out Matt Thompson's MySpace at: http://www.myspace.com/mobrules

Thanks to Marc Fischer for the great pictures from the 1988-11-11 King Diamond show in Phildelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. 35 Black & white photos added to the King Diamond tour list.

Check the pictures by clicking this link.

Check out Marc Fischer's great collection site, Public Collectors, at http://www.publiccollectors.org/

PETE BLAKK is back! The Metal madman and axe slinger Pete Blakk & Hal Patino from KING DIAMOND who released the Classic albums ‘THEM’, ‘CONSPIRACY’, ‘THE EYE’ has joined forces with THE Metal voice from hell Wade Black (LEATHERWOLF, CRIMSON GLORY) to form the next Metal success DISASTER PEACE. The self titled album was produced by Pete long time friend ANDY LA ROCQUE from KING DIAMOND. Andy’s talent and name recognition as a producer is well known in the industry as for his work for EVERGREY, FALCONER etc Andy is also contributing with some lead guitars.
 

01. Disaster Peace
02. Scarecrow
03. S & M
04. Purgatorio
05. Judas Witch
06. Hallowed Death
07. Don’t Come Back
08. Immigrant Song
09. Blood To Blood
10. The Gaoler
11. My Guns
12. Inferno
13. Kill Em & Love Em
 

Release date: April 24, 2009

Music By Mail MySpace  -  Disaster / Peace MySpace

The line-up for the Sweden Rock Festival 2009 is now complete. The MFKDFAQ.com will attend the festival, so keep your eyes open for reviews and more.

Lots of great bands on the bill: 

HEAVEN & HELL
TWISTED SISTER
DREAM THEATER
HAMMERFALL
MOTÖRHEAD
VOLBEAT
IMMORTAL
LITA FORD
URIAH HEEP
CANDLEMASS
AMON AMARTH
RIOT
JON OLIVA'S PAIN
RAGE
TIM "RIPPER" OWENS
DEMON
FORBIDDEN
UNLEASHED
ABRAMIS BRAMA
THOR
HELSTAR
TANK
BULLET
GRAND MAGUS
TORCH
WITCHCRAFT
ENFORCER

For the complete line-up check the Sweden Rock Festival website.

Massacre Records in Germany has scheduled the upcoming MERCYFUL FATE and KING DIAMOND DVDs.

The King Diamond DVD is due out on June 26th and the Mercyful Fate DVD is scheduled for August 29th.

Check Massacre Records Schedule.

According to covenworldwide.org, King Diamond is working on compiling two two-disc DVD sets, one with Mercyful Fate and one with King Diamond.

King has been working on the following concerts. Please note content of the DVD’s might change. Concerts mentioned here might after all not appear on the DVD.

Mercyful Fate DVD:
Copenhagen 1982 with Benny Petersen
Amsterdam Paradiso 1984
Copenhagen 1984
Reunion MF 1993
Roskilde Festival 1994
Copenhagen 1995

King Diamond DVD:
Washington 1986
1987 supporting Motorhead
Show footage 1989 USA + backstage footage
Full 1990 concert Spain Euro Conspiracy tour
Behind the scenes 1990 Conspiracy
Kopenhagen concert in the Park 1990 with 5 cameras


The two songs recorded for the Guitar Hero: Metallica game, "Evil" and "Curse Of The Pharaohs", will be released on iTunes round mid April. And these two songs have been mastered by Andy LaRocque for a possible Picture-disc EP, released by Metal Blade and Massacre.

For more info, check covenworldwide.org.

Both Mercyful Fate and King Diamond has played at the annual Sweden Rock Festival.

Mercyful Fate entered the stage back in 1999 and King Diamond performed in the summer of 2000.

There has also been a bunch of gigs with some of the related bands with members like Mikkey Dee, Hank Shermann, Michael Denner, Snowy Shaw etc.

This year Mikkey Dee will return with Motörhead to play the festival once again.

Read the full story, including setlists and reflections of the shows here...

Mercyful Fate re-recorded two classic songs for the "Guitar Hero: Metallica" game, "Evil" and "Curse Of The Pharaohs", back in August 2008.

