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  • King Diamond, The Institute North American Tour

    December 3, 2019 at The City National Grove, Anaheim CA Heavy metal legend King Diamond made a stop at The City National Grove in Anaheim, California. Alongside opening acts Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, and Idle Hands. Unfortunately, I missed their sets. The tour was called “The Institute” because it’s the name of King Diamond’s upcoming new album. It’s expected…

  • KING DIAMOND: Upcoming shows to be filmed for DVD

    “Philadelphia and Detroit have been selected as the cities in which KING DIAMOND will film the live shows for the forthcoming DVD”, reads the announcement that made my eyes bug out a little upon reading it.  Playing with special guests EXODUS, the shows being filmed are on Wednesday November 25th in Philadelphia and Saturday the…

  • King Diamond / Jess and the Ancient Ones @ Sound Academy, Toronto ON, October 18, 2014

    Review by Sean Palmerston – Concert photos by Adam Wills This was a Saturday night worth remembering. A cold, crisp October evening just a few weeks before Halloween made for a fitting return of King Diamond to a Toronto stage. It had been over ten years since King had played Toronto with any of his…

  • King Diamond on tour with Jess and the Ancient Ones

    … at the Sound Academy in Toronto tomorrow night (Oct 18) – I share with you a taste of Jess and the Ancient Ones’ self-titled album (they have a new EP coming out any week now) as well as a little King Diamond retrospective, courtesy of the Hellbound archives and Gruesome Greg at gruesomeviews.com. Jess and…

  • King Diamond shoes: The Sole of Metal

    … bands like Wolf, Zero Hour and Voivod; showing up at final bell to pick up the older of my two hellions with shoes covered in blood-stained hatchets may send the PTA after me with crucifixes and burning torches. However, after learning that C1rca Shoes are doing a line of shoes dedicated to our favourite…

  • No presents for Christmas…but we wish only the best of health for King Diamond

    Bah, humbug! Christmas has come and gone, and hopefully next year King Diamond’s wish will come true. No presents for Christmas… It’s been a month since his open heart surgery, according to his wife Livia’s posting at the official King Diamond website (covenworldwide.org), and thankfully his recovery is coming along well. Listen to the King…

  • This Week in Metal!

    King Diamond and Nergal going under the knife (all of us at Hellbound wish them all the best and a speedy recovery), Metal Film Festivals, Year End lists and more make up “This Week in Metal”, a weekly feature that features what has gone by the past week. KING DIAMOND Undergoes Triple-Bypass Heart Surgery [blabbermouth.net]…

  • Hellbound @ Tuska Open Air: The Review – Day 1

    … Ziltoid, Bloodbath doing their seventh show, Tarot performing with a full choir, and a whole slew of other great bands that I didn’t think I’d ever have a shot at seeing.  This year’s lineup was nearly as awesome — though missing some of the exclusives.  Big names like King Diamond, Testament, and Nightwish headlined…

  • 3 Inches Of Blood: True Canuck Metal Warriors

    By Sean Palmerston With the recent release of their fourth studio album Here Waits Thy Doom early last month on Century Media, Vancouver’s true metal combo 3 Inches Of Blood have finally made the album many of us have been waiting for with baited breath. With the departure of second vocalist Jamie Hooper after the…

  • Hellbound Interviews : MORBIKON’s “Land” Phil Hall – November 18, 2022

    … me to find out about bands and stuff, it took a little more research, when I bought the book I found out about Mayhem, all these other bands, even King Diamond.  A lot of bands I discovered because of that book, that would definitely be the fathers of black metal, Emperor, Immortal.  Mayhem -…