Defenders Of The Faith, le forum Metal

King Diamond: "Time will tell, at the moment we are focusing on KING DIAMOND, and there are some very specific reasons for this. The way that the music business has taken a turn because of all the downloading stuff — a lot of these sites that say that they pay artists money, well, they don't pay shit. They don't do accounts and they just sell it and they ask you for a license to sell it, and they have none and it's a mess! I think most of the labels have lost 30% of their sales, and that a big thing. And when it comes to MERCYFUL FATE compared to KING DIAMOND, well, KING DIAMOND always sold more albums than MERCYFUL FATE. KING DIAMOND always had better record contracts, more people at the shows and this and that, in general has always done quite a bit better.

"These days we do have a contract for MERCYFUL FATE, so if we were ready to do an album we could do it, but the thing is that today, because of how the scene is, it's impossible for me to live off MERCYFUL FATE. I still love what I'm doing, otherwise I wouldn't do it, I'd do something else. But I still love the music so much, but it is also a job. I'm fortunate to live off my hobby, you could say, but you have to put bread on the table, you know, and if there was only MERCYFUL FATE today I'd have to do something else. MERCYFUL FATE — I could not live from. I can still live from KING DIAMOND, and since that's what I love to do we're continuing that way. MERCY might do an album if suddenly there is a time period where there is nothing to do for KING DIAMOND. Because it has to be like just a hobby, not a thing where I can take time out and do MERCYFUL FATE because I'll make no money in it. It would be the same like if I said OK I'm going on vacation for 5-6 months and have no income at all — you can't really do that with KING DIAMOND, it's a different thing. So, that's the reason why there has been no MERCY for a while. It's the way it has to be with all the free downloading and stuff, it hurt MERCY more than KING DIAMOND. It became much more difficult that way."

gandalf a écrit :Exactement comme Oliva qui gagne beaucoup d'argent avec TSO mais rien avec Savatage...

Sgt_toxic a écrit :ça fait un moment que je m'interroge sur ce groupe ou ce projet et tes explications, gandalf, m'ont bien aider ainsi que leur site alors je crois que je vais m'en choper un à l'occassion.

Cardinal-Sin a écrit :perso ça me gêne pas, je trouve les derniers King Diamond beaucoup plus intéressants que les derniers Mercyful Fate en fait... le seul truc qui me gêne c'est que j'ai jamais vu King Diamond

Cardinal-Sin a écrit :bah pour la France le King est passé il y a 2 ou 3 ans à Lille sur la tournée House Of God je crois

MERCYFUL FATE/FORCE OF EVIL guitarist Hank Shermann has announced plans to record a solo album, tentatively due in March 2007. "I have 'tons' of ideas and unused material dating back to the days of MERCYFUL FATE in the early '80s , and also it will be my 30-year anniversary as a guitar player," Shermann states.

MERCYFUL FATE was presented with the "award of honor" at the Danish Metal Awards 2006, which were held last night (Saturday, November 18) at Amager Bio in Copenhagen, Denmark. Original members Michael Denner (guitar), Hank Shermann (guitar), Timi "Grabber" Hansen (bass) and Kim Ruzz (drums) appeared in public together for the first time in 22 years to accept the award (vocalist King Diamond was unable to attend the event due to the fact that he currently resides in Dallas, Texas).

Gandalf a écrit :Trans-Siberian-Orchestra.
Un projet produit par Paul O'neill, le complice de Oliva dans beaucoup de paroles et musiques de Savatage a partir de "Gutter Ballet", et producteur depuis "HOTMK", où sont impliqués Oliva et les autres membres de Savatage epoque "Dead winter Dead", à différent degrés.
C'est tout mignon, moi j'aime beaucoup, et ca cartonne aux USA depuis le premier album "Christmas Eve and other stories". Le déclencheur fut le titre "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24", présent sur l'album "Dead Winter Dead" de Savatage. Le titre a été sorti sur les radios bien apres la sortie de l'album, mais bizarrement il a cartonné aux US, et ce projet engrange enormement de public et d'argent la bas.

C'est pas du Savatage, c'est beaucoup de choeurs, des chansons de Noel pour le premier, tout un concept sur Beethoven pour un autre...Tres bien foutu, beaucoup de titres par albums...Ca marchera jamais en europe

Le site officiel:
http://www.trans-siberian.com/index-main.php

Fangface a écrit :Michael Denner, Hank Shermann, Timi Hansen et Kim Ruzz, c'est à dire 4/5 du line-up de Mercyful Fate des années 80, se sont retrouvés en public pour la première fois en 22 ans, dans le cadre des Danish Metal Awards 2006. Ils ont reçu un "award of honor", sans King Diamond, absent :

The Danish newspaper Nyhedsavisen conducted a test yesterday (Tuesday, January 23) to see if the residents of Copenhagen, Denmark are generally helfpul and accomodating with one another. As part of the test, they had an old lady (Alice) drop a bag of groceries from the supermarket on the street to see if someone would take the time to assist her or everyone would just ignore her and go about his/her own business. The first person to help was none other than Michael Denner of MERCYFUL FATE/KING DIAMOND (see scan of article; Denner is in the photo on the upper right). Denner, who was getting off a bus, spotted Alice right away and immediately came to her aid.

Commented Denner: "When you're healthy and in good shape, you might as well help. It is in fact a pleasure to have the opportunity to act like a real gentleman. But if I were on my way to an important meeting, I'm not sure I would stop to help."