5 Killer Riffs - King Diamond
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1:57 Halloween
3:15 Abigail
5:20 The Family Ghost
6:44 Welcome Home
7:52 At the Graves
Halloween written by Michael Denner :)
Andy LaRocque is probably the most underrated metal guitarist ever! Andy's solos are so recognisable and they are pure excellence!
Agree. Very melodic and thought out plus his use of the whammy bar is unparalleled. Love those flutters he tosses in occasionally!
Andy LaRocque,Criss Oliva,Wolf Hoffmann,Nuno Bettencourt and Richie Kotzen belong in the "Underrated Monster-Players" Club.
Andy has been my hero since I first heard the album Abigail in 88
Not to mention Mike Weed
No hes not from where Im sitting hes not underrated by me.
Justin Beiber and katy Perry fanboys yes but not in the metal community. The saying underrated really needs to cease. Its sounds like driveling rhetoric by those who say it in a feeble attempt to contribute to a thread with a lack of any descriptors beyond the word underrated. It actually shines a huge on you and says hey im super douchenozzle trying to sound like an intellectual expert on music older than yourself probably. Makes me wanna hurl to hear such wankisms
Andy's work with Death is incredible, my fav is his solo on Trapped in a Corner
And the solo on Cold, in the seminal At the Gates album, slaughter of the soul
The partnership between Andy and Pete on the 'them' album is magic! Probably my favourite dual guitar metal album!
My sentiments exactly 🙂
The solos on "Them" are insane.
sprdthrdr1 Joe that is his best album
...did you catch the them tour?
Memory I will relive till death!
Those riffs are literally otherworldly.
Agreed. Them & Rust In Peace from Megadeth I've always felt were the pinnacle of that dual guitar attack style. Insane solos left & right.
Yeah, man! It was like they were trying to outdo each other! I'm sure it was all in my head but I could sense a bit of 'competition' at those sessions... Too bad there's no 'making of' of the Them album
"Magic" from The Puppet Master album... My favorite riff!!
The playing on The Eye is awesome, The Trial alone has a mixture of riffs and solos that's perfect.
The Eye came so close to making it on this list!
I discovered The Eye a few weeks ago and it's been living in my car's CD player ever since! Very emotionally moving songs once you understand the lyrics and the characters. And as far as The Trial goes, my cat Eddie
Andy is great, BUT I can't get "Is that you Melissa?" out of my head for the last 35 years or so....Shermann kills that one!!
The song "Is that you Melissa?" was released just 26 years ago. Probably you mean "Melissa"
@@subhuman7780 lol..typo! Its was supposed to be 25 years ago. I had the "cassette" tape around a year after release, as it usually required around a year to get it to the market in my homeland... "Oh, Melissaaaaa....you're in my dreams...." :)
Andy has been my favorite metal guitarist since I first heard him 30 years ago. Finally got a chance to see King Diamond this weekend. It was incredible.
I'd love to see them one day, so glad to hear it was a great show
Love to hear props for Cris Oliva and Andy laroque you are right 2 of the most under rated guitar players of all time!
Next to Randy Rhoads, Andy has always been my favorite guitarist. I love his tone, and vibrato.
My 3 favorite Andy solos;
*Sleepless Nights
*July 7, 1777
*Victimized
Underrated only because bubble gum band lovers arent listening to.MF or.KD
Abigail is.one of the best albums.ever
Abigail was what got me into KD, but I have discovered just how good The Eye is lately!
Bubble gum band?
SO many killer KD riffs, picking just 5 is pretty much impossible - maybe 50 😁
Oh yeah! King Diamond! Tightest band ever and absolutely, Andy La Roque is underrated. Steven King should have had King Diamond do every score for all his movies.
Kinda funny to think Steven King and King Diamond both released book and music cd called The Institute
Damn dude, you got some PhD on Savatage and King Diamod,huh? Respect.
King Diamond (band) provides an avalanche of badass riffs. Greetings from Brazil!
Just saw King Diamond a couple nights ago and the entire band put on a KILLER show, also had the chance to meet them and ALL the guys are TOTALLY down to earth.
Andy Laroque is by far one of the most underrated players to come out of the 80's Era. His Riffs, Solo's, and harmonies are briliant.
Thank you for doing this, King's band is so underrated it is not even funny. Andy and Pete are Gods.
Listen, man. They’re not underrated at all. People who listen to King Diamond do know who the guys are and I find it difficult to believe they would say the players are nothing but really good or excellent. Not well known to masses is a much better expression than underrated.
And never forget Omens. Guitars riff and the drum beat together build that umatched groove in metal music.
I love King diamond grew up listening to them and yes the tone is great, I'm ordering mine either tomorrow or next weekend. Thanks again Leon
Your best episode ever
Andy is for real, undisputibly the best ever creative talent ever!!
