Just heard the new King Diamond album all the way through and it is brilliant! Excellent songs, melodies, guitarwork and King's singing is just great on this one!

The King talks of that exact subject in an interview in the latest revolver. I'm not going to put it up against any of his prior albums simply cuz of that.

"but, generally speaking, downloading instead of buying is for the scenewhores and bandwagoners."
Tape trading and bootlegging was also for scenewhores, then?
As for the album, it's quite generic and boring. It's nowhere close to the level of Fatal Portrait or Abigail.

QUOTE(JohnWimper @ Jun 24 2007, 06:20 PM) [snapback]383560[/snapback]I'll check it out.
But listen to me guys. MF is always better than KD!
I'm a huge MF fan, but I've never liked 'em as much as KD. Don't know why really. I'm not a big fan of MF's lyrics though, all this "hail satan" is getting kinda boring after listening to a few songs.

QUOTE(Nathan @ Jun 27 2007, 05:00 PM) [snapback]383981[/snapback]"but, generally speaking, downloading instead of buying is for the scenewhores and bandwagoners."
Tape trading and bootlegging was also for scenewhores, then?
As for the album, it's quite generic and boring. It's nowhere close to the level of Fatal Portrait or Abigail.
The tape trading networks were for the trading of demo material, to get a band's name into the open. It wasn't a torrent to download a band's full discography.
Bootlegging is a deplorable practice, as well. Granted, some bands don't particularly care about live material and such, but there's a lot of operations out of Eastern Europe in particular which are illegally pressing albums that are either still in print without any royalties being paid to the bands. Thanks to these people, a lot of classic albums which would have been reissued haven't been, because there've been bootlegs in circulation of those albums, which, in turn, undermines sales of any reissue which would be put into production.

QUOTE(Nathan @ Jun 27 2007, 10:00 PM) [snapback]383981[/snapback]"but, generally speaking, downloading instead of buying is for the scenewhores and bandwagoners."
Tape trading and bootlegging was also for scenewhores, then?
I dont see how you can compare those two methods of getting music.. Tape trading was essential to the scene.. It was something that had to be done, radio didnt play the tracks, magazines didnt interview the bands, stores didnt stock the demos, the internet didnt exist, how else would you get hold of the new shit?
As for the King Diamond album, im definitely looking forward to it, ive heard that one track that is available and really like it. Besides, its the King and Andy..

I've already got the date marked off in my calender for that show.

King Diamond's new cd is pretty amazing
i'm deffenetly going to go to try & see them on their tour next year
03/22/2008 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Culture Room
03/23/2008 Orlando, Florida House of Blues
03/25/2008 Myrtle Beach, South Carolina House of Blues
03/26/2008 Atlanta, Georgia The Masquerade
03/28/2008 Charlotte, North Carolina Tremont Street Music Hall
03/29/2008 Springfield, Virginia Jaxx
03/30/2008 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Trocadero
04/01/2008 New York, New York BB King's Blues Club
04/02/2008 New York, New York BB King's Blues Club
04/04/2008 Poughkeepsie, New York The Chance Theater
04/05/2008 Worcester, Massachusetts The Palladium
04/06/2008 Montreal, Quebec, Canada The Medley
04/07/2008 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada Imperial De Quebec
04/09/2008 Toronto, Ontario, Canada The Opera House
04/10/2008 Cleveland, Ohio Peabody's Down Under
04/11/2008 Detroit, Michigan Harpo's
04/12/2008 Mokena, Illinois The Pearl Room
04/13/2008 Sauget, Illinois Pop's
04/15/2008 St Paul, Minnesota Station 4
04/16/2008 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Garrick Centre
04/18/2008 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Starlite Room
04/19/2008 Calgary, Alberta, Canada MacEwan Hall Ballroom
04/21/2008 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Croation Cultural Centre
04/22/2008 Seattle, Washington El Corazon
04/23/2008 Portland, Oregon Roseland Theater
04/25/2008 San Francisco, California The Filmore
04/26/2008 Los Angeles, California House of Blues
04/27/2008 Anaheim, California House of Blues
04/28/2008 Las Vegas, Nevada House of Blues
04/30/2008 San Diego, California House of Blues
05/01/2008 Phoenix, Arizona Marquee Theater
05/02/2008 Tucson, Arizona Rialto Theater
05/03/2008 Albuquerque, New Mexico Sunshine Theater
05/04/2008 Denver, Colorado Ogden Theater
05/06/2008 Tulsa, Oklahoma Cains Ballroom
05/07/2008 Dallas, Texas House of Blues
05/08/2008 Houston, Texas The Meridian
05/09/2008 New Orleans, Louisiana House of Blues
05/10/2008 San Antonio, Texas White Rabbit

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