#271 - KING DIAMOND Metal Master of the Macabre

Metal Nerdery Podcast

“Are you comparing King Diamond to KISS!?”

KING DIAMOND is the undisputed champion of all things dark & creepy that scarify & terrify throughout the metal multiverse. In our humble opinion, The King should be deemed the official ambassador of Halloween.

Through the use of the creative forces granted unto him by his Scandinavian homeland (and perhaps with a little supernatural assistance for added evilocity), The KING has been unleashing terrifying tales of gothic horror backed by a progressive power metal soundtrack that have been scaring the Hell out of audiences for nearly four decades (even longer if you count his time in Mercyful Fate). There can be no doubt that he is THE premier horror metal storyteller of all time, “The KING” if you will.

When in doubt, always remember The King Diamond Paradox:

“King Diamond IS Mercyful Fate AND Mercyful Fate IS King Diamond!!!”

Get ready for a bit of trivia regarding the music video for “The Family Ghost” and find out which former heavy metal haunt in Atlanta was legitimately (actually) haunted. Understand that it’s always better to go with “a super smart 6 than an ultra dumb 9” because without adequate brainpower, there’s “no bone movies” (especially if she insists on “using her teeth every time”). Discover “the worst part about being married”, pay tribute to the “chili dog queen” and JOIN US for a trip through the gruesome tales of twisted horror from the mind of Hvidovre, Denmark’s metal master of the macabre, KING DIAMOND.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): #herewego / “It always starts with…”/ “Remember that band #TNT…#10000LoversInOne …”/ “…in one…”/ #checkpoint / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised ***/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST DEEP WITHIN THE BUNKERPOON DUNGEON!!!*** / “I was told that’s actually a genius idea…”/ “You could just not drink Monday through Friday…”/ #GregorianCalendar / “He worked Saturday…Sunday He took the day off…”/ #MetalNerderyPodcast #HeadCageAlbumDive #Anniversary / #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode #albumcover #ThreeHeadedMonster #ImperialRedAle / “It’s carpet…”/ #eightpointonepercentABV / “#RedStripe is my favorite beer…”/ “That’s like having a girlfriend that just insists on using her teeth…”

(06:13): “What’s been going on, fellas?” / “They NEVER, NEVER flood, they NEVER get rain like that…” / #NorthCarolina #HurricaneHelene #Flooding #HAARP #suddenlyscience / “Call it a #DEW if you want to…”/ “They Maui’d it…”/ #onmicburp / “How’d you figure it out?”/ “They are pure corn syrup…”/ #candycornASMR / “Mark his words…and his time…”/ “Did y’all fist…after?” / #youvegottafist / “We’ve been on FIRE lately!!!” / #comedygoldASMR / ***PATREON SHOUTOUT*** / ***You can JOIN US on #Patreon at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast and you’ll instantly become a #poonmagnet!!!*** / “It’s not part of their name, but we recognize them that way…”/ #HailAndThankYou / “Don’t say dropped…”/ #correspondancees ***YOU CAN CHECK US OUT ON THE #SOCIALMEDIA AT #METALNERDERYPODCAST, YOU CAN EMAIL US AT [e-mail] OR YOU CAN GIVE US A CALL AND LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / #scoobitabosh / “…and play.”/ #BigMac #EmberingEffigy #metalsubgenresASMR #StonerDoom / “I didn’t think of it that way…” / “I always thought #sludgemetal was like #DOWN and #COC but I could be wrong…”