"Evil" will be included in the game, but "Curse Of The Pharaohs" will not. According to King Diamond, the songs will be released via iTunes as soon as they are mastered.

4/5 of the original Mercyful Fate was involved in the recordings, King Diamond, Hank Shermann, Michael Denner, Timi Hansen and on the drums, Bjarne T. Holm.

For more info on the recordings check King Diamond's MySpace blog or Coven Worldwide.

Demonica is currently recording thier debut album. Mark Hernandez has completed all the drum tracks at the Sonic Room Studio in Livermore, California.

For more info check Hank Shermann's MySpace studio blog at: http://www.myspace.com/hankshermann


Demonica are:

Hank Shermann : Guitars
Craig Locicero : Guitars
Klaus Hyr : Vocals
Mark Hernandez : Drums
Marc Grabowski : Bass

Demonica MySpace

Night Of The Vinyl Dead has released another King Diamond related vinyl album. This time it's Motörhead - "25 Alive - Boneshaker".

The album is a recording of Motörhead's 25th anniversary concert at Brixton Academy in London on October 22, 2000.

It was released in January 2009. It's a limited Edition double album with gatefold cover and colored vinyl, one blue and one red disc. There's also a poster included.

Hand numbered 777 copies.

This album was previously only released on CD as a bonus disc with the DVD with the same name.


These are the confirmed 2009 Motörhead dates:

2009-03-06 - United Arab Emirates, Dubai, Desert Rock Festival
2009-04-10 - Argentina, Buenos Aires, Estadio Malvinas
2009-04-12 - Brazil, Curitiba, Master Hall
2009-04-15 - Brazil, Belo Horizonte, Chevrolet Hall
2009-04-17 - Brazil, Recife, Chevrolet Hall
2009-04-18 - Brazil, São Paulo, Via Funchal
2009-04-21 - Colombia, Bogotá, Coliseo Coberto El Campin
2009-06-05 - Sweden, Norje, Sweden Rock Festival
2009-06-13 - Holland, Bergum, Waldrock Festival
2009-06-26 - Spain, Zaragoza, Metalway Festival Interpenas
2009-06-28 - Germany, Gelsenkirchen, DEVILSIDE Open Air
2009-07-02 - Romania, Bucharest, Romexpo - B'est Fest
2009-07-04 - Czech Republic, BRNO, Rondo Arena
2009-07-05 - Germany, Leipzig, WITH FULL FORCE, Summer Open Air
2009-07-11 - Germany, Merzig, ROCK AM BACH Open Air
2009-07-31 - Germany, Waken, WAKEN OPEN AIR (Sold Out)
2009-11-11 - UK, Plymouth, Pavillion
2009-11-12 - UK, Bristol, Colston Hall
2009-11-13 - UK, Newport, Centre
2009-11-15 - UK, Swindon, Oasis
2009-11-16 - UK, Nottingham, Royal Concert Hall
2009-11-17 - UK, Newcastle, City Hall
2009-11-19 - UK, Glasgow, Academy
2009-11-20 - UK, Leeds, Academy
2009-11-21 - UK, Manchester, Apollo
2009-11-23 - UK, Cambridge, Corn Exchange
2009-11-24 - UK, Southend, Cliffs Pavilion
2009-11-25 - UK, Portsmouth, Guildhall
2009-11-27 - UK, Bournemouth, Solent Hall
2009-11-28 - UK, London, Hammersmith Apollo
2009-11-29 - UK, Wolverhampton, Civic Hall

Motörhead Official Website

Night Of The Vinyl Dead

Added a couple of pictures from the Mercyful Fate show at Sweden Rock Festival in Sweden, 1999-06-11.

Thanks to Leif Kröger for these great pictures.

Check them out here.

The new album by the band After All, contains a guest appearance by Andy LaRocque. Andy plays on a song called “Land Of Sin”.

The album, entitled “Cult Of Sin”, will be released march 23, 2009.


After All MySpace

The upcoming album "Ravenous", by Swedish metal heads Wolf, features a guest appearance by Hank Shermann. He has recorded a guitar solo for one of the songs.

