I was always a huge fan of King Diamond since my school years in 80`s and I am also a huge fan of Stephen King. I am 50 now. And I still think that these both creative authors are working within the genre of Horror. And within this genre they are not exclusively explore Human Evil or Supernatural Evil. They also touch bright sides of human nature also. It is not exclusively dark-dark-dark. While I agree it always scary or very scary. King Diamond writes really powerful mystic, gothic, macabre stories, we dont expect happy endings there, it`s kind of predictable that there is almost zero chance that the Evil will be conquered and defeated completely or even partially. Comparing to Stephen King I think that KD is more pessimistic about our chances to fight with the evil creatures, spirits, or human "faults". On other hand KD lyrics look and feel more like a Fantasy, not a Real world where we live in, this way we are able to enjoy this dark place and thrilling music. We dont think or feel that the horrors in the Art form can reach and damage us for real.
In this story, King's character is an employee for a crooked, perverted and immoral mayor, Mayor McKenzie. One night, King's character happens to walk in on his boss molesting his daughter, Lucy. King doesn't keep quiet about this, but the mayor testifies that King is insane and has him locked up in Black Hill Sanitarium. After years of being there, King sees his chance to escape and takes it, strangling the nurse that arrives at his cell to administer his medication and stealing her keys. Now mentally destroyed, King runs off to the local graveyard to hide from the police. King plots his revenge against Mayor McKenzie, and begins killing people who pass through the graveyard at night. King is obsessed with an urban legend that if you die in a graveyard and lose your head, your soul does not escape, and it lives forever in your head. With that thought in the back of his mind, he kidnaps Lucy McKenzie, the mayor's daughter, and calls the mayor out to the graveyard for the two of them to play a game. Eventually, Mayor McKenzie does arrive after King calls him by phone. Before he arrives, King buries Lucy - still conscious - in one of seven empty graves, the tombstones of which read "LUCY FOREVER". King eventually reveals himself to the Mayor and offers him a game. Mayor must dig out his little daughter from one of seven graves while wearing a blindfold. There are seven mounds, and he'll have three guesses or else he'll kill both of them. The Mayor gets the third guess right, but King knocks him out, dragging him to his tomb and tying him down. While the Mayor slowly regains consciousness, King digs up Lucy and takes her out of the coffin while he starts to torture the Mayor. To King's surprise, Lucy ends up pulling down on a cord that sends a sheet of broken glass from a broken chapel window down on King, decapitating him. The urban legend King was obsessed with turns out to be true, as his living head beckons Lucy not to leave him as she walks away with her father. To his relief, Lucy takes King's head and puts it in her backpack, so King can be with her forevern this story, King's character is an employee for a crooked, perverted and immoral mayor, Mayor McKenzie. One night, King's character happens to walk in on his boss molesting his daughter, Lucy. King doesn't keep quiet about this, but the mayor testifies that King is insane and has him locked up in Black Hill Sanitarium. After years of being there, King sees his chance to escape and takes it, strangling the nurse that arrives at his cell to administer his medication and stealing her keys. Now mentally destroyed, King runs off to the local graveyard to hide from the police. King plots his revenge against Mayor McKenzie, and begins killing people who pass through the graveyard at night. King is obsessed with an urban legend that if you die in a graveyard and lose your head, your soul does not escape, and it lives forever in your head. With that thought in the back of his mind, he kidnaps Lucy McKenzie, the mayor's daughter, and calls the mayor out to the graveyard for the two of them to play a game. Eventually, Mayor McKenzie does arrive after King calls him by phone. Before he arrives, King buries Lucy - still conscious - in one of seven empty graves, the tombstones of which read "LUCY FOREVER". King eventually reveals himself to the Mayor and offers him a game. Mayor must dig out his little daughter from one of seven graves while wearing a blindfold. There are seven mounds, and he'll have three guesses or else he'll kill both of them. The Mayor gets the third guess right, but King knocks him out, dragging him to his tomb and tying him down. While the Mayor slowly regains consciousness, King digs up Lucy and takes her out of the coffin while he starts to torture the Mayor. To King's surprise, Lucy ends up pulling down on a cord that sends a sheet of broken glass from a broken chapel window down on King, decapitating him. The urban legend King was obsessed with turns out to be true, as his living head beckons Lucy not to leave him as she walks away with her father. To his relief, Lucy takes King's head and puts it in her backpack, so King can be with her forever
I remember playing this album in highschool art class back in 2000. The look on everyone's faces was priceless. Unfortunately they didn't make it to like the last 4 tracks because it was too much for them. I also played stuff from Suffocation, Sepultura, Deicide etc.
Whispers are the voices in his head advising him on how to exact his revenge on the mayor - abduct his daughter Lucy for leverage. Not A Stranger tells how he cases her routine in order to know the right time to take her without alerting anyone. The description of her appearance is to convey that she is an exceptionally pretty girl despite only being 7 yrs old, but not even "King" would harm a child (deliberately). Do not get caught up in the lyrics as being so literal... each song will reveal another clue as to the back story of why he was in the Sanitarium to begin with, and who his enemy is (the mayor). Again, despite his unhinged and psychotic behavior of snuffing out 4 people (of whom their morals are unknown and therefore the morality of killing them is subjective), King is NOT the bad guy... well, not the worst one. Reserve judgment til you have all the facts. ;-) Remember, this is a King Diamond HORROR STORY, the audio theater equivalent of a horror movie - there will be plot twists and turns.
try the puppet master after that you won't regret it the story is even better will give you chills and the music is more crisp and great love your vids btw
Hola carnales vin y sori, reaccionen al disco de KING DIAMOND the house of god. Todas las rolas está bien chidas. Saludos desde Guadalajara Jalisco carnales ❤️🤗🤝🏼🇲🇽
I don' tthink they read these comments so it's probably not a spoiler...but don't worry about Lucy! By the end of the album she'll be a little murderer! 😁
