Ever-enigmatic heavy metal pioneer King Diamond sure hasn’t made it easy for media to preview his upcoming tour, which kicks off this Tuesday at San Antonio’s Boeing Center at Tech Port.
The Danish singer has eschewed press interviews — sorry, folks, we tried — and he’s also known to take a conceptual approach to tours, crafting them around stories from his elaborate mythos. Adding to the confusion, he’s recently toured with Mercyful Fate, the act he helmed in the 1980s and periodically returns to.
Just the same, King Diamond has released a press statement to let fans know what to expect from the latest tour, Saint Lucifer’s Hospital 1920, which will crisscross North America, wrapping up in early December.
“We have been busy putting this ever-growing horror story together, and it’s still growing. I know the end of it, but how we will get there will be a long trip,” King Diamond said in a statement released to music site Blabbermouth. “There are so many characters and so many unexpected things along this journey. It’s a crazy family on another timeline in 1920, where I experienced some hard times, and they have to come to our time to steal from us to survive. This is the most elaborate thing we have ever done, that goes for the stage production as well.”
Thrash progenitors Overkill and trad-metal power trio Night Demon will open the San Antonio show. Myrkur — a Danish solo artist who’s drawn critical nods for blending black metal and Scandinavian folk — will provide background vocals and occasional organ for King Diamond’s performance.
“There will be some horrific surprises taking place on stage, but we are not to be held responsible since we are on a whole different timeline in 1920,” King Diamond continued in the statement. “It was back at the time when medicine was going through a dark period with lots of testing on human beings in order to progress medicine.”
Consider yourself warned, San Antonio metalheads.
$35-$94.50, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15, Boeing Center at Tech Port, 3331 General Hudnell Drive, (210) 600-3699, boeingcentertechport.com.
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