Phil-great info! Thanks! Sarah

-- mercyfulfate66 <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Renzo van Soelen, the webmaster of KING DIAMOND's official web site,
Coven Worldwide, has issued the following update:

"I just got off the phone with King. We talked about two hours and he
gave me some very exclusive info about the forthcoming KING DIAMOND
CD. King told me he had just finished recording the vocals which he
had been doing for the last four weeks about six hours a day.

"In the next three weeks King and Andy [La Rocque, guitar] will be
mixing and mastering the album (starting Monday, March 5).

"Is this better than 'The Puppet Master', I asked him. King started
laughing and explained it as follows: 'We tried to get our driver's
license for twenty years and now we finally got it. We passed the
test! It's the best album ever, definitely — there is no doubt about
that, for sure. Even the work mix sounds better than any album yet.
The music and story are great. I am sure these are my best vocals
yet. Andy said to me that he not played solos like this since 'The
Eye'. Mike [Wead, guitar] told me he has never been so inspired to do
solos as on this album. And, yes, Livia is on the album too!'

"King said to me: 'I guarantee you this is the best album yet — I am
positive about it. It's more KING DIAMOND [than] there [has] ever
been. It has the best KING DIAMOND top class through the whole album.
The story is very dark, perhaps one of the darkest I have ever done.'

"King mentioned the intro to the album is a 'real' intro again, like
where Midnight (from 'The Puppet Master') was more of a pre-song .

"Want to get a little taste of what you might expect from the lyrics?
Here you go:
'Me and my black cat Magic, the beautiful house on Never Ending Hill,
the little girl in the bloody dress and her dead little brother, the
dark, the floating head woman, shapes of black and YOU.'

"The cover represents a little girl standing on a winding stairs in a
white dress covered with blood (which actually is the blood from her
little brother). I have seen the unfinished cover and I'll just know
you're gonna love it! King also said that the front cover will look
like a mirror.

"The album will probably be released late June/beginning of July.
Nothing is certain yet but it looks that way."

The album, which will be "Gimme Your Soul … Please", will contain the
following 13 tracks:

01. The Dead (King)
02. Never Ending Hill (Andy)
03. Is Anybody Here? (King)
04. Black of Night (Andy)
05. Mirror, Mirror (King)
06. The Cellar (Andy)
07. Pictures in Red (Andy)
08. Gimme Your Soul (King)
09. The Floating Head (Andy)
10. Cold as Ice (King)
11. Shapes of Black (King)
12. The Girl in The Bloody Dress (King)
13. Moving On (King)

Revolver magazine recently reported that KING DIAMOND's new CD was
inspired by a painting called "My Mother's Eyes" which the band's
distributor in Denmark stumbled across while surfing the Net (and
which Diamond has since bought for the new CD cover). The more
Diamond looked at the image of a battered blond girl with blood
covering her white dress, holding out palms affixed with protruding
eyeballs, the more it captivated and inspired him. "I can feel the
energy of the front cover in all the songs we wrote, and it will
definitely affect my lyrics," he promised.

Diamond wrote the music for the new album from December 2005 through
February 2006, then recorded the basic tracks in his basement.

"It classes over anything I've ever done," Diamond beamed. "The
arrangements are more intricate, the production is better, and for
the parts where there are violins, it sounds like we hired the Royal
Philharmonic. As long as I don't fuck up the vocals, this should be
our best record."

KING DIAMOND in 2005 completed a U.S. tour with NILE, BEHEMOTH and
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER. A live CD, "Deadly Lullabyes Live", was
issued in 2004.

KING DIAMOND current lineup:

King Diamond - Vocals
Andy La Rocque - Guitar
Mike Wead - Guitar
Hal Patino - Bass
Matt Thompson - Drums

Stay Heavy!
Phil




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