Albums like this don't lend themselves well to the "listen to one song at a time" experience. This album is meant to be listened to from beginning to end. There are things that are being hinted at here; it's not the full story. Listening to Welcome Home is like watching the job interview in The Shining and wondering why everyone thinks The Shining is so scary.
Instrumentally, King Diamond is absolute fire. Especially on those albums "Abigail" (1987) and "Them" (1988). The selling point is always going to be how a person feels about those vocals and lyrics and themes. I've only gotten to the point of tolerance with them tbh. But I can appreciate how talented they are and those albums show up in my rotation every once in a while because of it. Cool things about them: 1) This song specifically is in the movie "Clerks 2" where Jay and Silent Bob are jamming out to it outside of the fast food restaurant. 2) The guitarist Andy LaRocque is an absolute beast, and he's featured on one of my favorite albums by the band Death -- "Individual Thought Patterns".
Yeah,Individual Thought Patterns is a piece of art \m/ I loooove anything King does but like you said, he has a unique voice that you either love or can't stand in the long run.
Out of all my metalhead friends, only a couple of them enjoy King's vocals (almost as much as do). The others just couldn't get past the high falsetto. On a side note, I was lucky enough to attend a Death show during their Individual Thought Patterns tour. I'm a huge Death fan from way back and, as a drummer, Sean Reinert and Gene Hoglan have both been massive influences for me. I was hoping by some miracle that Andy would be with touring with them but, alas, it wasn't meant to be. I did get to experience the entire show within arm's length from Chuck (R.I.P.) and was able to shake his hand. Still easily one of my favorite concerts I've ever attended 🤘
Most of KD’s albums are concept horror stories that are amazing. “Welcome home” is the opening track from the album “Them” (1988) that the protagonist’s family welcomes home the grandma from an asylum. However some malevolent entities from the attic of the house are reconnecting with the grandma and things go south from there on. I won’t spoil it but after listening an entire King Diamond album with the lyrics , you feel like you have been at an opera, cinema and a music theater simultaneously. Very theatrical and mind blowing, actually. Unlike King Diamond’s previous band called Mercyful Fate that is musically is a bit more traditional heavy metal but very satanic and frightening. Mercyful Fate and King Diamond are a world of their own. Beautiful, heavy, melodic and truly evil
King Diamond is the go to metal band for the tastiest, catchiest, most melodic and yet heavy fucking riffs and solos. And drum fills galore, fucking crisp and never seems to overdo it, perfectly balanced
King Diamond's biggest album was "Them"... it was a rather disturbing concept album story about a boy named 'King' living in his family house 'Amon' w/ his mom & sister 'Missy'... The story starts w/ their 'Grandma' coming home from an asylum (apparently it was related to the gruesome, unexplained death of 'Grandpa' years ago) ... As it turned out, the house 'Amon' is haunted by 'Them'... spirits that 'Grandma' has tea w/ and puts 'King' under a spell... 'They' get upset when 'Missy' breaks a cup trying to break her brother's spell, and 'Grandma' kills 'Missy' and dumps her remains in a furnace... 'King' breaks the spell and gets revenge on 'Grandma'
You need to do a full album review!. This is the type of band where you'll have to listen to song by song to understand the concept and the more you listen to it, the more it'll pull you in!.
I remember the night that video premiered on MTV's Headbangers Ball. A couple of my friends and I eagerly awaited the airing of it. Even got to see King in concert when they toured in support of the album and briefly met the band members as they left the stage area. Mikkey Dee has always been on the short list of my drum heroes.
King likes doing horror-themed concept albums, and we love him for it. "The Family Ghost" from Abigail album would be a great place to resume your KD adventure. Killer track, fun video, happens about halfway through the story told on the album.
