King Diamond: New Album Title, Track Listing Revealed

[Dennis]

Renzo van Soelen, the webmaster of KING DIAMOND's official web site, Coven Worldwide, has issued the following update:

"I just got off the phone with King. We talked about two hours and he gave me some very exclusive info about the forthcoming KING DIAMOND CD. King told me he had just finished recording the vocals which he had been doing for the last four weeks about six hours a day.

"In the next three weeks King and Andy [La Rocque, guitar] will be mixing and mastering the album (starting Monday, March 5).

"Is this better than 'The Puppet Master', I asked him. King started laughing and explained it as follows: 'We tried to get our driver's license for twenty years and now we finally got it. We passed the test! It's the best album ever, definitely - there is no doubt about that, for sure. Even the work mix sounds better than any album yet. The music and story are great. I am sure these are my best vocals yet. Andy said to me that he not played solos like this since 'The Eye'. Mike [Wead, guitar] told me he has never been so inspired to do solos as on this album. And, yes, Livia is on the album too!'

"King said to me: 'I guarantee you this is the best album yet - I am positive about it. It's more KING DIAMOND [than] there [has] ever been. It has the best KING DIAMOND top class through the whole album. The story is very dark, perhaps one of the darkest I have ever done.'

"King mentioned the intro to the album is a 'real' intro again, like where Midnight (from 'The Puppet Master') was more of a pre-song .

"Want to get a little taste of what you might expect from the lyrics? Here you go:
'Me and my black cat Magic, the beautiful house on Never Ending Hill, the little girl in the bloody dress and her dead little brother, the dark, the floating head woman, shapes of black and YOU.'

"The cover represents a little girl standing on a winding stairs in a white dress covered with blood (which actually is the blood from her little brother). I have seen the unfinished cover and I'll just know you're gonna love it! King also said that the front cover will look like a mirror.

"The album will probably be released late June/beginning of July. Nothing is certain yet but it looks that way."

The album, which will be "Gimme Your Soul ... Please", will contain the following 13 tracks:

01. The Dead (King)
02. Never Ending Hill (Andy)
03. Is Anybody Here? (King)
04. Black of Night (Andy)
05. Mirror, Mirror (King)
06. The Cellar (Andy)
07. Pictures in Red (Andy)
08. Gimme Your Soul (King)
09. The Floating Head (Andy)
10. Cold as Ice (King)
11. Shapes of Black (King)
12. The Girl in The Bloody Dress (King)
13. Moving On (King)

[About2Crash]

shitty album title, but i love the king so i will get it.

[stach]

Not a KD fan here.

[N00bs]

love King Diamond. cant wait

[Dennis]

Mercyful Fate please....

[herrieman]

The Puppet Master? Not my fav KD album. House of God was good, love the old stuff (Fatal Portrait, Abigail I & II, Them) and live King surprised me. First listen, maybe buy later. MF = epic, but you never know what King is up to.

[Erik]

Originally Posted by Dennis

Mercyful Fate please....

King > Mercyful Fate. Then again King does the epic thing much better. I await this new album with much anticipation.

[helvete]

I prefer Mercyful Fate, but i'll give this a spin when it comes out

[N00bs]

Wow, im listening to the promo of the new album ( unfortuantely with voiceovers ) and man it fucking kicks ass. After The Puppet Master i didnt have my hopes up but this is the best one he has done since Voodoo. Ive never been a huge Fate fan but there have been people saying it sounds like stuff they would of done so for Helvete im not sure how you want to take that. lol But im uber excited now for its release which i will be buying as if it would have stopped me before but i am definitely pleased by what i hear on this record.

[About2Crash]

i can't wait.

the acoustic intro to the black horsemen is still one of my favorite moments in music ever. same with the drums to the intro of a mansion in darkness. fucking great.

[Dago]

Neverending Hill sucked some serious ass..