{"id":2447776,"date":"2019-08-20T15:36:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T21:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=874323"},"modified":"2019-08-20T15:36:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T21:36:32","slug":"king-diamond-plots-fall-tour-in-support-of-upcoming-album-the-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/king-diamond-plots-fall-tour-in-support-of-upcoming-album-the-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"King Diamond Plots Fall Tour in Support of Upcoming Album \u2018The Institute\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/king-diamond-fall-tour.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The \u201cvampire\u201d will return this fall when Mercyful Fate frontman and shock rocker extraordinaire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/king-diamond\/\" id=\"auto-tag_king-diamond\" data-tag=\"king-diamond\">King Diamond<\/a> brings his solo show to North America for a post-Halloween tour. A teaser for the trek shows a hand clawing from the darkness inside an insane asylum, a quick glimpse of the singer\u2019s famed mic-stand \u2014 a cross made out of human bones \u2014 and a woman wearing a metal mask. Eerie piano music plays in the background as a woman warns of an approaching storm.<\/p>\n<p>Although the devilish Danish singer hasn\u2019t put out a new album since 2007, the tour will be supporting his upcoming album, <em>The Institute<\/em>. King Diamond expects to release the record next year and is teasing a new single to come out this fall.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AdoUczDwKh4?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWatch out North America, we are coming for you this winter,\u201d King Diamond said in a statement. \u201cI\u2019m very proud to bring two special and amazing guests to you. Their names are Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, plus Idle Hands. Make an appointment now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King Diamond\u2019s North American tour is set to kick off November 2nd at the Bomb Factory in Dallas, Texas and wrap December 4th at the Comerica Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona. Tickets will go on sale August 23rd at 10 a.m. local time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the long nights draw in and the temperatures drop, I can\u2019t think of a better artist to creep around North America with than the legendary King Diamond,\u201d Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats said in an unusual collective statement. \u201cYou\u2019ll all be in for a treat. \u2026 See you there!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other King Diamond news, the singer will front a Mercyful Fate reunion in Europe next year with a debut appearance at the Copenhell Festival in Copenhagen next June. The set list, the band said, would consist only of songs off their early Eighties releases. The lineup notably features Armored Saint bassist Joey Vera filling in for Timi Hansen, who is battling cancer, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blabbermouth.net\/news\/mercyful-fate-bassist-timi-hansen-is-battling-cancer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Blabbermouth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2014 <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/king-diamond-returns-with-human-bones-after-death-defying-decade-242736\/\">Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em> interview, King Diamond recalled how in Mercyful Fate\u2019s early days, the effects were do-it-yourself. \u201cI am actually a trained lab assistant,\u201d he said. \u201cI used to borrow oxygen and magnesium powder to make flash pots at home, and I would experiment with very small portions of explosives, trying get this little mushroom cloud coming up in my home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Metallica drummer and fellow Dane Lars Ulrich picked Mercyful Fate\u2019s <em>Melissa<\/em> as one of his favorite heavy metal albums of all time in an interview last year with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/metallicas-lars-ulrich-my-15-favorite-metal-and-hard-rock-albums-198380\/mercyful-fate-melissa-1983-3-198425\/\">Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em>. In it, he also recalled what their shows were like in the early Eighties. \u201cTheir concerts were crazy,\u201d he said. \u201cKing Diamond would, like, recite the Lord\u2019s Prayer backwards before a song, and for one of the songs, they would have some goose feathers and do all of this ritualistic stuff, which King Diamond was super passionate about it. He\u2019s a super cool guy. You know, we were just really into the music. It was just so fresh and so original and we loved those guys. They were really, really like brothers-in-arms for many years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>King Diamond tour dates:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>November 2 \u2013 Dallas, TX @ Bomb Factory<br \/>November 4 \u2013 Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle<br \/>November 5 \u2013 Orlando, FL @ Dr. Phillips Center<br \/>November 7 \u2013 Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theatre<br \/>November 8 \u2013 Worcester, MA @ The Palladium<br \/>November 10 \u2013 Philadelphia, PA @ The Tower Theater<br \/>November 11 \u2013 Baltimore, MD @ The Lyric<br \/>November 12 \u2013 Montreal, QC @ M-Telus<br \/>November 14 \u2013 Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore<br \/>November 15 \u2013 Cleveland, OH @ The Agora Theatre<br \/>November 16 \u2013 Louisville, KY @ The Palace Theatre<br \/>November 18 \u2013 Chicago, IL @ The Riviera<br \/>November 19 \u2013 Minneapolis, MN @ Palace Theater<br \/>November 22 \u2013 Denver, CO @ The Fillmore<br \/>November 23 \u2013 Salt Lake City, UT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; @ The Complex<br \/>November 25 \u2013 Seattle, WA @ The Paramount<br \/>November 26 \u2013 Portland, OR @ The Schnitzer<br \/>November 27 \u2013 Vancouver, BC @ The Queen Elizabeth<br \/>November 29 \u2013 San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield<br \/>December 1 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern<br \/>December 2 \u2013 San Diego, CA @ Magnolia<br \/>December 3 \u2013 Anaheim, CA @ The Grove Of Anaheim<br \/>December 4 \u2013 Phoenix, AZ @ Comerica<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/king-diamond-fall-tour-874323\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cvampire\u201d will return this fall when Mercyful Fate frontman and shock rocker extraordinaire King Diamond brings his solo show to North America for a post-Halloween tour. 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