KING DIAMOND - "Gimme Your Soul … Please"

Dime78 · Message par **Dime78** » 08 mai 2007, 11:06

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Merde je croyais que c'était un surnom lol

brother of steel · Message par **brother of steel** » 08 mai 2007, 12:49

Ad Metal Eternam a écrit :Punaise, mais d'où sortez-vous donc tous ces groupes aux noms impensables ?

La Salope à l'Enclume... c'est vrai que c'est très imaginatif tout ça!

Fully · Message par **Fully** » 18 mai 2007, 10:56

"Never Ending Hill" un titre du nouvel album peut être telechargé gratuitement :

http://www.downloadpunk.com/?webaction= ... umid=18099

Gaëtan · Message par **Gaëtan** » 18 mai 2007, 13:33

C'est du Kiki !!!

blackoum · Message par **blackoum** » 18 mai 2007, 15:03

je ne l'ai pas telechargé, mais j'ai écouté le sample, une trentaine de secondes et apperemment, ça devrait être du bon. de toutes manières j'acheterai quand même.

Ad Metal Eternam · Message par **Ad Metal Eternam** » 18 mai 2007, 15:09

On est en terrain connu... Un peu trop connu, même.

J'attends tout de même l'album, mais si c'est aussi banal que ce titre, ça va encore être une déception... Ca devient une habitude en 2007

over'phil · Message par **over'phil** » 19 mai 2007, 15:56

en principe en concert en france
le 27 Novembre à Paris (Loco)
le 28 Novembre à nantes

J'attends la confirmation

Dave · Message par **Dave** » 19 mai 2007, 20:27

faut mettre ça dans la rubrique "Hell on Stage" !!!
super news si ça se confirme !!!!

Message par **Everflow** » 22 mai 2007, 00:01

Fully a écrit :"Never Ending Hill" un titre du nouvel album peut être telechargé gratuitement :

http://www.downloadpunk.com/?webaction= ... umid=18099

Pas mal. Mais un peu décevant à mon goût pour du King.

M'enfin, pris à part comme ça ce n'est pas super important, j'ai toute confiance dans l'album quand même!

lelite · Message par **lelite** » 22 mai 2007, 15:33

Je trouve l'extrait proche de l'esprit Mercyful Fate, donc très bon

Message par **Everflow** » 14 juin 2007, 23:35

King explique le concept de l'album :

http://www.anarchymusic.net/2007/06/kingdiamond

King Diamond: "Our distributor in Denmark called our tour manager who does all kinds of stuff with us and said, 'I just saw a painting on some artist's web site that I think you should check out.' We checked it out and it was right up our alley. We bought the artwork from the guy. That was a long time ago.

"The story is not based on the front cover, but naturally you want the cover to be a part of the story. We changed the cover to fit the story. Originally it was called 'My Mother's Eyes,' and the little girl was standing there with eyeballs in her hand, but they aren't there anymore to fit the story. We added a frame around the actual piece of artwork so now it looks like it's a mirror hanging on a wall that you see this girl in a bloody dress in. You see a shadow also on the side of the mirror on the wall as if you yourself was standing there looking at that mirror. That thing around the mirror was taken from the mirror I had hanging in my hallway. It has a lot to do with me. Now you know that the frame around that mirror that you see there is the frame I have around the mirror in my hallway.

"Overall, as is the case with many other KING DIAMOND stories than this one, there is so much more of me in these stories than I would ever like to admit. That's always been the case. After a story has been written, I sit down and look at it and I say, 'Oh my god, how could I show so much of myself in this?' Surely some of these things are purely imagination but there are certainly things that I've experienced myself and other things that I've experienced but I've changed them to fit the story. It's a full-concept horror story. Something about the story that is very different than anything I've done before is that I wanted to try to write this story in the present time, instead of it happening in the past and being told. It's almost like a horror story with music but kind of like '24'. It happens as you listen to it on this album. Not inspired by '24', even though I love that show, but it's that kind of thing. It takes place as you listen to it, which there's definitely a chance that it won't work but i think it worked perfectly."

painkillerqueen · Message par **painkillerqueen** » 19 juin 2007, 12:26

Dark Schneider · Message par **Dark Schneider** » 22 juin 2007, 23:00

Fangface a écrit :
Fully a écrit :"Never Ending Hill" un titre du nouvel album peut être telechargé gratuitement :

http://www.downloadpunk.com/?webaction= ... umid=18099
Pas mal. Mais un peu décevant à mon goût pour du King.