SAVATAGE CRIMINALY UNDERATED!!
Wonderful videos Leon! Keep them coming man!
My man! Can’t wait to dig into this tnt. Looking forward to your Metaltronix patch!
Abigail and Them are King Diamonds best. Still Love Mercyful Fate! They got me into Metal
Dude!! You just made me even much more of a fan of u for this video \m/ Going to see The King in Atlanta Monday for my second time, Andy will always be my favorite guitarist, been a fan of King and Mercyful fate since I first heard the Graveyard in the 90s, keep it up man and thank u, pumped for show!!
Fantastic band.You nailed it.
AMAZING demonstration of King Diamond riffs, you chose a great guitar to play them on also...because I have that exact same Dean 'Select' V guitar in that same colour too!!!!!! (When I saw that guitar for the first time I HAD to get it...after a bit of shopping around and seeing what OTHER flying V guitars were out there, I ALWAYS came back to this one on my search!!)
LP Custom styling on a V - Love it!
Such a great lesson. Thank you
"Mansion in darkness" is the greatest King's song with the best melody.
My favourite KD riffs? All of them!
Great job man. Never forget Pete Blakk and what he did on The Eye.
Abigail and Them are two of my all-time favorite metal records.
Great video Leon . You're a true metalhead \m/
Anything off of the album “The Eye” was incredible. I’ll be a ninja cause I am in fact a ninja and that’s my thing. What are you going to be?
Had no idea you were into the King! Just awesome, so much killer stuff. Respect man!
This was some amazing playing, I love the tone too. What amp model are you using on this? Sounds amazing, keep up the good work
The good old USA C++ in the Axe-Fx III
Friggin awesome, I've been waiting for someone to do this. Thanks
Andy is one of The most underrated guitarist
Man, amazing video!!! Andy is really an awesome guitar player and, created a lot of killer riffs!!!
Thankyou!
Andy is great but outside of Conspiracy King writes all the guitar parts
in "THEM" album, there're alot of cool riffs! "THEM", full of cool riffs, great solos, great songs!
Agora faz um vídeo com solos de algumas músicas do king diamond...Abraço e obrigado pelo vídeo
Love King Diamond Stuff!
This was great! Love King Diamond. Still have "Them" on cassette; and, "Conspiracy" vinyl picture disc 🤘🏻🧛♀️☠
I love all the king diamond albums. Andy is amazing
Andy and Pete, and Wead are badass guitarists!
Killer tone Leon Todd!
Thanks mate!!
Hail to the King, baby!
"MAGIC", one of he best.
Saludos from México.
I don't like opening my comment with a curse but Hell it is nice to see you. I know it is "just the riffs" but I'm quite aware you could play the solos too....which is what Andy is all about. Greetings from Central Europe my friend, keep up the good work! (Amazing to watch you). They solos on The Eye are welcome at any time.....even though they are out of this dimension...like Judas Priest. Again, whatever happens you have our full support from Europe. Wish you well!
Love Andy's lead playing!
I think a lot of the riffs are written by King himself, but he doesn't play on the recordings.
Andy La Rocque and Dave Murray are my guitar heroes 🤘
King diamond "Just a Shadow" - King diamond "At the graves" - King diamond "A visit from the dead" - King diamond "The exorcist" .King diamond"Magic"
The Possession was always my favorite. The riff in that song is just so mean sounding.
Love that song. Great riffage, and epic singing by KD.
His "Miriam" voice always sends me 😂
"I'm having YOUR baby, my looooooooove!!!"
Nice video! I've loved KD since I heard the Abigail album on cassette back in 87/88. Andy is a fantastic player, always full of interesting riffs and note choices. You mentioned Criss Oliva and I love his playing as well. Just recently I became interested in the more recent KD-albums (kind of lost track of him after The Eye) and ordered a couple of them on cd. Still a few more to hunt down though.
yep Andy, king Diamond and Mercyful Fate are amazing!, Im trying to learn Sleepless nights as I want to record a version of it.
Awesome video, using the Dean is respectful to Andy LaRoque (as he is a more recent Dean player) -and Iirc he cites among his influences Jeff Waters from Annihilator, and all those down stroked riffs are most likely the result of some kind of magick occurring at that time between King (who wrote many if not all of the riffs) his friend James Hetfield and Andy..and a whole bunch of demonic other worlders.. ...always amazing videos - you are such a humble inspiring and rocking dude \m/
Jeff Waters - talk about underrated! Dude is not only a monster metal player and songwriter but he can play just about any style too.
@@LeonTodd Wow! Thanks for the reply man! the longevity of these guys, making the world a better place with their music and art gives us all hope )) and you are totally in the mix for doing the same - you are a mega dude! love and life to you and yours x
Good on ya mate! King and Andy have created in my humble opinion, what Pink Floyd has done in their genre! Symphonies for the mind! There's NONE Greater!
