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King Diamond - Fatal Portrait



8.4 | 397 votes |
Release date: 17 February 1986
Style: Heavy metal

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486 have it
42 want it


01. The Candle
02. The Jonah
03. The Portrait
04. Dressed In White
05. Charon
06. Lurking In The Dark
07. Halloween
08. Voices From The Past
09. Haunted
10. No Presents For Christmas [Special edition bonus]
11. The Lake

Top 20 albums of 1986: 15

Additional info
Recorded and mixed at Sound Track Studio, Copenhagen, July - August 1985.

Tracks 1 through 4 tell the "Fatal Portrait" story and conclude with track 9.
The remaining tracks are stand alone compositions.

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Comments: 11   Visited by: 343 users
25.02.2015 - 09:44
Rating: 6
Dr. Strawberry

Seems like Vasil de Shumen is a die-hard K.D fanboy. Everytime I clicked K.M's albums I saw his list (Top 200 Metal Masterpieces of All Time).
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25.02.2015 - 14:41
Rating: 9
Vasil de Shumen

Written by Dr. Strawberry on 25.02.2015 at 09:44

... Everytime I clicked K.D's albums I saw his list (Top 200 Metal Masterpieces of All Time).


Not accidental - King Diamond is extremely talented metal musician. All his albums from the 80's (including Mercyful Fate)are really great ...
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25.02.2015 - 15:42
Rating: 8
raveneffect

Don't feed the Troll
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25.02.2015 - 16:46
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Written by raveneffect on 25.02.2015 at 15:42

Don't feed the Troll



Problem is that he isn't a troll, he is dead serious.
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Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal

Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996

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25.02.2015 - 20:15
Rating: 6
Dr. Strawberry

Written by Vasil de Shumen on 25.02.2015 at 14:41

Written by Dr. Strawberry on 25.02.2015 at 09:44

... Everytime I clicked K.D's albums I saw his list (Top 200 Metal Masterpieces of All Time).


Not accidental - King Diamond is extremely talented metal musician. All his albums from the 80's (including Mercyful Fate)are really great ...


No doubt King Diamond's style is unique, such as The Candle, Charon & Helloween are good but the rest of the tracks are just average, especially lurking in the dark is bad that really brought down my rating to this album.
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25.02.2015 - 22:38
Rating: 9
Vasil de Shumen

Written by Dr. Strawberry on 25.02.2015 at 20:15


... the rest of the tracks are just average, especially lurking in the dark is bad ...



Apparently, my criteria are different from your criteria.
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26.02.2015 - 00:18
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Written by Vasil de Shumen on 25.02.2015 at 22:38

Written by Dr. Strawberry on 25.02.2015 at 20:15


... the rest of the tracks are just average, especially lurking in the dark is bad ...



Apparently, my criteria are different from your criteria.


ONe thing everyone learned long ago when Godbuster started posting is that one should never ever listen to anything Godbuster says.

Ffs calling Stioll Life by Opeth post death or Damnation by OPeth post death rock? Making up stuff as he goes along...
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Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal

Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996

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26.02.2015 - 02:43
Rating: 8
raveneffect

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 26.02.2015 at 00:18

Written by Vasil de Shumen on 25.02.2015 at 22:38

Written by Dr. Strawberry on 25.02.2015 at 20:15


... the rest of the tracks are just average, especially lurking in the dark is bad ...



Apparently, my criteria are different from your criteria.


ONe thing everyone learned long ago when Godbuster started posting is that one should never ever listen to anything Godbuster says.

Ffs calling Stioll Life by Opeth post death or Damnation by OPeth post death rock? Making up stuff as he goes along...


There's a post where he calls Accept a "Classic Teutonic Thrash band". Probably one of my favourites. Someone should do a Best Of.
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20.09.2018 - 11:42
Rating: 10
🦇Enchantress

The only non gothic metal band I listen to is King diamond and I love it
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Good has power to create, preserve and destroy but only Devil has a power to possess
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02.05.2020 - 00:30
Rating: 9
Metal Rasputin

Great debut, but not a masterpiece. The songwriting isn't bad, but the band took a huge leap forward after this, lots of fresh ideas presented here, including a horror concept, were perfected on the next four albums. Considering how awesome stuff came out of those ideas, it's no wonder this album also kicks some serious ass.
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You've got a lot of guts. Let's see what they look like!
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03.11.2023 - 05:48
Rating: 7
majormalfunction

A album I would have rated average for a long time. Except for Halloween I found most songs to be nothing special (except for the fantastic guitar leads) but it has grown on me, it's not among their best but solid enough and a good groundwork of what's to come. Charon and Dressed in White are among the better tracks here.
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Everything's twice as bright with money in your hands
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