King Diamond News

My friend Seth Sher , who's forgotten more about metal than I know, recently put me onto Vektor , a young Arizona band who call themselves "sci-fi thrash." Their new Black Future is spiky, proggy, and melodic, with a pell-mell energy that keeps the music from drifting to the noodly side of progressive.

Swedish melancholic metallers IN MOURNING have set "Monolith" as the title of their second full-length album, due in February 2010 via Pulverised Records .

The legendary King Diamond began this decade of career with an album that may not rank as high musically as his more renowned work such as ABIGAIL, THEM and CONSPIRACY, but of the entire lay of ghost yarns haunting Diamond's power metal odes, HOUSE OF GOD may yet be the most provocative.

Isn't it bizarre how an artist like King Diamond, once considered the most dangerous performer on the planet next to Mayhem, now comes through the current metal revival not only easier on the ears but less inherently evil? When you have Dimmu Borgir, Gorgoroth and an entire legion of Burzum followers setting the darker side of metal on a far more ...

Footage of legendary Canadian thrashers SACRIFICE performing the song "Re-Animation" on November 21, 2009 at t The Opera House in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with a special guest appearance by Glen Drover , can be viewed below.

Virginia's melodic/technical death metal band ARSIS has revealed the Mark Riddick artwork and track listing for the limited-edition iTunes / Nuclear Blast mailorder / vinyl version of "Starve For The Devil" , set to be released in North America on February 9, 2010.

Posted October 29, 2009, 1:05 p.m. "OOOOOHHH...It's Halloween!" --King Diamond, from "Halloween" on FATAL PORTRAIT.

The combination of Halloween and heavy metal is a beautiful marriage made in hell and when it comes down to it, a complete no-brainer. Since the early 1900s, an entire cottage industry has risen around the October 31 holiday.

Fan-filmed video footage of MOONSPELL 's October 17, 2009 performance at The Sterling Hotel in Allentown, Pennsylvania can be viewed below.

MusikUniverse.net conducted an interview with vocalist Fernando Ribeiro and drummer Miguel "Mike" Gaspar of Portuguese metallers MOONSPELL when the band played Foufounes Electriques in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on October 19, 2009.

All You Cannot Live Without 10.19.09: Extreme Music News Posted by Ben Czajkowski on 10.19.2009 John Cena ruins marriages, WWE new opening theme song.

With the recent release of their fourth studio album There Will Be Doom early last month on Century Media, Vancouver's true metal combo Three Inches Of Blood have finally made the album many of us have been waiting for with baited breath.

"Stronghold: Under Siege" , the new video from the Polish female-fronted "true heavy metal" act CRYSTAL VIPER , can be viewed below.

YouTube - King Diamond"Give Me Your Soul" >> Posted By fiftynine 3 hours, 31 minutes ago in Arts & Entertainment King Diamond;Give Me Your Soul... Interesting band...they go from eighty's rock style to modern metal all in the same song...Some pretty good riffage in here..and the video..again...interesting :-) Turn it up... Enjoy.

All You Cannot Live Without 10.12.09: No Harmonica Here! Posted by Ben Czajkowski on 10.12.2009 Mudvayne releases information and single from another new album.

In the November issue of Decibel , there's a feature with Baroness where drummer Allen Blickle says: I have no idea how the hell we ended up playing this kind of music.

Philadelphia-based metal band SINGLE BULLET THEORY has announced the addition of Brazilian drummer Acacio Carvalho to the group's ranks.

Norwegian melodic metal band PICTURES OF PAIN has tapped KING DIAMOND guitarist Andy La Rocque to master the group's recently recorded material at his Sonic Train studios in Varberg, Sweden.

Swedish melodic death metallers THE COLD EXISTENCE have announced the addition of guitarist Robin Lindstrom to the group's ranks.

Swedish black metallers RIMFROST will release their second album, "Veraldar Nagli" , on November 16 in Europe and January 12 in the U.S. via Season of Mist 's Underground Activists division.