King Diamond

King Diamond, born Kim Bendix Petersen in 1956, is the Danish metal showman you cannot un-see once you've seen him, corpse paint, that piercing countertenor, and those far-reaching falsetto screams. With Mercyful Fate and his own band he turned horror storytelling into a fully committed musical world and never broke character across decades. The detail I love is that the theatrics rest on real training; he studied music, so the spookiness has a genuine foundation. Building a world this elaborate and staying faithful to it for a lifetime is almost a religion. I always wonder, half-anxiously, if that voice still soars.

Name (English)

King Diamond

Name (Japanese)

キング・ダイアモンド

Reading

きんぐ・だいあもんど

Born

June 14, 1956 (age 70)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Monkey

Origin

Copenhagen, Denmark

Occupation

singer / songwriter / rock musician / composer / musician

University

Royal College of Music in Stockholm

Awards & achievements

• Statens Kunstfonds hædersydelse

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.covenworldwide.org/
• Xhttps://x.com/King_Diamond
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89

Tags

• singer
• songwriter
• rock musician

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.