King Diamond first came screaming onto the metal scene in 1980 as the vocalist for Mercyful Fate, a band that had a massive impact on the emerging thrash and black metal genres, influencing groups like Metallicaand Slayer. As part of the eponymous band, King Diamond became one of the most influential metal bands with albums like Fatal Portrait, Abigail, and Them.
King Diamond Awarded Lifelong Art Grant
As reported by Metal Hammer, the Danish Arts Foundation awards grants to five individuals annually, with each recipient receiving up to 189,000 Danish Krona (approximately $26,000) per year. The grant celebrates "creative artists who have such an artistic production behind them that they have positioned themselves decisively as artists."
King Diamond performs at First Avenue nightclub in Minneapolis, Minnesota on August 16, 1988.Photo by Jim Steinfeldt/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
"King Diamond's music is more than just metal - each album is a chapter in a larger horror opera. He is known for creating conceptual works with overarching stories where fate, death, and the supernatural go hand in hand. It's gothic horror romance in metal form, delivered with technical precision and theatrical grandeur," adds the foundation.
King Diamond's Health Issues
The world came close to losing King Diamond in November 2010 when he was rushed to a hospital. Doctors determined that he had endured several heart attacks. Diamond's lifelong smoking habit resulted in three of his arteries being blocked, resulting in an emergency procedure.
"I had a triple bypass surgery. It took about seven hours, and for five of those I was actually dead – I was not here," Diamond told Metal Hammer in 2016. "The most horrific experience of my life was waking up in the hospital. I felt like I was in the video Metallica did for 'One' and inside I was begging for them to kill me. I tried pulling the tubes out, so they tied me up!"
Mikkey Dee, Andy LaRocque, King Diamond, Timi Hansen and Michael Denne during the Fatal Portrait Tour on August 11, 1986.Photo by Randy Bachman/Getty Images
He also explained that he nearly died "three times" since his surgery ("At one point, my blood pressure was more than three hundred"), which has caused setbacks in his recording career. The last King Diamond album was 2007's Give Me Your Soul…Please. Diamond says he's growing "impatient" with the delays, as he's been writing both for a new King Diamond and a new Mercyful Fate album.
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