King Diamond - Fatal Portrait
| Release date: | 17 February 1986 |
| Style: | Heavy metal |
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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: 14
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: 14
Lyrics Kim "King Diamond" Bendix Petersen - vocals
Anders "Andy LaRocque" Allhage - guitars, keyboards
Michael Denner - guitars
Michael "Mikkey Dee" Delaouglou - drums
Timi Hansen - bass
Session musicians
Roberto Falcao - keyboards
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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| Dr. Strawberry Posts: 698  |
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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| Vasil de Shumen Posts: 344  |
Written by Dr. Strawberry on 25.02.2015 at 09:44 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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| raveneffect Posts: 541  |
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071  |
Written by raveneffect on 25.02.2015 at 15:42 Problem is that he isn't a troll, he is dead serious.
---- 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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| Dr. Strawberry Posts: 698 |
Written by Vasil de Shumen on 25.02.2015 at 14:41 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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| Vasil de Shumen Posts: 344 |
Written by Dr. Strawberry on 25.02.2015 at 20:15 Apparently, my criteria are different from your criteria.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by Vasil de Shumen on 25.02.2015 at 22:38 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...
---- 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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| raveneffect Posts: 541 |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 26.02.2015 at 00:18 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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| 🦇Enchantress Posts: 15  |
The only non gothic metal band I listen to is King diamond and I love it
---- Good has power to create, preserve and destroy but only Devil has a power to possess
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| Metal Diogenes Posts: 1303  |
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.
---- You've got a lot of guts. Let's see what they look like!
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| majormalfunction Posts: 1510  |
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.
---- Everything's twice as bright with money in your hands
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