Released February 17, 1986 Length 41:41 Artist King Diamond Label Roadrunner Records | Recorded July-August 1985 Fatal Portrait
(1986) Abigail
(1987) Release date 17 February 1986 Genres Heavy metal, Black metal | |
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Studio Sound Track Studio, Copenhagen, Denmark Producers King Diamond, Michael Denner Similar King Diamond albums, Heavy metal albums | ||
King diamond fatal portrait 1986 full album
Fatal Portrait is the debut album by the heavy metal band King Diamond. The album was released in 1986 on Roadrunner Records. It is the only King Diamond album to date in which guitarist Andy LaRocque does not receive writing credits. Fatal Portrait was produced by Rune Hoyer. Along with The Spider's Lullabye, this is one of the band's only albums which is not a whole concept album. This album has sold over 100,000 copies in North America alone.
Contents
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Plot
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.
Track listing
All lyrics written by King Diamond.
Personnel
Songs
1The Candle6:40
2The Jonah5:16
3The Portrait5:08