King Diamond - Gimme Your Soul... Please

Rather silly title of King's new album, but anyway:

I just got off the phone with King. We talked about two hours and he
gave me some very exclusive info about the forthcoming King Diamond CD.
King told me he had just finished recording the vocals which he had
been doing for the last 4 week about six hours a day.



In the next 3 weeks King and Andy will be mixing and mastering the album (starting Monday the 5th).

Is this better than The Puppet Master I asked him. King started
laughing and explained it as follows: we tried to get our drivers
license for twenty years and now we finally got it. We passed the test!
It’s the best album ever definitely, there is no doubt about that for
sure. Even the work mix sounds better than any album yet. The music and
story are great. I am sure these are my best vocals yet. Andy said to
me that he not played solos like this since The Eye. Mike told me he
has never been so inspired to do solos as on this album. And yes Livia
is on the album too!



King said to me: I guarantee you this is the best album yet I am
positive about it. Its more King Diamond there have ever been. It has
the best King Diamond top class through the whole album. The story is
very dark, perhaps one of the darkest I have ever done before.



King mentioned the intro to the album is a ‘real’ intro again, like
where Midnight (from “The Puppet Master”) was more of a pre-song....

Gimme Your Soul? :scratch:

Errrr, ok. Strange album title. Looking forward to hearing the music though.

ult

I REALLY doubt he'll ever top Abigail.

Still, I'd at least like to hear it.

i'll always buy a KIng Diamond release

I'll be all over that when it comes out....

sorry couldn't get past the satanic image junk... my own internal stuff... but just couldn't past it, when I heard "The Oath".... I know it's Mercyful Fate... seems hypocritical to me I could go see Slayer but not him... oh well...

Very strange album title, but at least King is being polite. He IS saying "please."

KING DIAMOND's new album, "Gimme Your Soul ...
Please", will be released in North America on June 26 via Metal Blade
Records. Massacre Records will issue the album in Germany on June 29.



"Gimme Your Soul … Please" track listing:



01. The Dead (King)

02. Never Ending Hill (Andy)

03. Is Anybody Here? (King)

04. Black of Night (Andy)

05. Mirror, Mirror (King)

06. The Cellar (Andy)

07. Pictures in Red (Andy)

08. Gimme Your Soul (King)

09. The Floating Head (Andy)

10. Cold as Ice (King)

11. Shapes of Black (King)

12. The Girl in The Bloody Dress (King)

13. Moving On (King)



Revolver magazine recently reported that KING DIAMOND's new CD was
inspired by a painting called "My Mother's Eyes" which the band's
distributor in Denmark stumbled across while surfing the Net (and which
Diamond has since bought for the new CD cover). The more Diamond looked
at the image of a battered blond girl with blood covering her white
dress, holding out palms affixed with protruding eyeballs, the more it
captivated and inspired him. "I can feel the energy of the front cover
in all the songs we wrote, and it will definitely affect my lyrics," he
promised.



Diamond wrote the music for the new album from December 2005
through February 2006, then recorded the basic tracks in his basement.



"It classes over anything I've ever done," Diamond beamed. "The
arrangements are more intricate, the production is better, and for the
parts where there are violins, it sounds like we hired the Royal
Philharmonic. As long as I don't F*** up the vocals, this should be our
best record."



KING DIAMOND current lineup:



King Diamond - Vocals

Andy La Rocque - Guitar

Mike Wead - Guitar

Hal Patino - Bass

Matt Thompson - Drums

Wish I could get into King Diamond, tried but they do nothing for me sounds interesting though!

Wargod48

I just picked this up today and listened to the first few songs in the car and I like it so far. I think I like it better than the Puppet Master thus far. It has drawn me in more than PM. What are yous guys thoughts?

I picked it up two days after the release. Really good album. Not as good as Abigail though. Also Sovdat is very lucky to talk to King Diamond. I wish I could.

Take back what I said this is a good cd!

Wargod48

it's his best since House Of God imho.

This is sort of off subject, but I read somewhere that King was dating Elton John during the writing/recording of Them. Has anyone heard of this before? I didn't know King was gay or bi or whatever, it doesn't matter because he rules, but just curious.

what? lol that's f*cked up!

if he was gay or bi, i'd like to think that he'd have better taste.

That's just what I read...I don't know. You know the Internet, everything on it is fact . What if there was a way though, that if he was gay that him and Halford could somehow conceive a son that when he was older had such a high falsetto, that he could make people's heads explode? Like in Scanners.

spiritoradio wrote:

What if there was a way though, that if he was gay that him and Halford could somehow conceive a son that when he was older had such a high falsetto, that he could make people's heads explode? Like in Scanners.

haha you are hillarious

you made my night!

mc666 wrote:

haha you are hillarious

you made my night!

Thanks

I don't know, I have a dl of it and I'll definitely buy it sometime, but I haven't give it a proper listening yet - it sounds decent, but I was told that the story behind is really bad (or almost unexistable). Will have to see that for myself

mc666 wrote:

i'll always buy a KIng Diamond release

Me too, and every real metalhead do that without thinking about it.

I picked this up last weekend. GREAT album!!! I personally feel that it's his best since "Conspiracy", though I admittedly haven't heard all of his stuff between then and now.

Out of the King Diamond albums I have purchased I'd rank it like so (yeah, I know I'm missing quite a bit in my KD collection, but I plan on getting all his stuff in 08):

1. Conspiracy (this one will probably always be his masterpiece to me)
2. Them
3. Give Me Your Soul ... Please
4. The Eye


I do have to say that "Give Me Your Soul ... Please" is a great album, but the storyline is a bit lame. Oh well - I'm not one for concept albums anyway. I'm all about the music, so I don't care. Also, I don't really like the album cover - but again - so what.

Anyone else have "Give Me Your Soul ... Please"?

Almost picked this up last night with a gift card, but picked up Jimi Hendrix - Live at Monterey instead.

blackieboy wrote:

I picked this up last weekend. GREAT album!!! I personally feel that it's his best since "Conspiracy", though I admittedly haven't heard all of his stuff between then and now.

Out of the King Diamond albums I have purchased I'd rank it like so (yeah, I know I'm missing quite a bit in my KD collection, but I plan on getting all his stuff in 08):

1. Conspiracy (this one will probably always be his masterpiece to me)
2. Them
3. Give Me Your Soul ... Please
4. The Eye


I do have to say that "Give Me Your Soul ... Please" is a great album, but the storyline is a bit lame. Oh well - I'm not one for concept albums anyway. I'm all about the music, so I don't care. Also, I don't really like the album cover - but again - so what.

Anyone else have "Give Me Your Soul ... Please"?

have you ever heard House Of God? it's in my top 5 KD albums. Give Me Your Soul...Please is his best since House Of God imho.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Very strange album title, but at least King is being polite. He IS saying "please."

But he didn't say w/sugar on top!

I'm gonna buy Them and Conspiracy very soon!