RIP Timi Hansen :(
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 November 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
Very sad. Hansen anchored two of the most ridiculously talented metal bands of our generation, Fate and King Diamond's band circa 1987.
― A. Begrand, Monday, 4 November 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
King just posted a very touching tribute message to him on FB.
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 November 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link
I went from loving Dead Again to hating it and haven't played it since 1999.
Threw it on today.... it's actually quite good! Not really any all-time classics on it, but mega consistent.
"Banshee" is my fav
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Monday, 8 March 2021 22:07 (three years ago) link
cannot stop listening to them lately. I remember loving the last album, 9, when it came out, then later souring on it when I felt it was too 'modernized trend hopping" MF. I listened to it again last night and I don't think that's fair.
there's a LITTLE bit of that in "Sold My Soul", and the song structures are mega-simplified, but they'd even done that on Time with much success. there's definitely some really good material on there, like "Last Rites", "Burn in Hell", "Church of St Anne". some forgettable, but it's listenable!
Into the Unknown is the one I barely know whatsoever. It was actually the album that delayed my MF-dom by 3 years, because I had gotten excited by the MF music I heard them play on Beavis and Butthead....only to hear the opening track be a Satanic invocation ("our father, who art in Hell!"), and me being a Fundamentalist, that snapped the door shut.
I don't think a niche thread is worth it, but what's everybody's POV for Mercyful Fate?
Mine is...
"Evil""Bell Witch""A Dangerous Meeting""The Oath""Nightmare Be Thy Name"
Don't Break the Oath MOSTLY works as a continuous album for me, but those two tracks mentioned are ones I can listen standalone.
I do love Melissa a lot but I wanted to be inclusive of other albums.
― "Salvation Army FUCK!" (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 March 2021 14:53 (three years ago) link
I WAS BORN ON THE CEMETERYUNDER THE SIGN OF THE MOOOOOOOOON
― brimstead, Saturday, 8 May 2021 00:57 (three years ago) link
Best song ever. I can never grow tired of discussing Fate
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Saturday, 8 May 2021 00:58 (three years ago) link
yeah I just got the CD reissues from last year and they’re totally kicking my ass.
― brimstead, Saturday, 8 May 2021 01:06 (three years ago) link
OH, THEY SHOULD HAVE KNOWNNOT TO PLAY WITH THE POWERS OF HELL
― pomenitul, Saturday, 8 May 2021 01:19 (three years ago) link
Quoth some RYM rando:
Half a star lower than it deserves due to insanely evil lyrics, espicially off of "The Oath", which is obviously the worst track off the album cause of the evil lyrics, but still pretty great album overall.
WTF???
― pomenitul, Saturday, 8 May 2021 01:24 (three years ago) link
Can't believe a metal fan had silly opinions
― Chickpeas, Scamps and Beeves (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 8 May 2021 01:25 (three years ago) link
Ok but you gotta admit that a metal fan docking off a star because the lyrics are too 'insanely evil' is something else.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 8 May 2021 01:27 (three years ago) link
*half a star
lol the evil lyrics are one of the selling points.
I FORBID THEE ENTRANCE HEREEE, YOU STAND ON HALLOWED GROUNNNNDD
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Saturday, 8 May 2021 02:56 (three years ago) link
I once saw a RYM reviewer downgrade an album because the lyrics scared him. It wasn't even metal or sinister at all (Cairo - Conflict & Dreams). Review is gone now.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 8 May 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
THE DUDE HAS ACTUAL BONES ON HIS MIC STAND YOU GOTTA EMBRACE THE GLORIOUS SATANIC EVIL! HOWL LIKE A WOLF AND A WITCH WILL OPEN THE DOOR!!
― brimstead, Saturday, 8 May 2021 23:34 (three years ago) link
This is how the boomers must have felt when people started docking points for too many guitar solos.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 9 May 2021 10:34 (three years ago) link
excessive guitar solos + micstand bones-level evil = my shit
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 9 May 2021 12:50 (three years ago) link
Eh, I knew Christian kids in the 80s and 90s who loved the sound of Led Zeppelin or Marilyn Manson but were terrified of the occult or Satanic content. There's a reason Christian rock existed. Really don't think it's generational. If anything, I imagine it's less common now.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Sunday, 9 May 2021 12:59 (three years ago) link
Lol Marilyn Manson basically tore my church apart. The youth group leader demanded one of our members "break" their Manson CD when she found out she owned one. They did!
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Sunday, 9 May 2021 14:18 (three years ago) link
One of those rare occasions where I fully stand behind the church.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 9 May 2021 15:29 (three years ago) link
there's like a live stream going on about the show in Berlin tonight?
https://www.twitch.tv/kingdiamondofficial
― StanM, Tuesday, 14 June 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
They sound great in the new live clips coming out.
Wish I could go to the Norway date (with Candlemass, Tribulation, and Unto Others)
― jmm, Tuesday, 14 June 2022 23:52 (one year ago) link
holy fuck the new song whips ASS.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 00:42 (one year ago) link
I gotta make it to Vegas to see em dammit
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 00:57 (one year ago) link
I have to work on the 19th but I had been considering it before that got confirmed
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 00:59 (one year ago) link
Haha, King's Twitch emotes are awesome
― jmm, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 01:11 (one year ago) link
https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/emoticons/v2/emotesv2_23bbdd5ae02945dba650f08700fd255c/default/dark/2.0
― jmm, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 01:12 (one year ago) link
US Tour announced!!!
with KREATOR.
10/25/2022 Dallas, TX – The Factory10/27/2022 Phoenix, AZ – Arizona Financial Theatre10/29/2022 Inglewood, CA – Youtube Theater10/30/2022 Wheatland, CA – Hard Rock Live Sacramento11/01/2022 Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium11/03/2022 Gary, IN – Hard Rock Casino Northern Indiana11/04/2022 Cincinnati, OH – The Andrew J. Brady Music Center11/05/2022 Detroit, MI – Masonic11/08/2022 Silver Spring, MD – The Fillmore Silver Spring11/10/2022 Brooklyn, NY – Kings Theater11/11/2022 Laval, QC – Place Bell11/13/2022 Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall At Fenway11/14/2022 Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore Philadelphia11/16/2022 Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle
― Mr Haaland's Opus (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 14:36 (one year ago) link
DON'T TOUCHNEVER EVER STEAL
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 November 2022 05:03 (one year ago) link
otm
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 10 November 2022 07:33 (one year ago) link
Under 90 minutes til showtime and I can't believe this is finally happening.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 22:36 (one year ago) link
My life is complete
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 November 2022 04:15 (one year ago) link