I just discovered your channel and I have to say, that it's awesome! I like, that you delve deeper into metal and not just stop with the classics and that's it. So many reaction channels react to the same bands and it's getting boring fast. There is much more to metal than Iron Maiden, Metallica, Black Sabbath, etc. Btw. I'm a huge King Diamond and Mercyful Fate fan and think, that there are not many heavy metal bands on their level. Some other classic King Diamond songs would be Abigail, At the Graves, Black Horsemen or Tea. Although I would also recommend Magic from The Puppet Master, which is also a fantastic album. Lastly, you really need to check Mercyful Fate, too. Everything from the first two albums and the EP is gold.
The King Diamond albums are concept albums. You need to listen to them front to back the get the fulltime experience. The drummer is Mikkey Dee the later drummer of Motörhead. Listen to early Mercyful Fate.
"We better get rid of her, She's too young anyway", it was Grandma who spoke "Bye bye Missy, be gone forever The beautiful fireplace in the kitchen will do"
Fatal Portrait is the first album with guitarist Andy Laroque. Michael Denner from Mercyful Fate also. The first solo album after Mercyful Fate split apart.
I've been a fan of this guy for the last 30 plus years. His best stuff by far is everything up to and including THE EYE. YOU HAVE TO HEAR THEM START TO FINISH TO GET THEM FULLY. After the EYE, THE GRAVEYARD is easily the best of his later material. This is a rabbit hole you have got to fall in. You'll love the journey.
King Diamond - The Invisible Guest live at Monster of Rock 1996 is a must watch. Also I remember when Rammstein came on the scene people used to joke, referring back to this song by the King, that for all we know those angry sounding Germans could be singing about their grandma for all we knew.
The King Diamond albums “Them” and “Conspiracy” are a concept story. Just looking at the lyrics to this song is taking them out of context so you are not going to have the proper insight into the story that they convey...
The album this song is from, Them (and Conspiracy, the follow-up album that contains Sleepless Nights) needs to be listened to in their entirety to truly appreciate the story.
Every King Diamond Album Is A Complete Story, Each Song A Chapter, All Metal Operas! Read The Lyrics Of "Them" The Full Album To Understand Who Was Speaking To "Grandma" Then You'll Get It!😁
This is the opening track to a concept album. Listen to the entire disc. The story is incredible. Kim is a phenomenal horror writer who just chooses to put his stories to metal.
Listening to this song, without context, yes it’s hilarious. It’s the opening track to an entire concept album about “Them” (also the name of the album), that continues into the next album Conspiracy, where Sleepless Nights is from. The story over these two albums is actually really good. You should do a reaction to Them and Conspiracy in their entirety to get the whole scope of the story.
Yes - this track is wild. Its hard to fully appreciate King Diamond supremacy to all heavy metal world in 80-s era from the 1st listen. If you look closely to the originality of his sound, composition, lyrics, stories, vocals, complexity and innovations - he is far ahead of his time and his influence was massive. I am not trying to say that there were no other great influential bands at that time, but... I dont know any band from 80-s other then King Diamond who could come out each year from 1986 to 1990 (5 in a row) with a new totally genius albums, each of them contained massive material to listen, explore, wonder and etc. If you add several albums by Mercyful fate before King Diamond went solo - that will make an amount of innovative ingenius collection mountain high. I take my hat off to King Diamond and his ability to create something that you will never forget and that you can enjoy many-many times listening and re-listening his albums god knows how many times.
Simply amazing guitars, drums, and bass. I like King's vocals too, they're understandably an acquired taste for most. Them is my favorite King Diamond album, probably because it's the first one I ever heard.
Omg you guys should do a long form video where you do this album THEM and than it's follow up and SEQUEL !!!! CONSPIRACY THEY ARE 2 of the BEST metal albums if the late 80s. The ending of MOTHERS GETTING WEAKER will give you chills like a mother.
So Sleepless Nights is part of the follow up sequel Concept album to the first which this is the first song on. I implore you to listen to a whole King Diamond album in order to get the full feel for the band. Abigail or Them(which this is off of) and Conspiracy is the 2nd part to THEM(which contains Sleepless Nights) dope vid man love it!
That was me that requested Sleepless Nights. Good times, Brother. You really need to just kick back with a couple beers and listen to the whole album. It's a horror story.
