!NEWS UPDATE!
07/07/03

KING DIAMOND/ENTOMBED!!!

KING DIAMOND has officially confirmed plans to embark on a North American tour in the fall, w/ENTOMBED opening. "Tour booking is currently in progress, no dates are firm yet," writes KING's manager Ole Bang on the group's official web site. "It is the plan that KING will bring Swedish act ENTOMBED out as opening band, plus at least one more band which has not been confirmed yet. Tour is scheduled to start on the west coast in late October."

The trek, which is set to kick off on October 20, and will be sponsored by Metal Maniacs magazine. Thats one kick ass Metal Rag!
KING DIAMOND are currently mixing their new album, "The Puppet Master", for a fall release through Metal Blade Records. ENTOMBED's latest CD, "Inferno", has just been released domestically through Koch Records.

Thanks for the news update Queen Diamond

!NEWS UPDATE!
04/16/03

Puppet Master Update!

Update from KING DIAMOND on new album The Puppet Master!!! "So far all the basic tracks have been recorded including the rhythm guitars, bass guitars, drums, and keyboards. We will start working on vocals and lead guitars next and then we will begin to mix everything together starting around June 2003. After the mixing is done we will have someone out to videotape me telling the story of The Puppet Master for bonus material on the second disc. We will also approach our band pictures a little different this time around and I think people are really going to love it. It will definitely be different and twisted! As far as the music goes, everything has been going very well and it all sounds killer! It just has such an awesome sound and it is everything I expected and then some. The few people that have heard it so far, and are also very familiar with all the past albums, think it's some of the best material to date. You're really gonna love this stuff!!!"

Thanks for the news update Queen Diamond

!NEWS UPDATE!
03/31/03

Puppet Master to have DVD

Andy LaRoque is back from his home in Sweden after finishing recording his tracks for the new King Diamond album titled "The Puppet Master". The new album due for release in late October will have a bonus DVD or CDR of King Diamond telling the story of The Puppet Master.As King describes it this album is going to make the hairs stand upon the back of listeners neck. "The rules of censorship are beingthrown out the window... this is going to be the rawest story/album we have ever done." King was also quick to point out that "if you are into horror you're definitely going to get it with this album!"

!NEWS UPDATE!
03/23/03

I would like to invite you all to join and use The King Diamond Homepage and E-mail Service

This is the first of many new Heavy Metal Homepages being brought to you by The United States Coven. You will find just about every King Diamond related link on the internet. As well as links to all the King's favorite things. All the best heavy metal news, tour dates and links. As well as links to Hotmail.com, Yahoo.com, Yahoo mail, Msn.com, AltaVista.com and Overture.com to give you ease access to your E-Mail service and favorite Search Engines.

There are 13 diffrent versions of the homepage, 6 for 1024X768 6 for 800X600 and 1 very basic version for slow speed connections(there will be atleast 9 more version online within the next few months)So you can choose your favorite layout and click the "set as my homepage" button and your ready to explore all that is the King!

Future Metal Homepages will include OZZY, DISTURBED, SLAYER, DIO and many more.

!NEWS UPDATE!
01/30/03

Best albums 2002 voted by Metallion listeners:

World:
1.Immortal-"Sons of Northern Darkness"
2.Manowar-"Warriors of the World"
3.Satyricon-"Volcano"
4.King Diamond-"Abigail II"
5.Arcturus-"The Sham Mirrors"

Those of you who want more information go towww.metal.ee/metallion

!NEWS UPDATE!
01/29/03

News from the CWW is that King has wrote 9 songs and Andy contributed 3 songs for The Puppet Master. The bad news is that there doesnt appear to be a typical intro but an intro 2 minutes song entitled "THE SAILOR" which ends with the words "Let The Show Begin" that leads into the first song entitled "THE PUPPET MASTER".

King said. "There will also a very sad sad song (probably entitled "SO SAD") which has very intense guitar playing on it."

Go to the Coven World Wide for more details on the new album.