M'enfin, pris à part comme ça ce n'est pas super important, j'ai toute confiance dans l'album quand même!

Bien mais quelconque. Et le riff est pompé sur Painkiller.

Aparamment, l'album serait correct mais en dessous du Puppet master. Et dire que KIng n'a pas arreté de dire que c'est son meilleur album et tout.

hallowedhail · Message par **hallowedhail** » 23 juin 2007, 11:45

Cool ca sort le jour de mon anniversaire!

Message par **Everflow** » 28 juin 2007, 20:42

ça sort demain

Une nouvelle interview très détaillée du King pour la peine :

http://www.metal-rules.com/zine/index.p ... iew&id=944

A lire absolument pour les fans

Message par **Everflow** » 01 juil. 2007, 21:39

Et si vous avez lu l'interview ci-dessus, voici encore un peu de lecture avec un long message de King posté sur le forum officiel du groupe, où il explique pourquoi à son sens c'est leur meilleur album.

King Diamond a écrit :"Hail to all of you. I've been checking up on the postings to get a feel for what all of you think about the brand new album, and I'm really glad to see that all the hard work was not in vain. It's such a great kick in the ass to see that by far the majority here has the same opinion about the album as we in the band have ourselves.
Of course it's never cool to find out that not everyone of our fans enjoy what we feel is our strongest ever, but I guess it's extremely hard to please everybody's taste. So for those of you who have stated disappointment, maybe the next album will give you more of the entertainment style that you're after if you hang around 'till then.

"I know we'll be talking Sunday [in an online chat], but I just saw a couple of posting today that really bothered me because they were quite negative and totally untrue, the kind of posting that start bad rumours:

"One posting stated that Livia and I sing a lot simultaneously on the new album, and that she sings all the high parts because my voice can't do what it used to do.

"ANSWER: First of all there is not one single spot on this new album where Livia and I sing at the same time, whether in harmony or not, unlike what we did on 'The Puppet Master' album.

"For those of you who are interested in who is singing what on the new album, it's quite simple if you have the lyrics. Everything in quotation marks is Livia's voice and Livia's voice only. Everything that is not in quotation marks is me. The amount Livia sings on this album is about the same as on 'The Puppet Master', but it is spaced out very differently as the lyrics will clearly show you. Livia has big blocks in the intro and on 'Moving On'. Apart from that, Livia mostly does two-three lines in the songs she's singing on, and about half the songs I sing completely alone.

"Hope this clarifies who sings what.

"I would like to state once and for all that the strength of my voice has never been better, and my range has never been higher.

"Regarding the strength, let me tell you how my vocals were recorded: Over a three-week period I sang in the studio Monday and Tuesday 6 1/2 hours straight each day, only interrupted by fetching a cup of coffee every hour or so. Wednesday was used to rest the voice, and then Thursday and Friday I sang again for approximately 6 1/2 hours each day straight. First Saturday was used to write the lyrics for the song 'The Girl In The Bloody Dress', which might seem quick, but keep in mind that most of the lyric was already there in all my notes. First Sunday was rest. Second week was identical to the first week with the exception of writing the lyrics to 'Moving On'. Third week, same schedule, but no lyrics to write.

"Regarding the range of my voice: I can reach higher with better control than ever before. It might not be that noticeable since some of the highest falsettos often are merely a part of an eight-voice 3-4 harmony choir part.

