Give Me Your Soul Please

King Diamond

To begin with, this album is originally inspired by a very wicked painting under the […]
By Elina Papadoyianni
June 24, 2007
King Diamond - Give Me Your Soul Please album cover

To begin with, this album is originally inspired by a very wicked painting under the title My Mother's Eyes and no, its not a close up to a pair of sweet mommy eyes, but as theme there's a girl holding her mother's eyes with her hands...So, if this is the basis and King Diamond is the developer of the painting's atmosphere, it is only natural that another release of darkness is delivered by the man who has tamed fear and translated it into music.
With almost three decades of horror mayhem, the 'actor' King Diamond presents once again his rotting ideas through the new album Give Me Your Soul...Please under the concept of a girl who was murdered and is doomed to search eternally for souls to reap. Since the story once again involves a house, it's easy to make a parallelism and observe one of 'Them' slowly showing its face and being identified as a vicious little girl.  
The first track, The Dead, begins with the sound of a clock ticking and it's the only hint that time will give you, since after that you are bound to lose track of it. Songs that are catchy and groovy, but heavy and sick as hell...This time female vocals hold significantly fewer space and King Diamond never ceases to present top notch theatrical vocal abilities. Andy LaRocque with never ending inspiration and his amazing riffs is the catalyst in entering the concept-stories and grasping the mood. Evil atmosphere accompanied with macabre lyrics, it's never easy when it comes to KING DIAMOND releases to choose among the songs and rate them as best of the album, since each and every one plays a unique role, but I could say a few that stand out from the first spin, like The Cellar, Black Of  Night, the homonymous Give Me Your Soul Please, The Girl In The Bloody Dress, and the cleverly entitled Cold As Ice.
The signature sound is there, it has never been absent for twelve releases so far, it has inspired a great number of bands in Heavy Metal and especially in Black Metal, with its inventor King Diamond remaining one of the few that really know how to preserve such acoustic gems and make them imperishable through time.

8 / 10

Excellent

"Give Me Your Soul Please" Track-listing:

The Dead   
Never Ending Hill  
Is Anybody Here?   
Black Of Night   
Mirror Mirror   
The Cellar   
Pictures In Red   
Give Me Your Soul   
The Floating Head   
Cold As Ice   
Shapes of Black   
The Girl In The Bloody Dress   
Moving On

King Diamond Lineup:

King Diamond - Vocals
Andy LaRocque - Guitars
Mike Wead - Guitars
Hal Patino - Bass
Matt Thompson - Drums

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