(15:42): “Man, I do…”/ #RussellsReflectionsASMR / “I had 2 salty dogs before the show…”/ #markthetime / “He just rips peoples faces apart…”/ “Sounds like the #JohnWick of #UFCFighters…”/ #asstech? or #Aztec? / “Saw the new #SalemsLot remake…”/ “Oh, I’ve been #earreading and now I’m on #NothingButAGoodTime …”/ #hairmetal #eightieshairmetalstory / “That was a pretty good #ZakkWylde impression…”/ “You know what’s weird, dude?” / #battleaxeASMR / “Mopple the Hoot…”/ “They keep getting told they’re dinosaur music…”/ #MTV / “That was their viral, in the old days…”/ #wellplayyourshittah / #DreamTheater ***New Album: #Parasomnia in Feb. 2025!!!*** / #AMillionViewsInOneDay NIGHT TERROR / “It’s very Slayer…”/ “It’s metal porn…”/ “Nah, they’ve got some hooks, dude…”/ “Back to the cheesy book I’m reading…”/ “Let me guess, named for #cocaine?”/ “I’ll out-guitar you, bro…I can sweep faster than you…”/ “Did you ever hear that story?” / “We should be saving this gold for #TheChronicles …I kinda thought Bill wanted to do a #KISS #InsideTheMetal …”

(31:31): #TheDocket / “October transforms to Halloween on October 1st …”/ METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: KING DIAMOND – INSIDE THE METAL / “I’m gonna sell ‘em individually…”/ #analbraid / A little backstory regarding our history with #KingDiamond from back in the day / #KingDiamondIsMercyfulFate #MercyfulFateIsKingDiamond / #MattsMiddleSchoolReflectionsASMR / “I bet she’s into anal…”/ Fatal Portrait (1986) / THE CANDLE #killeropener / “Nothing screams Halloween like creepy #pipeorgan music…”/ “Dearly beloved…”/ LURKING IN THE DARK

(40:00): “There’s not been a lot of #bassplayerabuse over the last few episodes…”/ “We should watch a movie…”/ Abigail (1987) / “That’s actually more thrashy…”/ ***GO CHECK OUT OUR #ABIGAIL AND #THEM ALBUM DIVES, AS WELL AS OUR #MERCYFULFATE EPISODE*** / This #onmicburp brought to you by #Culvers / THE 7TH DAY OF JULY 1777 #softintro / “This is one of my Top 20 all time albums…”/ “If you could only have ONE album, what would it be?”/ “Dude, that was brutal…”/ “Never picked this up until literally yesterday…if you watch the video, he’s inside the #pentagram …”/ “Them” (1988) / “It’s pretty black and white…”/ “It’s off-putting for sure…” / “Are you comparing #KingDiamond to #KISS !?”/ “His songs are…horror stories…”/ “Did you ever hear the story about his haunted apartment in Denmark?” / #allegedly / “That would be eerie…”/ #HauntedBunkerpoon / TWILIGHT SYMPHONY / “It’s the super #AJFA treatment…it’s got no bottom…”/ “He’s got hooks…”/ “If this had Abigail’s production…”/ Conspiracy (1989) / AKA Part II of “Them” / SLEEPLESS NIGHTS / ***NOTE: Mikkey Dee actually did play drums on Conspiracy, NOT Snowy Shaw***/ “Would you wanna have a graveyard in your backyard?”

(54:39): The Eye (1990) / “Ooh, wow…the plot…”/ ***NOTE: Remember, almost every King Diamond album is a complete story aka #conceptalbum *** / “Killer opener has #allthecokelines …”/ EYE OF THE WITCH / “What’s the #cokelinerunnerup for this?” / “Now, every now and then…if they didn’t have the creepy organ…and if it was a hair metal singer…”/ “I’m still not sure what the fuck they (#Ghost) are…”/ 1642 IMPRISONMENT / “I kinda feel like that whole area influences each other…”/ The Spider’s Lullabye (1995) / “They freak you out with their freaked outness…”/ “They come through the drains…”/ “It’s got a pretty substantial coke line inventory…I’m feeling groovy…just a touch of goodness…”/ #PreChroniclesASMR / FROM THE OTHER SIDE / “I don’t think I’ve ever said that…”/ “Just so you know…”/ “I think you need to have it with you…you can’t say locked and loaded…”/ “Wouldn’t that be cool…can you imagine King Diamond in a cowboy hat!?” / THE SPIDER’S LULLABYE / “That’s fucking heavy…”/ “Soundtrack to your death…”/ ***Let the record show…***

