Abigail

King Diamond started this band under his own name after Mercyful Fate broke up. This second album is the first he carried as a single story from beginning to end. It was recorded between December 1986 and February 1987 at Sound Track Studio in Copenhagen, produced by King Diamond with Roberto Falcao engineering and playing keyboards, and Roadrunner Records released it in 1987. The line-up is King Diamond singing, Andy LaRocque and Michael Denner on guitars, Timi Hansen on bass and Mikkey Dee on drums. It is the last album Denner and Hansen played on. The story is set in 1845: a young couple inherit a mansion and are confronted by the spirit of Abigail, a child stillborn in 1777. The order of the songs is the order of the plot, and narration and singing move the scenes along. The form became this band's standard afterwards. The running order here is the original's as printed.