Sleepless nights was of the "Conspiracy v"album, which in itself was. Part 2 of the story for the "Them" album. Most of King Diamond's albums are all comprehensive stories, & his 1st four[Fatal Portrait, Abigail, Them & Conspiracy], set everything up. Each album[save for Abigail & Abigail II, Them & Conspiracy which are both past 1 & 2 for the same story] ask others were single album stories. You should read the backstory for those 4 albums, in chronological order -Portrait -Abigail -Them -Conspiracy for a better understanding Advice: if you're gonna watch a video for more clarity, pay attention to the video,or you'll miss key points & Easter eggs to weekdays going on. Personal I'm been listening to KD since sophomore year, high school[1990] & as a musician, I my opinion, The best lineups were the first 2, because [thankfully] the line-up only changed once during the first 4 albums, and were as follows: Fatal Portrait & Abigail: KD(vocals), Michael Denner(lead/rhythm guitars), Andy La Roque(lead/rhythm guitars), Timi Hansen(bass), Mikkey Dee(drums) Them & Conspiracy: Pete Blakk(lead/rhythm guitars) & Hal Patino(bass) were added to the group after Denner the band after Abigail's recording, while Hansen left after there video for "the family ghost"
Hi T, I think that you should do a battle of the bands, that will come close to Judas Priest, it would have to be King Diamond, because of the vocals. Keep up the good work 👍🇦🇺 from Dave.
I was about to say some things about KD, but reading the comments, most people covered alot of stuff, yeah keep checking out more KD and or MF, rock on dude!
Sleepless nights is part of the same story, welcome home is bringing Grandma home from the asylum, and the rest of the songs on "Them" is a continuation of the story, "Conspiracy" is the second part of the story set 18 years later sleepless nights is the first song on that. I recommend listening in order.
The album "Them" tells a story. The song "Welcome Home" is where grandma just got home from an insane asylum, there are demons that possess the house, and King, his sister Missy, and Mother are introduced as characters. You really should follow the lyrics as the story is presented, it's a metal opera production of a ghost story, and is wicked fun to listen to. 🤘😈
Oh the storylines of King Diamond... horror stories that would make Stephen King shudder... ...as a kid, I loved to dose a bit, and go into the country listening to King 🤘🏾🤘
The video is a kind of mix of parts of a bunch of the songs from the Them album all in one video plus something random things that have nothing to do with the album probably forced in by studio executives that thought they knew best.
So, what I got from the song is that grandma has already been a dead a long time and is a ghost in the house and the young boy has, himself just passed away and sees his grandma and in his naive innocence is still trying to get grandma to come see the house and meet his mom and sister and show her the things that a kid might be excited to show her, but as he doesn't realize he is dead he begins to get confused and by the end of the song his disjointedness from reality is starting to set in and he is becoming aggressive and afraid that grandma is the only company he has now as he starts to realize he is no longer of the living.
I remember being around 13 when a friend of mine said that he borrowed an amazing record and I should hear it. It was King Diamond's The Graveyard. So I listenened and it was boring untill he started lauging. I've been in love since then. King and Mercy are simply put my favorites and have been for about 30 years now.
As someone who was Stationed overseas when THEM came out, and was limited to only hearing the CD, and not seeing the MTV video. I' always viewed the CD with a much more serious tone; both artistically, and lyrically. Firstly, he is telling a horror story, period. That in of itself is tone enough. Secondly you add in Andy LeRoque's classical sounding guitar work, Timi Hansson's Bass guitar ( which sounded like a bass violin throughout the entire CD, and you have a metal horror opera that Mozart would have been proud of ( Think, Don Giovanni, and Requiem). After seeing the music video, I was quite dismayed at the near comical aspect the video was done. Even worse, was that how King went along with it with some of the over the top gestures and what not. Maybe he was told to "tone it down" fro the sake of MTV's restrictions vs the PMRC at the time. Who knows. One might even say, "oh but it was dark comedy". Sorry but I have to object. This CD is anything but comedy, and instead gets progressively darker with each track and the story unfolds to the culmination of "King" being taken away in an ambulance to an asylum whereas the authorities would blame him for the events that happened at Amon House. Another puzzling fact is how King Diamond jumps around from track to track during a concert, as if each track was a stand along song, that has nothing to do with the other tracks for the CD that the tour was based on. ( i.e. Abigail , Them, Conspiracy...etc) . If this was just fine with King, then fine, he's the leader of the band, but personally I envisioned that the tour would have been a start to finish LIVE "enactment" of the CD with track progression just like the CD itself to tell the story to a Live Audience; which would be allot truer to the genre of " Horror Metal Opera"; in my opinion.
