#666 : King Diamond / Mercyful Fate

Dean Delray's LET THERE BE TALK

Dean Delray

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🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Summary

Episode 666 is here and what better guest to have than the legend himself King Diamond of Mercyful Fate.

King and I sat down today for a long In-Depth conversation on all things King Diamond including, Influences, Songwriting, Lyrics, Mercyful Fate and even some Car Talk.

Mercyful Fate and King Diamond have been a massive influence to the metal world and it was an Honor to sit down with the King.

I hope you all enjoy this episode.

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0:00.0	All right, here we are September 26th. It is a Monday and it is episode number
0:06.2	666 today. 6666 the number of the beast. Yes. I cannot believe that I've done
0:17.6	666 episodes of Let The Be Talk over the last 11 years and I have slowly
0:24.2	clicked off dream guess. I cannot even believe the guess I've had on this show. I
0:30.7	booked the show. I edit the show. I record the show and it has been a lot of
0:36.6	fucking hard work but the daily emails and the Patreon support just really
0:44.7	make me feel like I'm doing the right thing. I love what I'm doing and the
0:51.0	people out there are loving it. So we carry on. Today we have a very special
0:58.5	guess. Back in 1982 83-ish I heard this band merciful fate. It was one of the most
1:07.1	original sounding bands and scariest bands I had ever heard. I was listening to
1:13.8	Sabbath Iron Maiden, Saxon, ACDC, Judas Priest but when I heard merciful fate I
1:23.1	couldn't really believe what I was hearing. It was I was actually what like 17
1:30.0	18 years old but I was kind of spooked by it and intrigued. There's always that
1:37.0	thing of when you're a young male teenager you're looking for danger. I'm
1:44.3	living on the edge and listening to merciful fate definitely was a soundtrack to
1:51.6	danger and also originality. Here's this band that you know just out of
2:01.0	nowhere it seemed like started influencing all kinds of bands especially in the
2:08.1	Bay Area and Magic Knight came in 1984 when this band was on tour. They
2:17.3	played the Kabuki, Death Angel Open, King Diamond came out and the game was
2:24.0	changed. Everybody that saw that show and that tour was witnessing some of the
2:32.3	greatest metal ever. So to finally get to sit down with King Diamond and talk
2:39.1	about the history of merciful fate and the King Diamond records and how he
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