(1:07:46): The Graveyard (1996) / “I like the purple…the darker purple…the indigo, violet, bluish purple…”/ #monochrome / “I know what she feels like now…”/ “Pretty much every song on here has #allthecokelines …”/ THE GRAVEYARD & BLACK HILL SANITARIUM / “If I start turning blue, you know what to do…a handy would probably work…”/ “What are you doing?”/ “Now this one sounds like #AJFA…”/ TRICK OR TREAT #yeahyeah / #RussellsReflectionsNonSequiturASMR / “That’s just #squirting for men…”/ Voodoo (1998) / “If he wrote a horror novel, I’ll bet it would be awesome…”/ “LOA” HOUSE / “That’s like old school King right there…”/ VOODOO / “Did you just refer to me as The White Devil?” / #AceVenturaASMR / “They’re eating the dogs…” / “The voodoo drums…”

(1:22:22): “This is an interesting title…”/ House Of God (2000) / “That was a joke, btw…”/ “I found out…if she falls asleep after sex AND she snores…”/ “Oh you’re talking about someone I know…”/ “WTF is wrong with you, dude?” / #chilidogqueen / #LMAO / “Dude, that’s his line…”/ FOLLOW THE WOLF / “Prog plus power metal…”/ HOUSE OF GOD / “Dude, you drive a Nigerian Mustang, please shut up…”/ BLACK DEVIL / “Risin’ up…”/ “Hey little sister…”/ Abigail II: The Revenge (2002) / “Fifteen years later…”/ “There’s no end, dude…”/ THE STORM (“Thunder is the sound of lightning…”) / “That’s power metal…”/ MOMMY / “That makes my throat hurt when he sings like that…”

(1:35:42): The Puppet Master (2003) / “You make-a movie?”/ “All my problems are up here, not down there…”/ “She has a friend that listens to us…”/ “So she ‘dates’ him when he comes to town…so basically I need somebody to ‘date’…it’s called #FWB or a #ServiceAgreement …”/ THE PUPPET MASTER (“This almost sounds like #Dethklok somehow…”) / “You make-a movie…”/ #Shhhhhh / “The hottest girl on planet earth…if she’s not got some brainpower going on… it’s #nobonemovies …”/ “I’d rather go with a super smart 6 than an ultra dumb 9…”/ BLUE EYES (#perfecttiming #onmicburpASMR) / “We’ve reached the end of the road…” / “It’s early in the schedule I believe…btw, do you say schedule or schedule?” / #StewieASMR / “With her hair up like that, her nails should be like 8 feet long…”/ “I gotta be careful how I say this…”/ “The worst part about being married…”/ #blackisslimming / “Who was who?”/ “I just painted a very bad picture…”/ Give Me Your Soul…Please (2007) / “The cokeline inventory has dropped precipitously…”/ GIVE ME YOUR SOUL / “I’m not sure how I feel about it…”/ The Institute (TBA – 2025) / “That means tits, butts, and asshole…”/ “He did that song with #Volbeat … Did y’all ever hear that?” / ROOM 24 / “Dear King Diamond…”/ #finmark / “What’s a Vol?” / “We can’t end on a Volbeat song…”/ MASQUERADE OF MADNESS / “I kinda feel like you need the album art and the story…it’s like talking about 4 pages out of The Stand or something…”/ #TheDarkTower ties into all the other ones / “Dude, you did a twofer…can you do it again?”/ “Apparently the #OldMasquerade in Atlanta was (very) haunted…” / “Two 2 hour episodes, back to back…”/ “Ohhh…The Chamber…”/ “We’re like right there…” / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! GO SEE KING DIAMOND ON TOUR WITH OVERKILL!!! / #untilthenext #nerdout #outroreel