Grandma ends up being a seducer of thousand year old demons that dwell in the house . The whole album is a dope ass horror story .. each song a different chapter .
All those accusations of metal, singing about nothing but devil worship and drugs were ridiculous - for here, King sings a song about his Grandma, and welcoming her home... ;-) Don't get more wholesome than that....!
You can't really do King Diamond justice with single tracks. Basically ghost stories put to music. The live shows are more of a play than a concert. The album Abigail is my favorite.
when he said "you need to be a good band to talk about gramma and help her out of the chair in a song" i laughed my ass off. Niggas dont get white people music xDDDD
King video’s are always ridiculous. King albums are Horror story Masterpieces live king is best. King Diamond at the Fillmore the same concert as sleepless nights
Hearing just this song is like opening a book randomly and read just one chapter...
It makes me want to keep reading
Most af his albums are concepts ,,he's a great storyteller
Albums like this don't lend themselves well to the "listen to one song at a time" experience. This album is meant to be listened to from beginning to end. There are things that are being hinted at here; it's not the full story.
Listening to Welcome Home is like watching the job interview in The Shining and wondering why everyone thinks The Shining is so scary.
The horror aspect of the story in this one doesn't come until "Tea".. King Diamond is the Stephen King of Heavy Metal!
Yes, it's a concept album. Most King Diamond records are.
Instrumentally, King Diamond is absolute fire. Especially on those albums "Abigail" (1987) and "Them" (1988).
The selling point is always going to be how a person feels about those vocals and lyrics and themes. I've only gotten to the point of tolerance with them tbh. But I can appreciate how talented they are and those albums show up in my rotation every once in a while because of it.
Cool things about them:
1) This song specifically is in the movie "Clerks 2" where Jay and Silent Bob are jamming out to it outside of the fast food restaurant.
2) The guitarist Andy LaRocque is an absolute beast, and he's featured on one of my favorite albums by the band Death -- "Individual Thought Patterns".
Then I guess I do a lil more but feel exactly the same I dig it for workout music
Yeah,Individual Thought Patterns is a piece of art \m/
I loooove anything King does but like you said, he has a unique voice that you either love or can't stand in the long run.
Out of all my metalhead friends, only a couple of them enjoy King's vocals (almost as much as do). The others just couldn't get past the high falsetto. On a side note, I was lucky enough to attend a Death show during their Individual Thought Patterns tour. I'm a huge Death fan from way back and, as a drummer, Sean Reinert and Gene Hoglan have both been massive influences for me. I was hoping by some miracle that Andy would be with touring with them but, alas, it wasn't meant to be. I did get to experience the entire show within arm's length from Chuck (R.I.P.) and was able to shake his hand. Still easily one of my favorite concerts I've ever attended 🤘
Most of KD’s albums are concept horror stories that are amazing. “Welcome home” is the opening track from the album “Them” (1988) that the protagonist’s family welcomes home the grandma from an asylum. However some malevolent entities from the attic of the house are reconnecting with the grandma and things go south from there on. I won’t spoil it but after listening an entire King Diamond album with the lyrics , you feel like you have been at an opera, cinema and a music theater simultaneously. Very theatrical and mind blowing, actually.
Unlike King Diamond’s previous band called Mercyful Fate that is musically is a bit more traditional heavy metal but very satanic and frightening.
