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So a rumour just started that King Diamond will be in South America in December...that's one item I never thought I'd cross off my bucket list!!!

 

Hopefully you'll get to see him. After his heart operation I didn't think I would ever get the chance but was able to see him two years ago. I still haven't shaken all the evil off of me yet.

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I got into his music around '94 or '95. I had always heard about Mercyful Fate and his solo career through reading metal magazines, but I never really got around to getting any of the music...then I happened to decide to buy the cassette of IN THE SHADOWS...been a fan ever since!
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Seeing comments making fun of his voice or how he looked in the 80s reminds me how much I hate metal elitists.

 

If someone makes fun of King's voice and look then they are in no way a metal elitist. Metal elitists usually love King.

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Seeing comments making fun of his voice or how he looked in the 80s reminds me how much I hate metal elitists.

 

If someone makes fun of King's voice and look then they are in no way a metal elitist. Metal elitists usually love King.

 

I dont know man, it does seem very "metal elitist" to dismiss King Diamond because they felt that The Family Ghost was too "hair metal", considering the fact that metal elitists have a notorious hateboner for hair metal.

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Seeing comments making fun of his voice or how he looked in the 80s reminds me how much I hate metal elitists.

 

If someone makes fun of King's voice and look then they are in no way a metal elitist. Metal elitists usually love King.

 

I dont know man, it does seem very "metal elitist" to dismiss King Diamond because they felt that The Family Ghost was too "hair metal", considering the fact that metal elitists have a notorious hateboner for hair metal.

 

How the hell is Family Ghost hair metal? Where are you even getting that from?

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Seeing comments making fun of his voice or how he looked in the 80s reminds me how much I hate metal elitists.

 

If someone makes fun of King's voice and look then they are in no way a metal elitist. Metal elitists usually love King.

 

I dont know man, it does seem very "metal elitist" to dismiss King Diamond because they felt that The Family Ghost was too "hair metal", considering the fact that metal elitists have a notorious hateboner for hair metal.

 

How the hell is Family Ghost hair metal? Where are you even getting that from?

 

Apparently a bunch of commenters thought that the outfits that the members of his band in that time period wore were too "Bon jovi" for music like King's. The song itself is so far away from hair metal though.

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Seeing comments making fun of his voice or how he looked in the 80s reminds me how much I hate metal elitists.

 

If someone makes fun of King's voice and look then they are in no way a metal elitist. Metal elitists usually love King.

 

I dont know man, it does seem very "metal elitist" to dismiss King Diamond because they felt that The Family Ghost was too "hair metal", considering the fact that metal elitists have a notorious hateboner for hair metal.

 

How the hell is Family Ghost hair metal? Where are you even getting that from?

 

Apparently a bunch of commenters thought that the outfits that the members of his band in that time period wore were too "Bon jovi" for music like King's. The song itself is so far away from hair metal though.

 

Don't worry about what those people say. That video was made 30 years ago their complaint is completely irrelevant.

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Fraroc, that makes ZERO sense.

 

I know it doesn't make any sense, that's what makes those elitist arguments so ridiculous.

 

 

I mean look here, the other guys in the band do dress in an 80s rock fashion...because it was the 80s! It wasn't like they were dressing overly gaudy like Pretty Boy Floyd or Poison or Asylum-era KISS. But if something just slightly resembles hair metal, metal elitists automatically reject it, and I think that's bullshit.

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Amazing vocalist.

 

What he does vocally is truly unique. No one else has a voice like his.

 

Indeed! I must admit that what he does is not something you listen to casually - you have to be fully engaged in order to appreciate it and understand it - and I usually can't take more than one album because it's so intense. But he's unique, and absolutely nobody came even close to him in what he does.

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In true King Diamond fashion, i'm resurrecting this topic from the dead to say that my review of his upcoming live release was published today. Check it out, and like our page on Facebook: https://www.sonicperspectives.com/album-reviews/king-diamond-songs-from-the-dead-live/?fbclid=IwAR02RXR-FAvNG9PvTN0d83MHd_7GF2IKxBFhTAt-d3o1eGYUmgnTLOvN5pY
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A real shame that his first band Black Rose didn't make it.

The rehearsal night demo from 1980 is fing killer! :haz:

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