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
![Mercyful Fate Represses 'Don't Break The Oath' For 40th Anniversary [Fright-A-Thon]](https://thathollywoodshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/mercyful-fate-dont-break-the-oath-detail-180912-660x371.webp "mercyful-fate-dont-break-the-oath-detail-180912")
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
Most of us during the COVID-19 pandemic have been trying to keep busy. King Diamond is on overdrive during the pandemic. He's working on a double album, The Institute, with his solo band. In addition to that, he's now working on a new album with Mercyful Fate. YouTube show The Electric Theater with
Before there was even a Fright-A-Thon, we had last Halloween. On that hallowed day we had a list of the Top 10 Heavy Metal Halloween songs. It was a fairly standard list, but in the past almost year, I think we can do better. Or at least we can find ten more songs that celebrate the season of
For better or for worse, the Cold War action-comedy lives! 35 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have meshed the longstanding Odd Couple road trip with Iron Curtain hijinks and modern action sensibilities for a surprisingly solid but conceptually
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia gives us a true puppetmistress in the form of Boraqchin in Ep. 11 "An Ungraceful Stone". This episode has shown her to be a master planner and manipulator, making her quite the political genius. However, this episode also reveals that the people she's puppeting don't
Have you ever considered the similarities between the landmark 1978 slasher Halloween and 1982’s First Blood? In both films, a man of few words arrives in a small town that treats him like the bogeyman, and when circumstances escalate to the point of murder, a specialist who’s highly familiar
