Something has to go really wrong, a broken string or something, for anything to be different. I have hade the same line up for a long time now and it is the best one I’ve played with ever in my life. But other things play a role – it has to do with the overall, not that I have never lacked confidence in being on stage, it is the whole surrounding, you have more professional crew through the years, and I know on stage, I know that they have got everything right when they put everything up, including monitor sound. Through the years I have felt that it has grown slightly stronger and stronger and stronger. You mentioned your voice is much better – before this better voice of yours, were you ever afraid to lose your ability to hit those high notes? It will be there forever, it has grown in to the bone. And the fact that I’m eating healthier and no cigarettes, I can feel it you know.ĭid I understand correctly, do you still have this metal thread? I go to an athletic center, things I did not do before. And I stick to a new diet and exercise every day. But this might be a good thing, in the end, if everything goes well you might feel much younger than you really are. It’s a big process for us of course because we have not done anything for five years, because I had a disc-problem earlier you know. – So I’m looking forward to get everything up. But I did not need that, afterwards I was not out of breath, I have never felt that good about singing… I think that was the best I’ve ever sung, that I did here two months ago. Often, the people that are there, the fans will sing every line in the first two verses. And then we did Evil in the end, simply as a safety if I got out of breath or something. And Burn from the Eye, which… it is very difficult to catch a breath here and there. But we did three songs and I picked those songs particularly for a test: The Family Ghost, old King Diamond from Abigail with lots of difficult high voices – it has never been that easy to sing it before. ![]() No one knew about it, I was just there as a presenter. There was a showcase here in Dallas where bands were battling for prizes, and there I got the chance to sing three songs. And you have to work hard to get your capacity back to normal. Also the breathing, because when they do the operation they collapse your lungs. – I had actually one more test, because San Francisco was like a test. I’m really looking forward to do the other stuff. But this new one is much better than the old one ever was. It’s easier, it’s like a brand new voice. And it is a big difference, I can tell you. This is the first time I feel what my voice is like without smoking. You can imagine – I have never been a singer and not been a smoker. It has become so much crispier, it is much easier to sing all of those difficult high things. And I can feel that on my voice, it really changes a lot. I have stopped smoking, and changed all of my habits. – But that was just singing, then comes the second part. And I had been at the surgeons just three weeks before just to know everything was really good, he had done an x-ray and told me it was growing together really well. It was like it had grown together really well. And then the sound came up and I did not feel anything. So when I came up to the Metallica show, I did not know if I would feel the same bad things as I felt in Dallas, and when they turned up the sound I thought ”Oh my god, either I should just head home or it will work again”. – It has to grow back together that is why I have it there. ![]() They sawed my chest, they pretty much open your chest up like a double door. And my old chest was rattling, I had to get the hell out of there, it was very, very uncomfortable! And right now I have a pretty thick metal string all the way down my chest, inside under the skin, that ties together the whole chest, all the bones. I went there to say hi in the afternoon, and during their sound check I went up on stage to see what it felt like. I went there to meet a band which members I know, some of them. ![]() I had not sung since the heart surgery, well, I had had a test at a local place called House of Blues here nearby. – Yes, it was great to get back on stage, and it was a big test so to speak. You played live with Metallica in December 2011, and you looked really happy! We spoke for 80 minutes, so it was a looooong interview with great answers about his surgical operation, recovery, haunted boots, cigarette butts, the radio friendly Abigail songs and the famous nun picture. This interview took place in March 1st 2012, about 15 months after King Diamond had his open heart triple bypass surgery.
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