King Diamond & Mercyful Fate: The Corpse-Paint Originators the World Forgot Were Danish

Sat, 17 Jun 2023 09:00:00 +0000

Play a certain kind of metal fan a burst of high, keening falsetto over galloping twin guitars, show them a face painted white with black around the eyes and a microphone stand built from what looks like a human femur and an inverted cross, and they’ll nod along to a story about Norwegian forests, church fires and the early 1990s. They’ll be wrong by roughly a decade and about 900 kilometres. The man who assembled most of that vocabulary was a Copenhagen singer named Kim Bendix Petersen, and he’d finished doing it before anyone in Bergen or Oslo had recorded a note. That the wider public still can’t place him — or his country — is one of the stranger accounting errors in heavy music.

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King Diamond & Mercyful Fate: The Corpse-Paint Originators the World Forgot Were Danish