Heavy metallers King Diamond are preparing to enter the studio to begin writing and recording the long-awaited follow-up to 2007's Give Me Your Soul... Please album. The writing and recording process has been delayed a few times before. The band is also putting the finishing touches on the Blu-ray and DVD filmed during King's 2015-2016 "Abigail In Concert" tour. The Blu-ray and DVD will contain two full concerts, one recorded at an indoor venue in 2015 in Philadelphia and other at the outdoor Graspop Metal Meeting festival in 2016 in Belgium.

King Diamond's frontman talked about their plans for the coming months during an appearance on Eddie Trunk's SiriusXM radio show. He said: "As soon as the DVD is finished ? it'll be a matter of two or three weeks ? [guitarist Andy La Rocque] is showing up here [in Frisco, Texas] to initiate my home studio where I'm gonna do all the vocals for a brand new King Diamond studio album."

According to King Diamond, the album story line is 80% done and "There's some very unique things I'm putting into it this time where you will relate to some of the sounds you hear on it, 'cause it's sounds that you will hear on certain days in your private life. You're outdoors, or whatever, and you might hear certain sounds and you will, guaranteed, think, if you heard the album, 'I wonder if that thing King talked about could have happened when I heard that sound here.'"

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