KING DIAMOND Talks About Story Behind 'Give Me Your Soul ... Please'

June 13, 2007

King Diamond recently spoke to AnarchyMusic.net about the story behind his latest album "Give Me Your Soul ... Please". An excerpt follows:

King Diamond: "Our distributor in Denmark called our tour manager who does all kinds of stuff with us and said, 'I just saw a painting on some artist's web site that I think you should check out.' We checked it out and it was right up our alley. We bought the artwork from the guy. That was a long time ago.

"The story is not based on the front cover, but naturally you want the cover to be a part of the story. We changed the cover to fit the story. Originally it was called 'My Mother's Eyes,' and the little girl was standing there with eyeballs in her hand, but they aren't there anymore to fit the story. We added a frame around the actual piece of artwork so now it looks like it's a mirror hanging on a wall that you see this girl in a bloody dress in. You see a shadow also on the side of the mirror on the wall as if you yourself was standing there looking at that mirror. That thing around the mirror was taken from the mirror I had hanging in my hallway. It has a lot to do with me. Now you know that the frame around that mirror that you see there is the frame I have around the mirror in my hallway.

"Overall, as is the case with many other KING DIAMOND stories than this one, there is so much more of me in these stories than I would ever like to admit. That's always been the case. After a story has been written, I sit down and look at it and I say, 'Oh my god, how could I show so much of myself in this?' Surely some of these things are purely imagination but there are certainly things that I've experienced myself and other things that I've experienced but I've changed them to fit the story. It's a full-concept horror story. Something about the story that is very different than anything I've done before is that I wanted to try to write this story in the present time, instead of it happening in the past and being told. It's almost like a horror story with music but kind of like '24'. It happens as you listen to it on this album. Not inspired by '24', even though I love that show, but it's that kind of thing. It takes place as you listen to it, which there's definitely a chance that it won't work but i think it worked perfectly."

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