Remember: The Baby Face Thing in King Diamond’s New Single “Spider Lilly” Can’t Hurt You
Earlier today, the man himself King Diamond dropped a new single dubbed “Spider Lilly”, as well as an accompanying music video. And while the song itself is pretty cool and part of his forthcoming Horror Trilogy, it’s the video that got me a little rattled this afternoon.
You see, throughout the video, we get to see some cool shots of King Diamond and the band rocking out and that’s cool. But occasionally you see various characters in states of turmoil interacting with the song, usually by singing along. But one in particular gave me the heebie jeebies — that creepy maybe it’s AI, maybe it isn’t baby faced King Diamond look-alike. Something about that… thing… just rubs me the wrong way, man.
Still, after getting over that disturbing hurdle, the video’s pretty cool and gives us a glimpse of the band, comprised of King Diamond himself, Andy La Rocque and Mike Wead on guitars, Pontus Egberg on the bass, and Matt Thompson on drums. The track also includes a special guest appearance by Danish female vocalist Myrkur on backing vocals.
Portions of the video were filmed at Pennhurst Asylum, located just outside of Philadelphia. As one of two people involved in that shoot, along with actress Jodi Cachia, King Diamond said the experience was one he won’t forget.
“What a dark but great experience. Hopefully that was not the last video we will be able to film there.”
As it stands, we’ve been waiting to hear more about a new album from King Diamond called The Institute for a while now. And while we don’t know much more about that at the moment, the mention of a “Horror Trilogy” makes it sound like we might be getting even more from him than originally expected.
If you’d like to catch King Diamond live, he’ll be playing across Europe next year. You can find the full list of dates below.
6/4 Sölvesborg, Sweden Sweden Rock Festival
6/6 Gdansk, Poland Mystic Festival
6/7 Berlin, Germany Columbiahalle (w/ Paradise Lost & Angel Witch)
6/8 Plzen, Czech Republic Metalfest Plzen
6/10 Wiesbaden, Germany Schlachthof (w/ Paradise Lost & Angel Witch)
6/11 Tilburg, Netherlands 013 (w/ Paradise Lost & Angel Witch)
6/13 Oberhausen, Germany Turbinenhalle (w/ Paradise Lost & Angel Witch)
6/14 Ludwigsburg, Germany Mhp Arena (w/ Paradise Lost & Angel Witch)
6/16 Milan, Italy Alcatraz (w/ Paradise Lost)
6/17 Zurich, Switzerland Komplex 457 (w/ Paradise Lost)
6/20 Copenhagen, Denmark Copenhell
6/22 Dessel, Belgium Graspop Metal Meeting
6/26 Cartagena, Spain Rock Imperium Festival
6/30 Manchester, England Manchester Academy (w/ Paradise Lost & Unto Others)
7/1 London, England The Roundhouse (w/ Paradise Lost & Unto Others)
7/3 Ballenstedt, Germany Rockharz Festival
7/5 Dunaujvaros, Hungary Rockmaraton
7/8 Bucharest, Romania Arenale Romane (w/ Unto Others)
7/9 Sofia, Bulgaria Arena Sofia (w/ Unto Others)
7/10 Athens, Greece Rockwave Festival
7/31 Bergen, Norway Beyond The Gates Festival
8/8 Helsinki, Finland Hellsinki Metal Fest
