#50/1217
February 17 1986
King Diamond
Fatal Portrait
Genre: Metal
4 out of 5
Highlights:
The Portrait
Dressed in White
Halloween
I almost forgot about high pitched Halford-ing shriek vocals. I kind of missed them.
Side One + one song is a concept half-album:
From Wikipedia: “Five songs on this album (first four and "Haunted") form a short story. Narrator sees a face in "every candle that [he] burns". This face speaks one word to him: "Jonah". So he finds an old book, speaks a rhyme and frees the spirit from the candle. It's the spirit of a little girl named Molly, who tells him her story, that happened seven years before. Mrs. Jane kept her 4-year-old daughter Molly in the attic until she (Molly) died. Before, Mrs. Jane painted Molly's portrait and put it above the fireplace, so that Molly would become immortal; however, Molly made the portrait speak to her mother, so that Jane would know about Molly's pain. Mrs. Jane then speaks a rhyme and burns the portrait. A free spirit of Molly returns to haunt her until she goes insane.”
I didn’t really follow it. But it’s pretty noodle-y and metallic. “Dressed in White” is mayhem and I loved it.
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