Hank stated the following on his website:
- “I was invited to perform a guitar solo on the new WOLF “Ravenous” album. I took the challenge since I dig their songs and vibe, 100 % Metal here. Used my Flying V with an EMG 81 going into an ENGL amp. The Album will be released by late February in Europe, and late March in USA. Check it out… HS”

The artwork for the record is created by Thomas Holm, who also created the artwork for the Mercyful Fate albums “Melissa” and “Don’t Break The Oath”.

“Ravenous” will be released February 23, 2009 in Europe and March 24th, 2009 in USA.

Wolf's MySpace

Hank Shermann's official website.

Uploaded a bunch of great Magazine Covers.

Check em out under pictures.


Coming soon: A big update within the discographies. Keep your eyes open...

King Diamond has updated his blog with corrections to an article recently posted in a danish newspaper and some corrections regarding some recent rumours about Mercyful Fate.

He also mentions how 2009 is going to look regarding MF / KD releases.

From King Diamond's blog:

"So..... for this year, you will see a double DVD of old private King Diamond video recordings and a double DVD of old private Mercyful Fate video recordings which I am working on as we speak. Andy has finished remastering "The Graveyard", "Spider's Lullabye", "Voodoo", and "House of God", all of which should also be available this year. And then there is "the big surprise" (not little King babies with horns on their foreheads or Mercyful Fate writing new songs, at least not as we speak) but something that could lead to renegotiations of the Mercyful Fate recording deals. We'll see. Be patient.....

On a personal note, I do feel reasonably confident that the Mercyful Fate masterpiece will see the light of day.

Stay Heavy, you are the best!!

King Diamond"

Read the full blog here.


Check the King Diamond MySpace site at: http://www.myspace.com/kingdiamond

New section: Specials

In the Specials section you will find articles and stuff done by mfkdfaq.com.

Check out an article about the record label Night Of The Vinyl Dead.

Follow this link.

The Mercyful Fate / King Diamond F.A.Q. wishes you all a Merry Christmas amd a Happy New Year.

Check back after the hollidays for more updates. Coming up soon: More articles, pictures, setlists and other stuff you may have some interest in... Wait and see...

So take care and we'll be back later.

/Webmaster

Added some scans of old Magazine articles.

Chack them out under the pictures section.

More coming soon.

The Family trees have been updated some more...

The Mercyful Fate Family tree.

The King Diamond Family tree.

Check out the updated family trees.

Both the Mercyful Fate and King Diamond tree has been updated. But I still need help with lots of dates.

Please contact me if you feel like helping me out. Check the trees for what's missing. Any corrections are very welcome.

Click here for the Mercyful Fate tree and here for the King Diamond tree.

Check out Motörhead with Mikkey Dee on drums in Europe. The upcoming dates as of now:

December 2008

2008-12-05 Dresden, Germany
2008-12-06 Stuttgart, Germany
2008-12-07 Munich, Germany
2008-12-09 Copenhagen, Denmark
2008-12-10 Gothenburg, Sweden
2008-12-12 Karlstad, Sweden
2008-12-13 Stockholm, Sweden
2008-12-14 Oslo, Norway
2008-12-16 Helsinki, Finland

Summer 2009

2009-06-?? Sweden Rock Festival / Norje, Sweden
2009-07-02 B'est Fest / Bucharest, Romania

More will be added.

According to Massacre Records, the upcoming double-DVD set from King Diamond will be released January 30, 2009.

No more details available at this moment. Keep your eyes open for more info.

Check Massacre Records time schedule here.

Added a new section with pictures. Backstage Passes.

Various MF/KD backstage passes, with more coming soon.

Check it out here.


Keep your eyes open for more interesting pictures in the near future, thanks to Reinier Nissen.

Added a bunch of ticket stubs and some other stuff to the tour dates.