Mercyful Fate and King Diamond are a world of their own. Beautiful, heavy, melodic and truly evil
Very interesting
King Diamond is the go to metal band for the tastiest, catchiest, most melodic and yet heavy fucking riffs and solos. And drum fills galore, fucking crisp and never seems to overdo it, perfectly balanced
King Diamond's biggest album was "Them"... it was a rather disturbing concept album story about a boy named 'King' living in his family house 'Amon' w/ his mom & sister 'Missy'... The story starts w/ their 'Grandma' coming home from an asylum (apparently it was related to the gruesome, unexplained death of 'Grandpa' years ago) ... As it turned out, the house 'Amon' is haunted by 'Them'... spirits that 'Grandma' has tea w/ and puts 'King' under a spell... 'They' get upset when 'Missy' breaks a cup trying to break her brother's spell, and 'Grandma' kills 'Missy' and dumps her remains in a furnace... 'King' breaks the spell and gets revenge on 'Grandma'
You need to do a full album review!. This is the type of band where you'll have to listen to song by song to understand the concept and the more you listen to it, the more it'll pull you in!.
I remember the night that video premiered on MTV's Headbangers Ball. A couple of my friends and I eagerly awaited the airing of it. Even got to see King in concert when they toured in support of the album and briefly met the band members as they left the stage area. Mikkey Dee has always been on the short list of my drum heroes.
King likes doing horror-themed concept albums, and we love him for it.
"The Family Ghost" from Abigail album would be a great place to resume your KD adventure. Killer track, fun video, happens about halfway through the story told on the album.
You need to listen to the album “Them” from start to finish!!!
Great reaction I've listened to him since Mercyfulfate definitely an icon for metal wich influenced alot of bands
dude i wore out this CD.
missy & i are old friends...🖤
I just discovered your channel and I have to say, that it's awesome! I like, that you delve deeper into metal and not just stop with the classics and that's it. So many reaction channels react to the same bands and it's getting boring fast. There is much more to metal than Iron Maiden, Metallica, Black Sabbath, etc.
Btw. I'm a huge King Diamond and Mercyful Fate fan and think, that there are not many heavy metal bands on their level.
Some other classic King Diamond songs would be Abigail, At the Graves, Black Horsemen or Tea. Although I would also recommend Magic from The Puppet Master, which is also a fantastic album. Lastly, you really need to check Mercyful Fate, too. Everything from the first two albums and the EP is gold.
King Diamond 👍👍👍👍
King Diamond and Mercyful Fate!
KD = more complex compositions and storytelling
MF = More guitar riffs, and dark n evil Rock n Roll
If one does not appreciate King Diamond as a whole, the mystique, the stories, the voice, I do not know how one can appreciate music.
Dammit... I just watched your reaction, and now I have to go listen to the entire album for the thousandth time.
Great reaction luv the KING
The King Diamond albums are concept albums. You need to listen to them front to back the get the fulltime experience. The drummer is Mikkey Dee the later drummer of Motörhead. Listen to early Mercyful Fate.
You've only read 1 chapter of this book... Grandma is not so innocent.
"We better get rid of her, She's too young anyway", it was Grandma who spoke
"Bye bye Missy, be gone forever
The beautiful fireplace in the kitchen will do"
King Diamond's albums are a story and each song tells a part.
GRANDMAAAAAAAAAA😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lol
Fatal Portrait is the first album with guitarist Andy Laroque. Michael Denner from Mercyful Fate also. The first solo album after Mercyful Fate split apart.
Definitely need to whole album review / reactions when dealing with king diamond
The album “them” is the beginning of a concept story. It continues on the album “conspiracy” which has sleepless nights on it
I've been a fan of this guy for the last 30 plus years. His best stuff by far is everything up to and including THE EYE. YOU HAVE TO HEAR THEM START TO FINISH TO GET THEM FULLY.
After the EYE, THE GRAVEYARD is easily the best of his later material.
This is a rabbit hole you have got to fall in. You'll love the journey.
He’s such a fun singer! Lol if you like this try out some early Savatage. Cool reaction.
