King Diamond is teaming up with Overkill for the fall 2024 North American tour.
King Diamond announced the tour with the following words on Instagram:
“This is Saint Lucifer’s Hospital. Enter if you dare! 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. 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.”
The group added:
“There will be additional backing vocals by Myrkur and she’ll be playing organ for songs that need it. 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. 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. This is Saint Lucifer’s Hospital, also known as The Institute. Enter if you dare!”
Presales for artists began on July 31 at 10:00 a.m. ET. General tickets go on sale Friday, August 2 at 10:00 a.m. local time. Buy tickets at kingdiamondcoven.com.
King Diamond Has An Upcoming New Album
King Diamond’s last single, ‘Masquerade of Madness,’ came out in 2019. In 2018, the band started working on a new album called ‘The Institute.’ It was supposed to come out in 2020, but now it’s delayed to 2024 or 2025. Frontman King Diamond spoke about the record earlier this year, saying:
“I’m working on four of my songs and the intro and another smaller two-and-a-half-minute thing. And two of them have already been worked on for arrangement, and there’s a third one that’s basically done; we just need to do some mixing of it. We are far. We are very far with a lot of this stuff, I can tell you that. But it’s also —we don’t talk about it all the time. We do our stuff and then we come and then we are ready. We have plans for a long time now, I can tell you.”
King Diamond’s North American tour begins on October 15 in San Antonio, Texas, and ends on December 6 in Dallas, Texas. Besides Overkill, Night Demon will also join as support. Myrkur will provide extra backing vocals.
You can see King Diamond’s IG post below.