" Pretty Cool!" Great Tones and Well done Brother! Thanks for Sharing, Be Well Leon!
The Invisible Guest!! 🎸
respect ...... job done super cool...... greatings from denmark
Much appreciated!
Denner and Sherman are one of the best guitar duos ever.
Ahead of their time and underrated!
@@LeonTodd Definitely. They got together and played through the first two Mercyful fate albums together on youtube. Then they released an album together with a new band. Killer stuff.
Crimson Ghost i agree with that totally
I dont know if you're a Jason Becker fan, but for me he is one of the best heavy metal players of all time!
Can you do a 5 Jason Becker killer riffs?
Cheers from Portugal 🍺🤘
Mercyful Fate will be reuniting and playing at Copenhell in 2020. Just to let y'all know.
Whaaat? There's awesome
what a comeback that would be!!!!!!
@@elimarsilvanikock7818 it's true
@@LeonTodd right?
Well, actually more like a MF tribute band....
Hank and King participate, Denner hasn’t been invited, Timi is gone and Kim Ruzz is where...?
Was that dancing at the graves the first guitar lick
Oh I love these videos.
That was great playing,and your sound here has that crisp bite to it..sounds mean and aggressive ! Big fan here of king Diamond..my drummer friend and I used to sing "Abigail" over our stores P A system and the customers would freak out and wonder what the hell was that ! I have my Conspiracy cd and my favorite At the Graves..you did and awesome job on it here.. also like that Dean V ..is that a model available to the public ?
I never dress up but I was thinking about going with the invisible Man, maybe the invisible guest
Halloween could easily be an Accept song!
How could you only choose 5?? There is so much awesome guitar playing, must've been difficult just to choose those....🤘
Essa guitarra é foda, brou!
Andy Larocque was never in the original or reunion Mercyful Fate lineup in the 90's. but he is amazing and has done the majority of the songwriting for King Diamond solo band. No Shade, just letting you know \m/
OOOOOOOOOOOOO IT'S HALLOWEEN!
seeing them sunday night in phila. Kind of pumped for Uncle Acid as well.
Same here brotha \m/
Sweet tone there. Also, I like how your T-shirt mirrors your logo somewhat.
That's another thing, I have seen Dean guitars all over the metal magazines but you never see anybody playing them sounds good, now instead of texting let me listen
Satan's Fall is great riff after great riff, epic song.
Yeah that's an absolute ripper.
@@LeonTodd And those Fate albums had some classic Marshall tones.
Satan's Fall literally has like 17 riffs, all different, each could anchor their own song. Amazing.
King Diamond Rules. Everyone knows Andy is great, but Pete Blakk needs more recognition. Everyone loves the solo in sleepless nights ( thats pete blakk)
Hail King and his players !!!!!
The most crushing KD riff is on Twilight Symphony on the Them album. Just after he sings "I could've been the next in line", it starts.
Probably piss-easy to play, but I never get sick of it, and always bang my head like a psycho!
Conspiracy is one of the most underrated albums of the 80s.
No one down two to go ?
Welcome home or Tea... Its impossible man, Abigail, Them and Conspiracy are masterpieces
Nice. How bout another one with some stuff from house of god and the graveyard
2:00 thanks !
Hey Leon, Corrosion of Conformity just asked what Aussie bands should go with them on their Australian tour (if they did one). What is your band name?
... I should mention this was on FB.
Ragdoll. Love me some CoC!
king diamond its veary cool end fucking good
Nice! Now I have to check the albums! Thx. What Amp are you using here?
The Axe-Fx III Mesa Mark Series simulation
Graaaaandmaaaa!
From King Diamond: A Girl In The Bloody Dress, Abigail.Arrival, A Mansion in darkness, Digging Graves, The Trial (A Chambre Ardente) and many more. but this is the most significant KD riffs for me From MF: Melissa, My Demon, Witches Dance, Into The Coven, Buried Alive, Is That You Melissa..ahh I love Michael Denner's playing style especially solos and I tried to study it, but is so lack of information(for example no covers of Force of Evil, Denner/Shermann times), lesson of MF style. For me Denner/Shermann is the best duo alongside Downing/Tipton. I would like to found someone who teach me how play in KD/MF style and wanna play with me music like this. They are my biggest influence.
Nice Dean V
I want that guitar.
Impossible to select just five. I tried.
Always wished I could get a king diamond record without the vocals.
OMENS!!!!!
Deadly......OMENS!!!
Andy La Roque = Alter ego of Schuldiner.
Invisible Guests?
Do Ved Buens Ende's album Written in Waters.
Wayyyy too obscure, I doubt many people here would recognize or care to see that, sadly. Very unique album tho!
@@KarateDungeon One of the best underground albums I've ever heard. IMO of course.
Sleepless nights?
At last!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please Mercyful Fate also!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Going to have to now!