KING DIAMOND - Abigail 12" Vinyl LP Album

- 2014 Re-Issue of Abigail on Music On Vinyl Records

Musicians:

• King Diamond - All Vocals
• King Diamond – Vocals, keyboards

  The Danish high-priest of the falsetto, whose corpse-paint probably never quite washes off the collar.  Read more...

  Before he was an icon, Kim Bendix Petersen was just another kid in Copenhagen lugging gear through the mid-70s gloom with Brainstorm and Black Rose. By the time Mercyful Fate coalesced in ’81, he’d stopped playing the part of a frontman and started inhabiting something far more unsettling. To hear that first EP is to hear a man daring the listener to laugh at his theatrics, only to realize the music is too sharp, too lethal, to be a joke. When the Fate inevitably fractured in '85—as bands built on such rigid alchemy usually do—the King simply took the candles and the bone-cross with him. His solo output didn't just 'feature' horror; it exhaled it, turning 12-inch vinyl into a physical medium for ghost stories. It’s music that smells of old velvet and cheap stage fog, anchored by a voice that shouldn't work but somehow, impossibly, does. You either buy into the ritual or you don’t, but you never forget the first time that scream hits the speakers. King Diamond Wiki

• Michael Denner - Lead Guitar

    Michael Denner is a Danish heavy-metal guitarist. He is part of the heavy metal duo Denner/Shermann with Hank Shermann . Michael Denner plays guitar with Brats from 1979-1980, "Mercyful Fate" from 1981-1996 (with several interruptions.

• Andy La Roque - Lead Guitar
• Andy LaRocque – Swedish guitar virtuoso behind King Diamond's sound.

  Joined King Diamond in 1985 and turned shred into story-telling, not sport. Read more...

  Andy LaRocque, Swedish guitar virtuoso who joined King Diamond in 1985 and never stopped sharpening the knives. Before the robes and candles, he cut his teeth in Gothenburg hard-rock acts Trafalgar and an early Swedish Erotica in the mid-1980s. I hear his stamp from "Fatal Portrait" (1986) through the 1987–1990 run—"Abigail", "Them", "Conspiracy", "The Eye"—where his leads glide then lunge. After the quiet years he’s back on the 1995–2007 albums ("The Spider’s Lullabye" to "Give Me Your Soul...Please"), keeping the melody cold and precise. He also turns up outside the crypt: guitarist on Death’s "Individual Thought Patterns" (1993) and a guest solo on At the Gates’ "Cold" (1995), then later puts producer ears to work at Sonic Train Studios.

  Andy LaRocque Wiki
• Mikkey Dee - Drums
• Mikkey Dee – Drum legend behind Motörhead, Scorpions, King Diamond

  The guy who can make speed feel heavy and heavy feel fast—without breaking a sweat. Read more...

  Mikkey Dee, Swedish drum legend, hits like a wrecking ball with metronome manners. I first clock him with King Diamond (1985–1989): tearing through "Fatal Portrait" (1986), "Abigail" (1987) and "Them" (1988), then coming back as a session hardcase for "Conspiracy" (1989). He jumps to Don Dokken for the solo blast "Up from the Ashes" (1990), and in 1992 Lemmy snaps him up—Motörhead’s engine room from 1992 to 2015, all muscle, swing, and those grin-inducing drum solos that can run five to fifteen minutes. Since 2016 he’s been driving Scorpions, proving you can be thunderous, clean, and a little dangerous without spilling a beat, night after night.

  Mikkey Dee Wiki

  Micael Kiriakos Delaoglou alias Mikkey Dee started his long career in 1985 with King Diamond, switched to Dokken in 1990, followed by Motorhead and Scorpions today.

• Timi Hansen - Bass
• Timi “Grabber” Hansen – Bassist (Mercyful Fate, King Diamond)

  The man didn't just play the bass; he attacked it with a pick-heavy rattle that became the heartbeat of Danish occult metal.  Read more...

  Timi Hansen earned the name 'Grabber' for a reason. While most metal bassists of the early '80s were content to be felt and not heard, Hansen used his fingers and a relentless pick attack to carve a space for himself between the twin-guitar assault of Shermann and Denner. He was the foundational weight of Mercyful Fate during that lightning-in-a-bottle run from ’81 to ’85, providing a muscular, clattering drive that kept the band’s high-concept theatrics grounded in the gutter. When the King moved on to solo territory, Hansen was the logical choice to anchor the 1985–1987 era, his lines on Abigail pulsing with a sinister, driving urgency that feels like a pursuit. He returned briefly for the '92 reunion—a final, thunderous victory lap—before the rigors of the road took their toll. There’s a specific, trebly grit to his tone that sounds like a Rickenbacker being pushed to its breaking point. It’s a sound that is sorely missed, a reminder that in the right hands, four strings are more than enough to summon a storm.

  Timi “Grabber” Hansen Wiki

Tracklisting Side One:

1. Funeral 1:29
2. Arrival 5:26
3. A Mansion In The Darkness 4:33
4. The Family Ghost 4:05
5. The 7th Day Of July 1777 4:51

Tracklisting Side Two:

1. Omens 3:56
2. The Possession 3:25
3. Abigail 4:52
4. Black Horsemen 7:39