ALBUM: "The Eye" is a concept album by King Diamond released in 1990. It continues to feature a major storyline such as other King Diamond albums, though it is told differently. It is the only King Diamond album to utilize drum programming.
Death Metal, Heavy Metal
RoadrunneR RR 9346
Record Format: 12" Vinyl Stereo Gramophone Record
Total Album (Cover+Record) weight: 230 gram
1990 Made in Holland
This album includes the original custom inner sleeve with lyrics of the songs and portrait photos of the King Diamond band members
Roberto Falcao - Producer
King Diamond - Producer
Andy La Rocque - Producer
Flemming Rasmussen - Producer
Flemming Rasmussen a Danish music producer and engineer who has been active in the industry since the early 1980s. He is best known for his work with the heavy metal band Metallica, for which he produced and engineered several albums including "Ride the Lightning" (1984) and "Master of Puppets" (1986).
Rasmussen got his start in the music industry as an engineer and producer at the legendary Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark. He went on to work with several other prominent bands and artists, including Blind Guardian, Morbid Angel, and Rainbow.
In addition to his work with Metallica, Rasmussen is also known for his collaborations with other heavy metal and rock bands, such as Savatage, Mercyful Fate, and The Scorchers. He has received recognition for his contributions to the music industry and is considered to be one of the top producers and engineers in the heavy metal genre.
Overall, Flemming Rasmussen is a talented and experienced music producer and engineer who has made a significant impact on the heavy metal genre through his work with some of the biggest and most influential bands in the history of the genre.
Roberto Falcao - Producer
Roberto Falcao is producer and sound engineer of the first King Diamond record "No Presents for Christmas" on later "King Diamond" albums, he is guest playing the keyboards.
Flemming Rasmussen - Sound Engineer
Roberto Falcao - Sound Engineer
This album was recorded June-July-August 1990 at: Sweet Silence Studios, Copenhagen, Denmark
SWEET SILENCE STUDIO is a Danish music recording music in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is owned by Freddy Hansson and Flemming Rasmussen (producer of Metallica albums).
Jorgen Bak - Cover Art, Photography
Thomas Holm - Artwork artist
Thomas Holm started his career as art designer in the early 1980's and has done the album covers for bands like: Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, Spartan Warrior, Dark Heart. For the "King Diamond" and "Mercyful Fate" albums he has often been working together with "Thorbjorn Jorgensen".
Thorbjorn Jorgensen - Artwork artist
Thorbjorn Jorgensen a Swedish illustrator and graphic designer and member/founder of the Studio Dzyan in Malmö. Thorbjorn has been working on all the artwork for the albums of Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, S.P.O.C.K, Lord Belial and many others. For the "King Diamond" and "Mercyful Fate" albums he has often been working together with "Thomas Holm".
Alex Solca - Photography
Alex Solca is a photographer with several decades of experience in photographing Heavy Metal bands, these bands include Journey, Dio, Alice Cooper, Fates Warning, King Diamond, Mercyful Fate, Vasco Rossi, Glenn Hughes, Jeff Blades, Jeff Scott Soto, Danzig, Lee Rocker, Reo Speedwagon, Machine Head,Tower of Power, B'Z, Skinlab, Gotthard, Dave Weckl, Kyuss, Christopher Cross, to name just a few.
Orvar Thunstrom - Photography
King Diamond - Vocals, keyboards
Kim Bendix Petersen better known by his stage name King Diamond , is a Danish heavy metal musician. As a vocalist, he is known for his extensive vocal range, in particular his usage of falsetto. He started his career in 1974 with a band called Brainstorm and has since performed with "Black Rose", Brats, "Danger Zone", "Mercyful Fate" and the eponymous "King Diamond" band.
Andy LaRocque - Guitars
Pete Blakk - Guitars
Pete Blakk a guitarist with many years of experience by playing in Danish and Swedish Heavy Metal bands. After the Geisha band split-up he joined "King Diamond" followed by "Blakk Totem"
Hal Patino - BassHasse "Hal" Patino (bass, guitars) is one of the cornerstones of the development of Heavy Metal from Denmark. He performed as Hasse "Hal" Patino in the band " Maltese Falcon ", before joining Geisha in 1988. After the split of Geisha he went together with Pete Blakk to join the King Diamond band.
Snowy Shaw - DrumsSnowy Shaw is a musician mainly drums, who started his career in 1989 by joining the King Diamond's band during their North America tour. In 1990 Snowy Shaw played drum pads on King Diamond's The Eye album. During his long musical career he has performed in many different bands, a list (in no particular order) of the bands in which "Snowy Shaw" has performed: Cans, Dark Embrace, Denner / Shermann, Dimmu Borgir, Dream Evil, Firegod, Illwill, Kee Marcello's K2, King Diamond (DNK), Loud 'n' Nasty, Mad Architect, Memento Mori, Mercyful Fate (DNK), Notre Dame, Snömannen & Hans Vänner, Snowy Shaw, Snowy Shaw and the Star-Spangled Banned, XXX.
Roberto Falcao - Keyboards
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The in yellow boxed areas highlight the text which help to identify this release of the record. These yellow boxes have been drawn on the images and are NOT on the actual label. Record Label Details: RoadRunner RR 9346 1 LC 9321 08-030280-20-1
The in yellow boxed areas highlight the text which help to identify this release of the record. These yellow boxes have been drawn on the images and are NOT on the actual label. Record Label Details: RoadRunner RR 9346 1 LC 9321 08-030280-20-2
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