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Find two excellent  interviews of King (one in 1997 and another in 1998) here: http://www.hardradio.com

THE FOLLOWING INTERVIEW IS A REAL COLLECTOR :) ! IT IS TAKEN FROM KERRANG! UK MAGAZINE (1983). IT IS ONE OF THEIR FIRST INTERVIEWS (+ POSTER: King wears a funny-amateurish make-up). MALCOM DOME, THE JOURNALIST, WAS ONE OF THE REASONS OF MERCYFUL'S SUCCES (listen to the live song: Nun's have no Fun: (in the bootleg CD: Return of the Living Dead) King dedicated this song for Malcom.  I PUT SOME GREAT EXTRACTS. MALCOME USED SOME WORDS FROM THIS INTERVIEW FOR THE "THEM" BOOKLET, TOO.

    " Having championed the cause of these Danish decibelic demons from afar, I must say meeting 'em in the flesh as it were during their recent visit to lens-mate Fin Costello's central London photographic studio (part of their flying trip to Britain), brought a warm glow to the cockless of my stayed of my stayed of my staked-out heart.
    For, this is no disappointing bunch of pseudo-black metallurgists in the Demon mouldy-mould (nice guys, if you like showroom dummies). Oh no, King Diamond/Iimi Grabber/Michael Denner/Hank Shermann/Kim Ruzz are definitely vein-glorious sick-ophantics, ready an' scheming to follow Venom over the threshold and into the abyss. Or at least vocal sprite Diamond most certainly is! " I'm not a member of a Satan coven. But I do pray a little to 'him' back in Denmark.I've got a black altar in my home, with two black candles allways burning. In the middle of it is a human skull, and a gold, inverted cross. I got into satanism because of the strange experiences I had when I was yonger. A lot of things happened that I can't really describe now. An important event that got me into this was a dream I had a few years ago. It was rather nasty, I dreamed I saw a big black book and a picture of a strange lady on the back. As I looked, she suddently came to life! I tried screaming for help to my brother who shared a bedroom with me. But, No sound came out! The mysterious lady beckoned me to follow her, and I felt compelled to do so. I then found myself in the center of a coven of thirteen hooded, shadowy figures, all of whom were pointing at me saying 'you are living on borrowed time'. I woke up in real sweat, I can tell you. It was a truly horrifying nightmare. After that, I began to investigate more deeply into the mystical side of life." (...)
    Believe it or not, there is a fun side to the band (and Diamond's) Luciferic interest - fun that is, if you happen to have Gomez and Morticia Addams (of Addams Family fame) for parents! " We really wanna get people into a certain mood at our gigs, rather than just nodding their heads to the music. On stage I always wear the same type of make-up because it represents Death and makes me feel rather maniacal. We also use a few props. One of my favourite tricks was a thing the band did in Eindhoven once. One of our roadies gave us a small volume of his own blood, which I put into a glass vial. We had two crossed goose feathers on our altar that night, and were gonna perform a Satanic ritual whereby human blood is sprinkled on the feathers and they come to life. When we did it, I smashed the vial onto the altar, and then smeared my face in the blood. The fans obviously thought it was theatrical blood, and reached out to touch my hands. It was only then that they realized this was real blood, and some of them turned visibly ill! Unfortunately we had to drop this part of the act, 'cause although it had a great effect on the kids in the first two rows, anyone further back in the hall wasn't aware of anything happening. When I was in my previous band Black Rose, I used to split open a pig's head before we went on stage and then filled up a doll with the entrails and blood. Once the gig had starded I would ritually sacrifice this doll in a satanic manner, again smearing myself in blood, and throwing the guts in the audience. It got a reaction from them if nothing else!
    " (...) A new MF LP is due to hit the shops, entitled "Into the Coven" (!!!) it would available sometime in mid-May and features some tremendous new material.........
 
 

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