This is a concept album, when you get a chance you should listen to the whole album and have the lyrics available. It is a really good story.
King Diamond - The Invisible Guest live at Monster of Rock 1996 is a must watch.
Also I remember when Rammstein came on the scene people used to joke, referring back to this song by the King, that for all we know those angry sounding Germans could be singing about their grandma for all we knew.
This needs to be heard with the intro, Out From The Asylum - it really sets the mood.
Bonus points if you can listen to OFTA it in the dark, lol.
The Black Horsemen is the song you really need to check!
The King Diamond albums “Them” and “Conspiracy” are a concept story. Just looking at the lyrics to this song is taking them out of context so you are not going to have the proper insight into the story that they convey...
All King Diamond albums are concept albums.
@@iachtulhu1420 That’s not totally true... “Fatal Portrait” and “The Spider’s Lullaby” albums are not full concept albums.
@@MetallIstKrieg Then what about Abagail and Abagail 2?
@@keithgraham8588 I’ve never heard of those albums, but if you’re referring to “Abigail” and “Abigail II”, exactly what are you asking about them?
4:02 Best bit of the song
My first King Diamond song ❤
Was creepy as fuck, lol
The album this song is from, Them (and Conspiracy, the follow-up album that contains Sleepless Nights) needs to be listened to in their entirety to truly appreciate the story.
Hahaha! Your ending comments about the record execs was hilarious 😂
I have to thank Kevin Smith for introducing me to King Diamond because of Clerks 2.
Every King Diamond Album Is A Complete Story, Each Song A Chapter, All Metal Operas! Read The Lyrics Of "Them" The Full Album To Understand Who Was Speaking To "Grandma" Then You'll Get It!😁
This is the opening track to a concept album. Listen to the entire disc. The story is incredible. Kim is a phenomenal horror writer who just chooses to put his stories to metal.
Listening to this song, without context, yes it’s hilarious. It’s the opening track to an entire concept album about “Them” (also the name of the album), that continues into the next album Conspiracy, where Sleepless Nights is from. The story over these two albums is actually really good. You should do a reaction to Them and Conspiracy in their entirety to get the whole scope of the story.
How about reacting to Evil by Merciful Fate? King Diamond's first band. Take care T. You and your wife do a great job. Thank you both.🙏
Yes - this track is wild. Its hard to fully appreciate King Diamond supremacy to all heavy metal world in 80-s era from the 1st listen. If you look closely to the originality of his sound, composition, lyrics, stories, vocals, complexity and innovations - he is far ahead of his time and his influence was massive. I am not trying to say that there were no other great influential bands at that time, but... I dont know any band from 80-s other then King Diamond who could come out each year from 1986 to 1990 (5 in a row) with a new totally genius albums, each of them contained massive material to listen, explore, wonder and etc. If you add several albums by Mercyful fate before King Diamond went solo - that will make an amount of innovative ingenius collection mountain high. I take my hat off to King Diamond and his ability to create something that you will never forget and that you can enjoy many-many times listening and re-listening his albums god knows how many times.
The guitar playing and tone reminds me of TNT. Hey....maybe TNT could react to TNT???
Simply amazing guitars, drums, and bass. I like King's vocals too, they're understandably an acquired taste for most.
Them is my favorite King Diamond album, probably because it's the first one I ever heard.
I hope the new album sees the light of day soon, was supposed to come out in 2020!
Omg you guys should do a long form video where you do this album THEM and than it's follow up and SEQUEL !!!! CONSPIRACY
THEY ARE 2 of the BEST metal albums if the late 80s.
The ending of MOTHERS GETTING WEAKER will give you chills like a mother.
FINALLY. AFTER A YEAR OF BEGGING, YOU DID IT. I'm so happy!
Please, react to Abigail next time. It's his most famous song, and I swear it's a blast!
