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The Latest Breaking News from King Diamond

Beyond The Gates festival announces headliner King Diamond and 7 others for 2025

The Bergen black/death metal weekender will return from July 30 to August 2

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“I’ve seen a lot of things. Supernatural things. I’ve seen the place between heaven and hell”: The outrageous life of King Diamond, the occult metal icon Metallica love and Gene Simmons wanted to sue

Hauntings, heart attacks, exorcisms and lawsuits – King Diamond looks back on 40 years as Satan’s Little Helper

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“He taught me how to play songs by Dream Theater, Iron Maiden and King Diamond… though I remember giving up on some of the John Petrucci solos!” Tor Oddmund Suhrke on guitar lessons with Ihsahn and casting musical illusions with Leprous

Melodies of Atonement finds Leprous taking the complex and making it sound simple – and if that confuses prog purists then so be it, says Suhrke. There is no reversing the evolutionary wheel…

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"I love being a poser!" Five minutes with Fernanda Lira of fast-rising Brazilian death metallers Crypta

Can you be TRVE while rocking a Beyonce tattoo? According to Fernanda Lira, hell yeah

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Black metal enigma Myrkur has joined King Diamond’s live band

Catch Amalie Bruun onstage when The King tours North America at the end of the year

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Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats made a soundtrack for an Italian movie that doesn't exist: Then they got actors in to supply the dialogue

After six years without a new record, Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats return with one inspired by 70s Italian murder-mystery cinema

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"I thought maybe Mercyful Fate might come knocking, but no." Inside the rebirth of Slayer legend Kerry King

Five years since Slayer hung up their spikes, Kerry King is roaring back with a new band, a new album - and a newfound sense of enthusiasm

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“When Tobias Forge called us his favourite new metal band, I got really emotional”: A conversation with death metal revolutionaries Crypta

Ahead of their upcoming UK tour, the Brazilian four-piece talk about brushing shoulders with stars from Ghost to King Diamond

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“It was inspiring to see how Metallica worked. I had their posters before I had my first guitar”: how Volbeat’s Michael Poulsen stepped up to metal’s big league

The story of Volbeat’s Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies album

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Kerry King, My Dying Bride and The Ghost Inside are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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A brief history of the metal Christmas song – and why there’ll (probably) never be a heavy holiday classic

Superstars from Spinal Tap to King Diamond have all tried to make a heavy metal Christmas classic. Yet, these attempts have never become chart-smashing hits. What gives?

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“People think I play super-fast – it’s what you’d expect from a metal guitarist. But I would remind people that I’m very melodic”: King Diamond’s Andy LaRocque on how the Floyd Rose became his calling card – and why Death pushed his abilities to the limit

Inspired by British glam rock, Andy LaRocque’s distinctive guitar approach means he’s in demand for guest solos – but recording for Chuck Schuldiner and co took his playing to the edge

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The 10 greatest solo albums in heavy metal history

Bruce Dickinson, Rob Halford and Ozzy Osbourne have all proven you don’t need to be in a band to make top-notch heavy metal

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"Dave was really nervous about talking to these guys": Why Dave Grohl ditched the Foo Fighters to make extreme metal supergroup Probot, featuring members of Venom, Sepultura, Motorhead and more

Tired of playing rock shows with Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl recruited his favourite vocalists for the all-star metal project Probot

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The full story of metal's greatest supergroup, Roadrunner United: "We even opened it up to Nickelback"

How members of Slipknot, Machine Head, Fear Factory and Trivium came together to celebrate metal's most legendary label

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