Puppet Master
An underground icon and purveyor of all things dark and mysterious, KING DIAMOND and his cohorts continue to terrorize humanity with their latest and most extreme album to date, The Puppet Master. This gruesome tale set to take place in 18th century Budapest, Hungary involving a puppet show and many fascinating characters. One cold night in December the main character known as Unfortunate Man goes down to see a Christmas puppet show and after the show he is standing outside and sees a young woman. He is strangely drawn to this young woman, Victoria, almost as if one of the puppet's ghosts is sitting on his shoulder whispering in his ear to go and kiss the girl. The two get along immediately due to their fascination with the puppet show and end up going out. About a year later everything is going very good until one night Victoria heads down to the puppet show by herself and never returns.  The Unfortunate Man goes down to the puppet show to investigate and sees the Puppet Master's wife leaving with a wheel barrel and follows her only to see her murder a homeless man and put his body in the cart. From here the story twists and turns as it takes you through the horrific tale of the Unfortunate Man, Victoria, The Puppet Master, his wife, the puppets and the events leading to the climactic end of the story.As King describes it this album is going to make the hairs stand up on the back of listeners neck. "The rules of censorship are being thrown out the window...this is going to be the rawest story/album we have ever done." King was also quick to point out that "if you are into horror; you're definitely going to get it with this album!"  The Puppet Master is sure to be considered one of King's goriest and most extreme stories yet!The Puppet Master will also contain a bonus DVD of King Diamond telling the story of The Puppet Master. This is the first time King Diamond has done anything like this and is sure to be a huge success with all his devoted fans.  The band also approached their band pictures a little different this time around making all the members look like tormented puppets. It will definitely be different and twisted! As King says, "This is some of the best material to date. You're really gonna love this stuff!!!" Be sure to catch King Diamond live on tour supporting The Puppet Master in October/November 2003. It will not be a show to miss!