The following have been updated:

Mercyful Fate
1982-03-07 - Copenhagen, Denmark (Ticket)
1984-11-09 - New York, New York, USA (Pictures)
1984-11-24 - San Diego, California, USA (Flyer)
1984-12-27 - Essen, Germany (Ticket)
1996-11-01 - Cleveland, Ohio, USA (Ticket)
1998-08-20 - Cleveland, Ohio, USA (Ticket)
1999-07-10 - Milton Keynes, England (Bands)
1999-08-06 - Wacken, Germany (Bands)
1999-09-25 - San Francisco, California, USA (Flyer)

King Diamond
1986-05-22 - Nürnberg, Germany (Ticket)
1986-07-19 - Brooklyn, New York, USA (Ticket)
1987-07-13 - Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, USA (Ticket + Flyer)
1987-07-20 - Rochester, New York, USA (Ticket)
1987-07-26 - Detroit, Michigan, USA (Ticket)
1987-09-05 - Long Island, New York, USA (Ticket)
1987-11-27 - London, England (Ticket)
1988-09-02 - Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Ticket + Flyer + Opening act)
1989-11-12 - Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Ticket)
1990-02-11 - Oberhausen, Germany (Ticket)
1998-04-18 - San Francisco, California, USA (Ticket + Flyer + Opening act)
1998-05-26 - Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Ticket)
2000-08-19 - St. Petersburg, Florida, USA (Ticket)
2001-04-29 - Essen, Germany (Ticket)
2003-11-05 - Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Ticket)
2006-04-17 - Århus, Denmark (Ticket)
2007-10-17 - Århus, Denmark (Ticket)
2007-10-19 - Malmö, Sweden (Ticket)
2008-03-26 - Atlanta, Georgia, USA (Ticket)
2008-04-13 - St. Louis, Missouri, USA (Ticket)

Added an advert for the Don't Break The Oath album from 1984. Check it out under Pictures.

Also added a picture of a flyer from the 1990-02-13 King Diamond show in Bonn, Germany.

The line up for the upcoming debut album with Maryann Cotton is complete.


Vocal : Maryann Cotton
Guitar : Pete Blakk
Bass : Hal Patino
Drums : Snowy Shaw
Keyboard : Roberto Falcao

And special guest on guitar : Hank Shermann


Check out: Maryann Cotton MySpace Page

and the official website.

X-World/5, with Andy LaRocque, Magnus Rosén (ex-Hammerfall), Nils K. Rue (Pagan's Mind), Reeves Gabriels (Tin Machine, David Bowie) and Big Swede has entered Sonic Train Studios in Varberg, Sweden to record thier second album. According to Rosén, the album will contain "strange heavy metal with influences from the past to the future."


X-World/5's debut album, "New Universal Order", was released in North America on November 4th via Locomotive Records.

The first album was released in Europe in May through AFM Records.

15 new setlists added to the Tour Date-lists.

The following Mercyful Fate setlists have been added:

1994-07-02 - Roskilde, Denmark
1995-01-20 - Newark, New Jersey, USA
1996-08-24 - Sao Paulo, Brazil
1998-08-05 - Palo Alto, California, USA

And the King Diamond additions:

1986-04-20 - Eindhoven, Netherlands
1988-09-29 - Houston, Texas, USA
1989-11-02 - Flint, Michigan, USA
1990-02-17 - Tilburg, Netherlands
1990-03-03 - Barcelona, Spain
1990-03-04 - San Sebastian, Spain
1996-08-24 - Sao Paulo, Brazil
1998-05-21 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1998-05-23 - New York , New York, USA
2001-03-13 - St. Petersburg, Russia

According to Blabbermouth, Matt Thompson is working with Dan Spitz (previously in Anthrax) on a new project.

Matt has done some drum overdubs on the recordings and he will be the drummer on the upcoming tour.

The project also includes Peter Baltes (previously in Accept) on bass. Dan Spitz takes care of the guitars and vocals.

The date and venue for the very first Mercyful Fate show has been corrected with info from Hank Shermann.

The correct date for the first show is: 1981-09-06 (September 6, 1981). And the show was held at Taastrup Medborgerhus.

Thanks to Hank for the help.

Check the info here.

17 new Magazine covers added to the pictures section.

Among others a danish magazine from 1985 called Hot Rockin', a really old school fanzine, excellent.

Check out those great pictures here.

23 new setlists added to the King Diamond Tour Date-list.

