Heavy metal icon.
King Diamond is about to head out on The Institute Tour in North America later this October. The run continues all the way through December with support from Overkill and Night Demon. The heavy metal legend is celebrating a hopeful new album. The King is synonymous with Halloween. Everything about
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There might not be a person or band out there that loves Halloween and spooky season more than Mercyful Fate and King Diamond. The heavy metal legends are repressing their classic second album, Don't Break The Oath, this November. The album was initially released through Roadrunner Records in 1984,
King Diamond is finally heading back on tour to support his upcoming album The Institute. The headlining tour that brings metal fans to Saint Lucifer's Hospital 1920 will commence on October 15th in San Antonio, Texas and run all the way through December 6th in Dallas, Texas. The supporting bands
If you woke up this morning and checked King Diamond's official Twitter/X account, you might have noticed this post. The post simply says: Masquerade of Madness | Tomorrow... And then it has a video that looks like it could be a live-action version of the artwork for his most recent single
The Gateway Horror series is all about what gets people into horror. Whether that's English class, cable TV, your older brother, or something else. Today, that Gateway is the music genre known as heavy metal. We've written extensively here at THS all about metal and Halloween songs (three lists to
So you're crafting that ultimate Halloween playlist for your party or the drive to work. Does it have heavy metal? If it doesn't, you're doing the playlist a disservice. For THS Fright-A-Thon, we've done two separate lists of metal songs for the Halloween season. This time, we're giving you five
Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl returned for The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob's Halloween House Party, delivering a double feature built around two very different approaches to Halloween horror. This time, the legendary horror host paired Body Bags (1993) with WNUF Halloween Special (2013),
George Carlin told perhaps the greatest joke on football ever told in his 10/11/1975 SNL monologue, where he contrasted the pastoral nature of baseball with the warlike sport of football. To quote one segment among many, “In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field
The term "crowd pleasing" or "crowd pleaser" has found itself layered with some derogatory undertones among critic circles. Broad appeal seems immediately discounted, as if populist filmmaking is somehow lesser than when compared to auteurs and hidden indie gems. I've always maintained that there