I just did Abigail. I’m really starting to love King diamond
@@TheAdventuresofTNT Ohhh man, i'm so happy. King Diamond is like no other. I'm sure you will grow to love him. He is so unique
So Sleepless Nights is part of the follow up sequel Concept album to the first which this is the first song on. I implore you to listen to a whole King Diamond album in order to get the full feel for the band. Abigail or Them(which this is off of) and Conspiracy is the 2nd part to THEM(which contains Sleepless Nights) dope vid man love it!
You definitely need to hear the entire album in order for this all to make sense
That was me that requested Sleepless Nights. Good times, Brother. You really need to just kick back with a couple beers and listen to the whole album. It's a horror story.
You have to listen to the full album. It's a story. Each song is a chapter
Sleepless nights was of the "Conspiracy v"album, which in itself was. Part 2 of the story for the "Them" album. Most of King Diamond's albums are all comprehensive stories, & his 1st four[Fatal Portrait, Abigail, Them & Conspiracy], set everything up. Each album[save for Abigail & Abigail II, Them & Conspiracy which are both past 1 & 2 for the same story] ask others were single album stories. You should read the backstory for those 4 albums, in chronological order
-Portrait
-Abigail
-Them
-Conspiracy for a better understanding
Advice: if you're gonna watch a video for more clarity, pay attention to the video,or you'll miss key points & Easter eggs to weekdays going on. Personal I'm been listening to KD since sophomore year, high school[1990] & as a musician, I my opinion,
The best lineups were the first 2, because [thankfully] the line-up only changed once during the first 4 albums, and were as follows:
Fatal Portrait & Abigail: KD(vocals), Michael Denner(lead/rhythm guitars),
Andy La Roque(lead/rhythm guitars), Timi Hansen(bass), Mikkey Dee(drums)
Them & Conspiracy: Pete Blakk(lead/rhythm guitars) & Hal Patino(bass) were added to the group after Denner the band after Abigail's recording, while Hansen left after there video for "the family ghost"
Yesssssss!!!!!!!!!!
Hi T, I think that you should do a battle of the bands, that will come close to Judas Priest, it would have to be King Diamond, because of the vocals. Keep up the good work 👍🇦🇺 from Dave.
SPIDER'S LULLABYE is another great album from KING DIAMOND. Check out the song 'Moonlight'.
I was about to say some things about KD, but reading the comments, most people covered alot of stuff, yeah keep checking out more KD and or MF, rock on dude!
Sleepless nights is part of the same story, welcome home is bringing Grandma home from the asylum, and the rest of the songs on "Them" is a continuation of the story,
"Conspiracy" is the second part of the story set 18 years later sleepless nights is the first song on that. I recommend listening in order.
The album "Them" tells a story.
The song "Welcome Home" is where grandma just got home from an insane asylum, there are demons that possess the house, and King, his sister Missy, and Mother are introduced as characters.
You really should follow the lyrics as the story is presented, it's a metal opera production of a ghost story, and is wicked fun to listen to. 🤘😈
Who else wrote an album about his grandmother and a cup of tea.... only King
You know I don't like talking about dark forces, Randall
Wow! Well done, Sir.
The albums have stories.
Oh the storylines of King Diamond... horror stories that would make Stephen King shudder...
...as a kid, I loved to dose a bit, and go into the country listening to King 🤘🏾🤘
I would love to see a Abigail series.
Listen to the album this is from (Them), and the album "Sleepless Nights" is from (Conspiracy). It's all one big story.
The video is a kind of mix of parts of a bunch of the songs from the Them album all in one video plus something random things that have nothing to do with the album probably forced in by studio executives that thought they knew best.
You need more King Diamond and Mercyful Fate in your life bro.
So, what I got from the song is that grandma has already been a dead a long time and is a ghost in the house and the young boy has, himself just passed away and sees his grandma and in his naive innocence is still trying to get grandma to come see the house and meet his mom and sister and show her the things that a kid might be excited to show her, but as he doesn't realize he is dead he begins to get confused and by the end of the song his disjointedness from reality is starting to set in and he is becoming aggressive and afraid that grandma is the only company he has now as he starts to realize he is no longer of the living.
