‘Room 24’

Metal Blade Records has issued as follows:

Metal Blade Records would like to congratulate VOLBEAT and KING DIAMOND for being nominated for Best Metal Performance for the track “Room 24″ in the 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards.

The heavy metal icon King Diamond had this to say: “Thank you to everyone involved with voting. This is a great way to come back from the dead…literally.”

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Also nominated this year are Black Sabbath, Anthrax, Dream Theater, and Killswitch Engage. The GRAMMY’s will be taking place on Sunday, January 26 2014 in Los Angeles, Calif. at The Staples Center and will be broadcast live on CBS from 8–11:30pm (ET/PT). For updates and breaking news, please visit The Recording Academy’s social networks on Twitter and Facebook.

In other King Diamond news: the current issue of Decibel Magazine featuring King Diamond on the cover is now in stores and available for purchase through the magazine’s site here. The issue will be on newsstands from early December until the end of the year.

Keep up to date with all things King Diamond and Mercyful Fate at kingdiamondcoven.com.

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VOLBEAT‘s latest album, Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies, features a guest appearance from the legendary KING DIAMOND. Today, King Diamond and Volbeat are pleased to release the Jacob Hansen mastered version of this track, titled ‘Room 24’, as a free download gift to fans. Download the track in full-quality here.

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‘Room 24’ features a massive coup for Volbeat with the guest appearance from King Diamond, the legendary front man of Danish metal pioneers MERCYFUL FATE, and one of Poulsen’s musical idols.

Volbeat reveals, “I’m a huge fan of Mercyful Fate and King Diamond. Having King on the record is a huge privilege. Normally, it’s not something he does. He wrote his own lines, and it is half my lyrics and half his. It’s a weird, scary story, and he’s the perfect person for it.”

Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies is out on April 9th. The album contains the following 14 songs:

‘Let’s Shake Some Dust’
‘Pearl Hart’
‘The Nameless One’
‘Dead But Rising’
‘Cape Of Our Hero’
‘Room 24’ (feat. KING DIAMOND)
‘The Hangman’s Body Count’
‘My Body’
‘Lola Montez’
‘Black Bart’
‘Lonesome Rider’ (feat. SARAH BLACKWOOD)
‘The Sinner Is You’
‘Doc Holliday’
‘Our Loved Ones’

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The video for ‘Cape Of Our Hero’ can be seen below:

Remaining dates on Volbeat’s North American tour with openers DANKO JONES are as follows:

April
6 – Ft. Wayne, IN – Piere’s
7 – Toronto, ON – Sound Academy
9 – New York, NY – Best Buy Theatre
10 – Baltimore, MD – Rams Head
11 – Philadelphia, PA – Trocadero