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King Diamond @ Playstation Theater

King Diamond returns and is bringing us into the world of his album “Abigail”, this masterpiece of Metal horror storytelling will have the fans thrilled and chilled to the bones. Dare you miss his invitation? That would surely not be wise. Support for this tour comes from Exodus. All tickets purchased under the Best Buy Theater naming will be honored at this performance.

Tour - King Diamond - Fall 2015

King Diamond @ Playstation Theater

King Diamond returns and is bringing us into the world of his album “Abigail”, this masterpiece of Metal horror storytelling will have the fans thrilled and chilled to the bones. Dare you miss his invitation? That would surely not be wise. Support for this tour comes from Exodus. All tickets purchased under the Best Buy Theater naming will be honored at this performance.

Tour - King Diamond - Fall 2015

King Diamond @ Playstation Theater

King Diamond returns and is bringing us into the world of his album “Abigail”, this masterpiece of Metal horror storytelling will have the fans thrilled and chilled to the bones. Dare you miss his invitation? That would surely not be wise. Support for this tour comes from Exodus. All tickets purchased under the Best Buy Theater naming will be honored at this performance.

Tour - King Diamond - Fall 2015

“Live In Concert 1987: Abigail” by King Diamond

Artist: King Diamond
Title: “Live In Concert 1987”
Label: Roadrunner Records
Release Date: 12/1/1990
Genre: Heavy Metal
Rating: 3/5

While this release was remastered a few years ago, my review words are about the previous and hence now unavailable issue of the album. That being said it’s the only one that I own and since I’ve heard the remastering can say that it was not sonically different enough for me to purchase. The King Diamond album “In Concert 1987: Abigail” was originally released by Roadrunner Records back in the days when they were called Roadracer and it captures a very “raw” sounding King Diamond set during the “Abigail” tour. Let’s face it, back in those days we didn’t find a lot of money really being tossed at groups like this and recordings were generally a few well placed microphones and a recorder on the soundboard. In the end you got what you got and had to run with it. With this recording I will say that despite its shortcomings how it is fantastic to have a full live set of King Diamond from the tour for what was to become one of his seminal albums. “Abigail” was the singer’s second album as a solo performer, but also his very first concept album and one that would set the ball rolling in how his musical presentation would continue. Since this was for the “Abigail” tour, the strongest focus of the material was from this album. As it was early in the King’s career I kind of expected a little bit more from his Mercyful Fate tenure but we only get the one tune in “Come To The Sabbath” which is slid in just after the show begins. We also get a couple of numbers from the singer’s debut album “Fatal Portrait” which was something I expected. For those who love the solos on live albums we find two with Andy LaRoque’s guitar solo and Mikkey Dee’s drum solo. Both of these are solid in terms of their technical delivery but there is just something that bores me about listening to these kinds of solos on albums these days as opposed to seeing them in the actual concert. Since I did not see King Diamond way back then I was able to deal with it.
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