February 1984. It’s a freezing night in Copenhagen, Denmark. Under heavy snow, the streets are silent. In a rooftop apartment, something weird is going down. King Diamond is an avowed Satanist. His ...

Years before King Diamond, drummer Matt Thompson played in Truncator, a short-lived death metal band with surprisingly ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Heavy metal has its fair share of characters but King Diamond stands out even amongst the most colorful and remarkable musicians. As the iconic frontman of Mercyful Fate and the namesake for the band ...

This was just about the best possible way to kick off the holiday season: heavy metal legends King Diamond and Exodus brought plenty of sound and fury to the recently opened Fillmore concert hall in ...

Danish metal legend and dude who likes to help the elderly out of their chairs King Diamond has been working on new material for some time. In a new interview with Creem, he said plans are in the ...

In December of 2010, King Diamond underwent triple-bypass heart surgery after a series of heart attacks. Diamond has since been doing much better and is now out on road with Mercyful Fate performing ...

In a surprising overturn, the lustrous, blue-white element osmium has beaten diamond in a test of compressibility. Not used much today, osmium has been incorporated into alloys for fountain-pen tips ...