Several years in the making, King Diamond is finally set to enter the studio to begin working on a new album for an expected 2019 release via Metal Blade Records, which will be the first for the metal legend and his band in over ten years since Give Me Your Soul…Please in 2007. The band is also finishing up their forthcoming new live DVD – Blu-ray filmed during the bands 2015-2016 tour which saw them perform the classic Abigail album in full. The live concert film will include two full Abigail performances. King Diamond recently signed with 5B Artist Management (Megadeth, Slipknot).

In an interview recently with Eddie Trunk, King commented about the DVD and new album:

“As soon as the DVD is finished — it’ll be a matter of two or three weeks — [KING DIAMOND guitarist Andy La Rocque] is showing up here [in Frisco, Texas] to initiate my home studio where I’m gonna do all the vocals for a brand new KING DIAMOND studio album.”

Regarding the new album which is “80 percent done”

“There’s some very unique things I’m putting into it this time where you will relate to some of the sounds you hear on it, ’cause it’s sounds that you will hear on certain days in your private life. You’re outdoors, or whatever, and you might hear certain sounds and you will, guaranteed, think, if you heard the album, ‘I wonder if that thing King talked about could have happened when I heard that sound here.'”

On signing with 5B and expecting to tour more often in the future:

“We will be) playing more shows than we might have ever played in a year in our career. And that has a lot to do with new management and a great booking agent and record label — everybody around us is really doing a great job of trying to put a whole lot of things together that would never have been possible the way we were doing things up until now where we have done everything ourselves. I know 5B was very surprised that we had gotten to where we were without having management ever,” he added. “We had to learn the hard way all the time. But it’s nice to have the knowledge, and now it’s great to see some people that have the power to open doors that we cannot open ourselves.”