I fucking love King Diamond!! I honestly couldn't stand Mercyful Fate. But I loved the gimmick. It was the age of "backmasking". According to every traveling bodybuilding/ show of strength evangelist there were backward messages in the Led Zeppelin and Black Oak Arkansas tellin the chilren to worship the Satan. I had a buddy who was worried about my Eternal Soul, so I got dragged to a lot of them. It was all secret, sneaking into our fragile little minds. And this dude comes out with like 20 upside down Crosses singing about Satan's nuns. Nothin sneaky there.

The guy just recently went off the reservation in an interview about his cat just died and how much he and wife loved that cat, and how that cat was really a special creature not to them but to the world. Dude loves his cat. He's presidential material. Even my SO doesn't think he's so scary anymore. And she may may let me paint the Boy as KD for Halloween. Maybe the Fatal Portrait era.