"One thing that I kind of knew when Andy [LaRocque, guitar] and I made the decision to go a specific way with the sound during the mixing, was that my voice would sound much more natural and much more detailed than before, thereby not losing all the emotions and special moods that the vocals were done in. In the past we used to follow normal standard procedures which means using lots of compression on everything which is a thing that can be good for some kinds of music, but for music that has so many different moods and sound that must be fitted into the sound picture (drums, bass, two to four rhythm guitars, guitar solos, lead vox and lead double vocals plus eight backing vocals plus Livia's vocals plus the occasional violins, cellos, harpsichord, organ/church organ), as we have, compression can really work against you because it has a tendency to wash things out and thereby losing detail and clarity. We chose to go with way less compression than is standard.

"Some of this shit I'm writing now might not make too much sense unless you are familiar with recording procedures but to try and make a long story short, the difference between the overall sound of everything on this new album, compared to earlier albums, is that everything we recorded can be heard. Nothing got washed away. As you might have noticed, everything Hal [Patino] does on his bass can be heard, unlike most albums that are produced today.

"Regarding the vocals: When it comes to the falsetto vocals, they are not as piercing in sound as they often have been before for the exact reasons I stated earlier with the compression, but even more so because we left my vocals completely alone, meaning that no equalization was used on my vocals this time. They are one hundred percent natural sounding unlike earlier where the standard often was to cut away low sound frequencies to clear up the voice because of all the compression and then add some mid-high frequencies again for the same reason to bring back some of the lost clarity due to the excessive use of compression. This procedure often resulted in losing the emotions that were originally in the recorded vocals, and that the falsettos often became unnaturally high pitched and almost irritating to even my ears.

"There are in fact more and higher falsettos on this album than ever before (especially in the backing vocals), but because of the above, they might not seem as penetrating but actually more pleasing to the ear, I think. I guess it's a matter of taste, but it sure brings out a lot more of the orginal emotions in the voice.
I hope some of this made sense. It's really hard to explain in writing.

"WHY DO I HOLD MATT [drums] BACK? I DON'T!!!!! Again, there are things being posted which is nothing more than guessing without any reality to back it up. Of course none of you know how things work within the band whether we are recording, on tour, or whatever. But I guess this is a good way to inform you.

"Regarding drums: The procedure is that Matt gets the raw demos and usually works on the songs for months before we go into the studio. He usually has at least 4-5 full different versions of drumming for each song. When recording a song, Matt will usually warm up while playing all his different versions which we already at that point start recording. Matt will come into the control room where Andy and I, but mostly me and then Matt will listen through all his different suggestions. About 90% of the drumming that you hear on a song is a mix of all of Matt's different suggestions plus some of my suggestions and occasionally Andy's, and I can assure you that some of the suggestions I have are not simple. There are lots of examples on this album if you really pay attention. Just as a tiny example of what might pass right by you if you don't pay attention is for instance the kick drum pattern in the 'sneaky' parts of 'The Girl In The Bloody Dress'. You try figure that pattern out. I must say that to my amazement, Matt picked it out perfect in less than two minutes. After Matt heard the final mixes, he called me and commented the following, 'I can't believe you let me get away with this!' I replied, 'Get away with what? It's never a question of getting away with anything and you know how much I enjoy when you come up with some of these 'out-there ideas' that I would never have imagined would enhance a certain riff or add to the song as a whole.' Further, in KING DIAMOND we always test any idea no matter how crazy it might seem before we decide if it works for a song or not.

"There's absolutely no holding anybody back, and I can guarantee all of you out there that everybody in the band has the attitude that we all play our different parts for the good of the songs and not with the attitude of musicians with big egos who just want to show off regardless of whether what they do fits a certain song or not. There are and have always been plenty of space for everyone to show what they can do without jeopardizing the flow of a song. It's very much the same procedure when it comes to Hal's bass parts. I'm very pleased that what he does on this album is so easy to hear because he literally blows me away with all the stuff he brought to this album. I do have a little finger in some of the bass parts but for the majority it is Hal and Hal's ideas you hear. Hal's quote: 'These are the best bass lines I've ever put down on a record and you can actually hear them too.' I agree a million percent. A quote from Andy: 'I don't think I have composed solos of this quality since 'The Eye'.' Again, I totally agree. A quote from Mike [Wead]: 'I have never been so inspired to compose solos as I am for this new album.' Mike, you outdid yourself in my opinion. Your solos fucking rock!!! You know how I told you, that you made the hair stand on my arms when I heard your revised solo for 'Shapes of Black'. Your first solo for that song was certainly not bad but it didn't quite bring the right mood to that piece, and one phone call later. King: 'Could you try and do a second version where you construct your solo more around the keyboard theme that goes in the background than the actual front rythm guitars?' You sent back something that was way beyond what I had expected and hit the nail so fucking right on the head.