Check out A Dangerous Meeting by his band Mercyful Fate. Amazing song.
I remember being around 13 when a friend of mine said that he borrowed an amazing record and I should hear it. It was King Diamond's The Graveyard. So I listenened and it was boring untill he started lauging. I've been in love since then. King and Mercy are simply put my favorites and have been for about 30 years now.
The boy is "King" as a 9-year-old boy (he casts himself in this story)
The young woman is King's "Mother".
The old woman is of course, "Grandma"...
You should checkout A Dangerous Meeting by Mercyful Fate(King Diamonds 1st band)
Check out the Family Ghost! Off the Abigail CD. The CD is Awesome!! Cool Story too.
As someone who was Stationed overseas when THEM came out, and was limited to only hearing the CD, and not seeing the MTV video. I' always viewed the CD with a much more serious tone; both artistically, and lyrically. Firstly, he is telling a horror story, period. That in of itself is tone enough. Secondly you add in Andy LeRoque's classical sounding guitar work, Timi Hansson's Bass guitar ( which sounded like a bass violin throughout the entire CD, and you have a metal horror opera that Mozart would have been proud of ( Think, Don Giovanni, and Requiem). After seeing the music video, I was quite dismayed at the near comical aspect the video was done. Even worse, was that how King went along with it with some of the over the top gestures and what not. Maybe he was told to "tone it down" fro the sake of MTV's restrictions vs the PMRC at the time. Who knows. One might even say, "oh but it was dark comedy". Sorry but I have to object. This CD is anything but comedy, and instead gets progressively darker with each track and the story unfolds to the culmination of "King" being taken away in an ambulance to an asylum whereas the authorities would blame him for the events that happened at Amon House.
Another puzzling fact is how King Diamond jumps around from track to track during a concert, as if each track was a stand along song, that has nothing to do with the other tracks for the CD that the tour was based on. ( i.e. Abigail , Them, Conspiracy...etc) . If this was just fine with King, then fine, he's the leader of the band, but personally I envisioned that the tour would have been a start to finish LIVE "enactment" of the CD with track progression just like the CD itself to tell the story to a Live Audience; which would be allot truer to the genre of " Horror Metal Opera"; in my opinion.
Good ups.
If you've seen the film Clerks 2 then you have heard of Grandma before.
King Diamond - Abigail
Eye of the witch is one you should cover it would probably have your head bobbing better than the rest of them
Grandma ends up being a seducer of thousand year old demons that dwell in the house . The whole album is a dope ass horror story .. each song a different chapter .
It all starts to make sense as the album goes on my brother lol just keep going song by song lol
Then continue to “conspiracy”
All those accusations of metal, singing about nothing but devil worship and drugs were ridiculous - for here, King sings a song about his Grandma, and welcoming her home... ;-)
Don't get more wholesome than that....!
Drummer is Mikkey Dee. 🤘
You should try tô react his other Band called Mercyful Fate. Greetings from Brasil brother.
You can't really do King Diamond justice with single tracks. Basically ghost stories put to music. The live shows are more of a play than a concert. The album Abigail is my favorite.
Wait till you get to the song Tea
What do you mean the video is creepy when you missed the whole thing lol
Listen to Abigail and Eye of the Witch.😉
Grandma take the home.
if only missy had left that teapot where she'd found it
Concept album.
I bet you're DYING for a cup of TEA!!!!!
You gotta try Tesla ez come ez go and cowboy of the modern day and 2 late4love / little suzie
I would love to see you react to set the world a fire by megadeth
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oh so King had a real life mentally ill grandma who factored into his life heavily
Try out the family ghost
when he said "you need to be a good band to talk about gramma and help her out of the chair in a song" i laughed my ass off. Niggas dont get white people music xDDDD
Evil Grandma!....
I believe the Gma is Dead and is now a Ghost possibly?
Bro, you're missing the entire video while you're typing
I have 2 screens. I saw it
King video’s are always ridiculous. King albums are Horror story
Masterpieces live king is best. King Diamond at the Fillmore the same concert as sleepless nights