New details revealed about King Diamond’s upcoming album

“Saint Lucifer’s Hospital 1920” is the first instalment of King Diamond’s upcoming horror trilogy, which guitarist Andy La Rocque discussed in a recent interview with Guitar World. He was questioned about his earlier statement that the new King Diamond tracks would somehow harken back to the group’s early recordings.

It’s mainly to get that organic sound back, where everything doesn’t have to be… placed perfectly in time, or even in pitch. There’s got to be some rock ‘n’ roll to it. [Laughs] If you listen to an album that’s totally perfect, it gets boring. We wanted to make an album where it’s a little bit more alive, like it was in the ’80s. We’re trying to avoid the stiffness of the albums of the ’90s and early 2000s. Really, we’re just trying to loosen it up a little bit. Then again, we also had a talk about going back to the roots with the songwriting. Some parts are going back to ‘Fatal Portrait’ and ‘Abigail’ when it comes to the riffing style, but it’s also going to be totally different from what you’ve ever heard from us before.

The record is coming sooner than later then.

We’re going to do some festivals in Europe [this] summer, so everything has to be recorded and done before we do that, that’s for sure. We’re still working on some of the other stuff we have. It’s going to be eight or nine songs on the album, I believe.