"The way we all worked together at any stage of the making of this new album is by far the best I have ever experienced. Everybody was on the same page the whole way. I already told you band guys this personally but this is more for all of you here on the website.

"One thing that not many of you probably think about is the fact that Andy at this point in time has completely incorporated my technique of playing guitar into his own technique, and on this album it has been extremely gratifying for me to hear the songs I wrote played a hundred percent the way they were intended.
For Livia I think she did one hell of a job portraying the character of 'The Little Girl In The Bloody Dress'.

"Time to go rest my back but before I fumble my way back into by bedroom with all the shapes of black waiting on my bed I would like to say on behalf of everyone in the band, that we sincerely feel that this is our best performance ever. Some will hopefully agree, others might not agree, but at least give the album more than just one listen in the car cause that way you are going to miss half of what's in there. I personally feel that this album is one that needs a few more than just three listens before you really start to find all the stuff that was put into it.

"It's good nightmare time for me now. Hope to talk to some of you on Sunday."

Cardinal-Sin · Message par **Cardinal-Sin** » 02 juil. 2007, 17:42

achat réalisé, plus qu'à le savourer

Dave · Message par **Dave** » 02 juil. 2007, 18:37

Excellent ! ce gars est un putain de passionné ! un grand artiste vraiment !
Faut que j'aille acheter ça cette semaine tiens !!

Cardinal-Sin · Message par **Cardinal-Sin** » 02 juil. 2007, 20:41

rhaaa putain il est superbe ce disque! j'ai que 2 écoutes mais il me fait déjà l'effet d'une petite bombe, les guitares, le son, le chant sont énormes, les compos superbe! un très grand cru

Big Henry · Message par **Big Henry** » 03 juil. 2007, 18:45

Pour le moment, je retiens surtout "The Cellar", "Give Me Your Soul" et le sublime "The Floating Head". A priori j'aurais envie de dire que c'est un très bon album, un poil inférieur tout de même à Puppet Master.
Faudra voir avec le temps.

Gaëtan · Message par **Gaëtan** » 10 juil. 2007, 14:09

Pareil, cet album est juste absolument excellent au lieu d'être excellentissime !

Non mais sérieux, c'est encore du tout bon !!!

Message par **Everflow** » 10 juil. 2007, 20:22

Entrée en n°58 des charts danois.

Et... c'est tout

Gaëtan · Message par **Gaëtan** » 11 juil. 2007, 11:59

Non !
Il est 1er dans les charts de ce mois-ci chez moi, sur mon lecteur mp3, et sur mon autoradio !!

Fonz · Message par **Fonz** » 11 juil. 2007, 12:31

Gaëtan a écrit :Non !
Il est 1er dans les charts de ce mois-ci chez moi, sur mon lecteur mp3, et sur mon autoradio !!

Le mp3 c'est de la couille !!! c'est pour les falses !!! la honte !!!

LA vrai zic sa s'écoute en CD, sans déformation aucune !

Gaëtan · Message par **Gaëtan** » 11 juil. 2007, 12:45

Ben quand je pars en vadrouille à pieds, je préfère avoir un lecteur mp3 dans la poche qu'un discman, tu m'excuseras...

Larry · Message par **Larry** » 11 juil. 2007, 13:56

Fonz a écrit :
Gaëtan a écrit :Non !
Il est 1er dans les charts de ce mois-ci chez moi, sur mon lecteur mp3, et sur mon autoradio !!
Le mp3 c'est de la couille !!! c'est pour les falses !!! la honte !!!
LA vrai zic sa s'écoute en CD, sans déformation aucune !

Pour le coup je suis impatient que d'ici quelques années ils arrêtent le format skeud pour que t'aies encore plus l'air d'un vieux con