!NEWS UPDATE!
01/29/03

Heres the FINAL track listing for the upcoming The Heart Of Roadrunner Records compilation. It is as follows:

1. Sepultura - Roots Bloody Roots
2. Slipknot - Spit It Out (Stamp You Out Mix)*
3. Killswitch Engage - In The Unblind*
4. Fear Factory - Replica
5. Spineshank - The Height Of Callousness
6. Life Of Agony - Through And Through
7. Stone Sour - Rules Of Evidence*
8. Coal Chamber - Loco
9. Soulfly - Possibility Of Life's Destruction*
10. Brujeria - Brujerizmo
11. Type O Negative - Christian Woman (Edit)
12. Ill Nino - Unreal (Reborn Mix)*
13. Glassjaw - Modern Love Story*
14. Obituary - The End Complete
15. King Diamond - Abigail
16. Nailbomb - Wasting Away
17. Murderdolls - Crash Crash*
18. Deicide - Dead By Dawn
19. Machine Head - Negative Creep*
20. Chimaira - Fascination Street*

* prev. unreleased songs

!NEWS UPDATE!
11/17/02

"From now until the end of October, we will be writing all the new music," Diamond reveals. "During November and December, I will be writing the lyrics (the story is already done). "Then I will, for the first time, do demo vocals at my house, especially for [bassist] Hal Patino's sake, so that he has the vocal melodies to work his bass lines in and out of. Hal's style is to follow nothing and everything at the same time. He's all over the place without ever being in the wrong place. He is definitely my personal favorite bass player.

"Mid-February, we ship half of Andy's studio to Dallas, to be set up in my house, including his mobile ProTools system, and a bunch of outboard gear etc. etc. It's all going to be the same kind of top-quality gear that we are used to work with.

"So my house is where the actual recording process will start. We will record all rhythm guitars, bass guitars, most keyboards and possibly most of the harmony guitars there, too. These things will be mixed into a rough mix, which Andy and I will bring to a studio here in Dallas where Matt [Thompson] will be recording all of his drum tracks. Then Andy and I will do another rough mix of everything that's been recorded so far. Several copies will be made of this. Andy will bring a copy with him back to Sweden, and I will bring a copy of the rough mixes to a studio here in Dallas to record the vocals. When Andy and [guitarist] Mike [Wead] are done with their solos in Sweden, and I am done with the vocals, then Andy comes back to Dallas, where he and I will be mixing the album and mastering it too. We hope to be able to send the finished master tapes to the record labels before the summer, so we can have it released just before Halloween next year.

Thank You QueenDiamond for the ^above^ update to the following news artical.

!NEWS UPDATE!
9/23/02
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Well thanks to all the MP3 downloading thats going on out there king has fallen on hard times! But unlike many who would give up in times of such adversity King fights on! He has recently signed with Massacre Records for thier European sales and tours. MetalBlade for the U.S. and Canada. Kings lawyer Ron Bienstock continues to set up deals for the territories of Japan, South America, Australia and Asia. King said that while they were in the studio recording Abigail 2 the industry was taking a nose dive. He said that the industry is now losing 45% of thier sales to downloading and homeburning of MP3's.

Metalblade would have to take a loss on all thier bands album sales to keep them all on board so they had no choice but to cut their support for the Abigail 2 tour and on what they could offer King to record His next album with.

The simple and sad truth is that if everyone continues to download thier favorite bands music and not buy the albums and if websites keep offering these ILLEGAL MP3's and BOOTLEG CD's and BOOTLEG VIDEO's Then they will surly also kill thier favorite bands!

To keep the quality of the recordings up to Kings high standard while spending less money he will 1st not work with an outside producer King said "Andy, Mike and myself have been involved with so many productions that we no longer need the help of a producer or co-producer". 2nd they will ship half of Andys studio to Kings home in Dallas to record part of the new cd and then they well do the rest at Andys studio (Los Angered Recording) in Sweden.

In other news King is in serious talks with both Metalblade and Massacre about recording the next tour for a double live album, which will be both The Puppet Master and Abigail 2 with a few of the classic King songs thrown in for good measure.

Massacre has shown great interest in a DVD from that same tour, King Say "We'll see, we are difinitely going to be fighting for that.

