Burger King Diamond
Kim Bendix Petersen, better known by his stage name King Diamond, is a
Grammy Award nominated Danish heavy metal musician. As a vocalist, he is
known for his extensive vocal range, in particular his usage of
falsetto.
Mercyful Fate - Melissa Video With Lyrics
Melissa is the debut
studio album by the Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate, released in 1983. It
was the first album released by Roadrunner Records. In 2005 Roadrunner Records
re-released this album with several bonus tracks and a bonus DVD. Music is
credited to Hank Shermann and lyrics to King Diamond.
Melissa, the skull
"Melissa"
was the name of a skull the band was using at the time in their shows, and it
is possible that the skull on the cover of the album is a reference to this.
Originally, someone gave this human skull to King. Something had happened to this
person as it had a heavy blow on the forehead and the top had been cut off and
was attached with a small hook. On the inside of the skull, there had been a
big piece that had gotten loose but had grown back onto it on the inside, and
there was a tiny little hole that you could see through from the outside to the
inside. So, that person would have been hit by an axe or something, right in
the forehead and obviously did not die from it. So King started wondering what
had happened to this person, what fate could this person have had. For some
reason, King had to make up his own little story to put his own mind at peace
and that's where the song Melissa came from, it was inspired by that skull.
King thinks this could have been a witch, just like it could have been anything
in fact, but that was just something to put himself at ease. -Wikipedia
