In a recent interview with Full Metal Jackie’s radio show, King Diamond revealed that they’ve been currently working on 10 new songs.
“There’s so much, actually. There’s another song we played live, which has not been finished yet, but it’s extremely close,” the musician said of the songwriting process. “But it’s not like we are working on one song at a time; we are working on the entire album.”
He continued, “And so there’s 10 titles right now that’s being worked on simultaneously, and was being worked on before the tour as well. And one is almost done. The lyric is not completely finished, but all the parts for the lyric is there — the way to sing it is there completely. It’s one of the songs that will probably have a guest sharing one of the characters with me, the different moods of that character.”
“And this is a song called ‘Lobotomy,’ which all the music is written except for the guitar solos that the guitarist will do themselves…. There’s an intro and a small outro on that one song, on ‘Lobotomy.’ There’s another song called ‘The Nun’ that has old Hammond [organ] from start to finish, actually — super raw. Lots of stuff — very, very tricky parts, tempo changes,” Diamond detailed the tracks.
The singer added, “And it’s a very full power, double kick. But this one, ‘Lobotomy,’ is heavy and very dark. I played it, just the music, for [Metal Blade Records founder and CEO] Brian Slagel one day at my house and he was, like, ‘That is so dark.’ And it’s turned out exactly like it should. It also has some Hammond parts in it that makes it really crazy, because we’re actually gonna perform it live.”
“And we had an extra wheelchair, actually, on stage that was supposed to be for ‘Lobotomy,’ but ‘Lobotomy’ never got finished completely. So, in Europe, we are hoping that — of course it will be done by [the time we start the European tour] — but we will be able to do ‘Lobotomy’ and show it on stage,” he said of the upcoming shows.
King Diamond released the single ‘Spider Lilly’ on December 17. The song is the first single from the band’s upcoming ‘Horror Trilogy,’ starting with ‘Saint Lucifer’s Hospital 1920.’