Setlists was added to the following KD-dates:

1986-05-21 - Frankfurt, Germany
1986-05-24 - Berlin, Germany
1986-05-27 - Hamburg, Germany
1986-07-18 - Brooklyn, New York, USA
1986-07-19 - Brooklyn, New York, USA
1986-08-01 - Chicago, Illinois, USA
1986-08-08 - Seattle, Washington, USA
1986-08-16 - Reseda, California, USA
1986-08-21 - Austin, Texas, USA
1986-08-22 - San Antonio, Texas, USA
1986-08-30 - Brooklyn, New York, USA
1987-07-10 - Bay Shore (Long Island), New York, USA
1987-07-12 - Baltimore, Maryland, USA
1987-07-13 - Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, USA
1987-07-14 - Washington (Georgetown), DC, USA
1987-07-17 - Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
1987-07-24 - Chicago, Illinois, USA
1987-08-07 - Los Angeles, California, USA
1987-08-19 - Palmetto, Florida, USA
1987-08-28 - Brooklyn, New York, USA
1987-12-06 - Essen, Germany
1987-12-22 - Emden, Germany
1988-10-29 - Detroit, Michigan, USA

Added nine new dates to the Mercyful Fate 1996 North American Tour. Also added and corrected a couple of venues.

The newly added dates:

1996-10-19 - Old Bridge, New Jersey, USA
1996-10-22 - Springfield, Virginia, USA
1996-10-23 - Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA
1996-10-26 - Cohoes, New York, USA
1996-10-28 - Manhattan, New York, USA
1996-11-02 - Detroit, Michigan, USA
1996-11-07 - Mexico City, Mexico, USA
1996-11-08 - San Antonio, Texas, USA
1996-11-09 - Houston, Texas, USA

I'm always looking for scans of tickets, flyers, posters, pictures etc. from any Mercyful Fate or King Diamond show to complete the tour date-lists.

I'm especially looking for a bunch of venues for some dates that I don't have info on. Check this list at my Wanted-page.

I'm also looking to buy Magazines, old Tickets, Pictures, Posters etc. with Mercyful Fate or King Diamond.

If you have anything and wants to help out please contact me.

Added a bunch of scans of Advertisements.

Great pictures from various magazines.

Click here to look at the adverts.

Thirteen new Magazine covers added to the pictures section. Check 'em out here.

Three great pictures from Brats gig in Karlshamn, Sweden 1981-03-07 uploaded.

Thanks to Janne Stark and Kjell Jacobsson for these.



Also from the same show, the opening band Overdrive's setlist has been added.

Check these out here.

Eight nice pictures from the King Diamond show 1986-07-26 in Detroit, MI, USA uploaded.



During the beginning of this show, King's microphone is not working for the first try of "The Candle", so they have to restart the song from the beginning.

Check out the setlist and some nice pictures here.

Don't you find what you're looking for here on the site?

Check out the Table of Contents for a list of all the stuff here.

Feel free to mail the Webmaster or join the forum.

There will be tons of stuff coming up here in the near future, so keep your eyes open.

Things that will come soon:

• More tickets, posters and setlists.


• More magazine scans and other pictures.


• MF and KD related articles from magazines.


• More discography information and pictures.


• Member biographies and other related stuff.


• King Diamond Family Tree and an updated Mercyful Fate Tree.

The Bell Witch was released on vinyl by Night Of The Vinyl Dead on July 2008.

It's a limited edition etched vinyl, handnumbered 500 copies. The original CD was released by Metal Blade Records in 1994.

SIDE A
The Bell Witch
Is That You, Melissa
Curse of the Pharaohs (live)
Egypt (live)
Come to the Sabbath (live)
Black Funeral (live)

SIDE B
Etched side

Hank Shermann is currently working on his first solo album named "Hank Shermann's DEMONICA"....

This sounds like it's gonna be the most heavy stuff ever recorded by Hank.

For a little web-teaser, check out Hank's Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/hankshermann

Also check out Demonica's official Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/demonicaofficial

King Diamond joined Metallica onstage at the Ozzfest at Pizza Hut Park in Dallas, 2008-08-09. They performed a medley with Mercyful Fate classics.

You can buy a the a recording of this show at http://www.livemetallica.com/

Official Metallica.com footage of the performance:




King also appeared in the Dimebag tribute, performing "A New Level" (Pantera) with Max Cavalera, Scott Ian and Nick Bowcott: