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Drummer Mikkey Dee celebrates his new band Lex Legion, reflects on his career and discusses why he turned down Motorhead at first.

Long-running German thrash outfit EXUMER will release a new full-length album, "Death Mask Messiah", on August 28 through Metal Blade Records. "Death Mask Messiah", which marks the band's first new studio output in seven years, further cements EXUMER's legacy as a dauntless thrash metal institution....

"Mental Funeral" was AUTOPSY's second studio album, originally released back in 1991, and is rightly hailed as one of the greatest death metal albums of all time with its unhinged and uncompromising collection of odes to brutality and depravity, wrapped up in its highly distinctive raw, organic prod...

From budding hockey star to Lemmy’s powerhouse backbeat, via making some of metal's best albums with King Diamond, Mikkey Dee has had a hell of a life. As…

He eventually gave in and wound up recording 12 albums with them!

By David E. Gehlke LEX LEGION is yet another KING DIAMOND / MERCYFUL FATE offshoot — and it may be the best one yet. Featuring long-time KING DIAMOND co-conspirator and lead guitarist Andy LaRocque, along with classic-era members Pete Blakk (guitar),Hal Patino (bass) and Mikkey Dee (drums),LEX LEG...

Bosnian symphonic/progressive metal band DOLIA, led by powerful vocalist and young artist Sara Vojicic, returns with a new single and music video, "Duet" — the second chapter of a trilogy inspired by the ancient Slavic legend of the goddess Morana. Following the band's debut single "The Gift", "Duet...

In a new interview with Sakis Fragos of Rock Hard Greece, KING DIAMOND guitarist Andy La Rocque spoke about the status of the band's forthcoming horror trilogy, part one of which is titled "Saint Lucifer's Hospital 1920". Asked what is happening with "Saint Lucifer's Hospital 1920" now, Andy said (a...

In a new interview with author Sam Retzer for Tape Op, legendary producer Scott Burns of Tampa, Florida's famed Morrisound Recording was asked whether he was "elevating the art form of death metal" during the making of ATHEIST's "Unquestionable Presence" and DEATH's "Human", the latter of which feat...

Lex Legion features the recording lineup from King Diamond's 'Them' album with singer Nils K. Rue.

All good things come to those who wait, but there is rarely any harm in making alternative plans. An international supergroup with monstrous pedigree, LEX LEGION may not have formed solely to plug the gap where a new KING DIAMOND album should have been, but it is hard to ignore the fact that their d...

SHINEDOWN are ready for the next era, and for a band that's been rocking it for as long as they have, they sound as fresh and exciting as ever. The band's latest album, "EI8HT", features the kind of hard rocking music you've come to expect from the band but with their pop sensibility that makes thes...

LEX LEGION, the new band featuring four-fifths of KING DIAMOND's classic late '80s lineup, will play its first-ever concert on November 28 at Filmstudion in Gothenburg, Sweden. Earlier this month, LEX LEGION released the official music video for its second single, "Gypsy Tears". The clip was directe...

Björn Strid (SOILWORK, THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA),Dino "Jelusick" Jelusić (ex-WHITESNAKE),Mats Levén (CANDLEMASS, TREAT, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN),Pontus Egberg (KING DIAMOND),Joakim Svalberg (OPETH),Linnea Wikström Egg (THUNDERMOTHER, THERION) and Kee Marcello (ex-EUROPE, EASY ACTION) are among the m...

Ville Valo reflects on 30 years of HIM and horny, doomed gothic romance

"Albümün ne zaman çıkacağı sorusu King'e sorulması gereken bir soru."