!NEWS UPDATE!
4/21/02

KING DIAMOND are still officially signed to Metal Blade Records, despite recent rumors indicating that the company and the band have parted ways. However, according to manager Ole Bang, the current running agreement is approaching the date of the option for a new recording, and I have no info to the effect whether Metal Blade will take their option or not.

Rumors of a split between KING DIAMOND and Metal Blade have been running rampant since frontman and band namesake King Diamond publicly expressed his displeasure with the amount of tour support extended to the band in order to enable them to embark on the road to promote the band's recently-issued Abigail II: The Revenge CD.

There are no plans at all at the moment but this doesn't mean that there will not be a tour, Bang told BLABBERMOUTH.NET. Anything could happen.

If Metal Blade Records chooses not to exercise its contractual option to renew KING DIAMOND's agreement for another album, it will mark the end of a four-album collaboration that began with 1995's Spider's Lullabye. King Diamond's other band, MERCYFUL FATE, parted ways with Metal Blade in January after recording five albums for the label.

!NEWS UPDATE!
1/03/02

~Tour News~

The tour for Abigail 2 are currently
on hold until agreements can be reached with Metalblade.

!NEWS UPDATE!
11/03/01

Happy Birthday to Michael Denner!He's birthdays November the 5th, He will be 43 years old

Despite strong rumours, it would seem that legendary Danish metalers Mercyful Fate are alive and kicking. According to vocalist King Diamond, the band have even been working on new material, although given Kings commitment to his solo career for the first part of 2002, it may be some while before the Fate are reunited.

The Tab Crypt
has added solos to many songs so check it out!

!NEWS UPDATE!
10/25/01
Check out The Darkness Covens Tribute for
"Abigail II -The Revenge"

~Song list~
~The Basic Storyline~

AUG. 2001

METAL BLADE Records has said the European release date of "Abigail Part 2 : The Revenge" will be a little later then the expected halloween release date. the exact date is still unknown possibly early Jan, 2002. It will be released on CD and LP.

JULY 2001

METAL BLADE Records has set the date for the European release "Abigail Part 2 : The Revenge" It should hit the stores on October 29th 2001. It will be released on CD and LP.

NEW release 'Nightmare in the 90's'. A compilation of his greatest hits from the 90's

APRIL 2001

The Three Newest Songs Titles on the ABIGAIL II CD Are-

Slippery Stairs

Revenge Is Sweet

Dinner For Two

FEB 2001

THE WORD IS OUT ON THE NEXT KING DIAMOND CD!
IT LOOKS LIKE KING IS GOING TO DO A SEQUEL TO HIS CLASSIC ALBUM "ABIGAIL"! WHICH I THINK IS GREAT NEWS, I LOVED THE STORYLINE AND I'M SURE THAT KING WILL DO HIS MAGIC ONCE AGAIN AND A NEW MASTERPIECE WELL BE BORN!

TAKEN FROM RECENT INTERVIEW
IN KINGS OWN WORDS

There’s a lot of things happening right now with the King Diamond band. We’ve had a lot of lineup changes lately. It’s Andy LaRocque and then Mike Wead of Mercyful Fate. Hal Patino is playing bass, they guy from Them and Conspiracy. He’s totally over the problems he had. We have a drummer, Matt Thompson, who can play whatever we need him to play. He’s such a great drummer. The other guys, I won’t say why they’re out, it was all for family related reasons I totally respect. But we haven’t had the kind of drummer we needed and we have it now. That has made it possible for us to write the way we want again. After House of God, I talked to Andy and said we have to get a drummer like Mikkey Dee! We couldn’t write what we wanted to because he could just not play it. But now we can. And on the 15th of May we go in to record the new album. And what we’re doing this time is what we’ve wanted to do for a long time, the followup to Abigail. We’re doing Abigail part two, The Revenge is what we’ll be calling it and it should be out right before Halloween, and then we’ll tour the US right on top of that. It’ll be the Abigail story live so we’ll be playing almost everything off the first one and everything off the new one.

OLD NEWS