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Birth name
  
Mickael Vikstrom

Instruments
  
guitar, keyboard


Years active
  
1987–present

Name
  
Mike Wead

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Born
  
6 April 1967 (age 57) Boden, Sweden (
1967-04-06
)

Occupation(s)
  
musician, studio engineer

Associated acts
  
Hexenhaus, King Diamond, Mercyful Fate, bibleblack, The Project Hate MCMXCIX

Website
  
myspace.com/mikeweadofficial

Role
  
Guitarist · myspace.com/mikeweadofficial

Music groups
  
King Diamond, Mercyful Fate (Since 1996)

Genres
  
Heavy metal, Progressive metal, Thrash metal

Albums
  
The Puppet Master, Abigail II: The Revenge, Dead Again, Rhymes of Lunacy, 9

Similar People
  
Andy LaRocque, Hal Patino, Michael Denner, Snowy Shaw, Hank Shermann

Profiles

Myspace

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Mike Wead (real name Mickael Vikström) (born 6 April 1967), is a Swedish guitarist who lives in Stockholm. Wead contributed to heavy metal bands such as Hexenhaus, Memento Mori, Abstrakt Algebra, The Haunted, Edge of Sanity, Candlemass, The Project Hate. Currently Wead is the guitarist of Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, and bibleblack. As a guitarist in King Diamond, Wead shares lead guitar duties with Andy LaRocque. Wead also works as a producer and sound engineer.

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Equipment

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  • ESP E-II Horizon
  • ESP E-II ST-1
  • ESP Horizon 27
  • ESP Standard Horizon
  • Yamaha CPX-1200
  • Yamaha CPX-700
  • Line 6 Pod HD Pro X
  • Crown power amps
  • Seymour Duncan pickups
  • Dunlop picks & DR strings

    • With Mercyful Fate

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    1. Dead Again (1998)
    2. 9 (1999)

    With King Diamond

    1. Abigail II: The Revenge (2002)
    2. The Puppet Master (2003)
    3. Deadly Lullabyes Live (2004)
    4. Give Me Your Soul... Please (2007)

    With Hexenhaus

    1. A Tribute to Insanity (1988)
    2. At the Edge of Eternity (1990)
    3. Awakening (1991)
    4. Dejavoodoo (1997)

    With Candlemass

    1. Nightfall (1987)
    2. As It Is, As It Was (1994)
    3. Leif Edling The Black Heart of Candlemass (2002)

    With Memento Mori

    1. Rhymes of Lunacy (1993)
    2. Life, Death, and Other Morbid Tales (1994)
    3. La Danse Macabre (1996)
    4. Songs for the Apocalypse Vol IV (1997)

    With Abstrakt Algebra

  • Abstrakt Algebra (1995)

    • With Bibleblack

  • The Black Swan Epilogue (2009)

    • With Escape The Cult

  • All You Want To (2014)

    • Selected Guest Appearances

    With Memory Garden

  • Verdict of Prosterity (1998)

    • With Edge of Sanity

  • Crimson II (2003)

    • With Notre Dame

  • Demi Monde Bizarros (2004)

    • With In Aeternum

  • Dawn of the New Aeon (2005)

    • With Elvenking

  • The Scythe (2007)

    • With Her Whisper

  • The Great Unifier (2008)

    • With Sinners Paradise

  • The Awakening (2009)

    • With Kamlath

  • Stronger Than Frost (2010)

    • With The Project Hate MCMXCIX

  • The Lustrate Process (2009)
  • Bleeding The New Apocalypse (Cum Victriciis in Manibus Armis) (2011)

    • With Deadlands

  • Evilution (2012)

    • With Pharaoh

  • Bury the Light (2012)

    • With Snowy Shaw

  • Snowy Shaw is Alive! (2012)
  • Nachtgeist (2016)

    • With Minions

  • Soul Mirror (2013)

    • With Entombed

  • When in Sodom (2012)

    • With Zoromr

  • Corpus Hermeticum (2015)

    • References

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