July 17, 2014
King Diamond
(UPDATE 7/17/15) Heavy metal heavyweight King Diamond is currently touring North America in conjunction with the 2015 Mayhem Festival, which continues through the beginning of next month. The tour also features headlining performances from Slayer, Hell Yeah, and Devils Wears Prada. Each artist is contributing to the festival’s success on the secondary market, as King Diamond tickets to see the performer at this year’s Mayhem Festival is $90.87.
His most expensive stop comes on July 31 at PNC Bank Arts Center in New Jersey, where Mayhem Festival tickets average at $171.43 and the get-in price is $10. The cheapest King Diamond show will be held on July 18 at First Niagara Pavilion. That show owns a secondary ticket average of $55.85 and a $15 get-in price.
If planning on checking out King Diamond’s set along his remaining tour dates this summer, below is what you can expect to hear from the iconic metalhead, per setlist.fm:
King Diamond Average Setlist 2015 Mayhem Festival
- The Candle
- Sleepless Nights
- Eye of the Witch
- Welcome Home
- Tea / Digging Graves / A Visit from the Dead
- Evil - (Mercyful Fate cover)
- Come to the Sabbath - (Mercyful Fate cover)
- The Family Ghost
- The 7th Day of July 1777
- Black Horsemen
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King Diamond Announce North American Tour Dates
Often considered the fore-father of Black Metal, Danish songwriter King Diamond will bring his eclectic live performance to North American soil this Fall. After a handful of festival dates in August, the face-painted legend will kick off an 18 dates tour on October 11th in Atlanta.
In what's described as his most elaborate tour yet, highlights of the docket include the Best Buy Theatre in New York, The Vic Theatre in Chicago, a Halloween Eve/Halloween double shot in California at The Warfield and The Wiltern, and completing music's Texas Triangle of Houston, Dallas, and Austin.
Thus far, King Diamond tickets average $129.70 on the secondary market. Surprisingly both LA & New York average slightly under. The most expensive dates include Denver's Paramount Theatre and the aforementioned Warfield in San Francisco. Houston's House Of Blue is currently the cheapest date on the schedule, at an average price of $101.29. You can buy tickets for all available shows here and the full itinerary can be found at the bottom of this post.
King Diamond 2014 Tour Dates:
- 7/25 – Stockholm, SE @ Gron Lund
- 7/28 – Berlin, DE @ Huxleys Neue Welt
- 7/30 – Tilburg, NL @ 013 Poppodium
- 8/1 – Wacken, DE @ Wacken Open Air
- 8/8 – Oulu, FL @ Jalometalli
- 10/11 – Atlanta, GA @ Center Stage
- 10/13 – Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore
- 10/14 – New York, NY @ Best Buy Theatre
- 10/16 – Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
- 10/17 – Montreal, QC @ Olympia
- 10/18 – Toronto, ON @ The Sound Academy
- 10/19 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
- 10/21 – Chicago, IL @ The Vic Theatre
- 10/22 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
- 10/24 – Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre
- 10/26 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex
- 10/28 – Seattle, WA @ The Moose Theatre
- 10/30 – San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
- 10/31 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
- 11/1 – Las Vegas, NV @ House Of Blues
- 11/3 – Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre
- 11/5 – Houston, TX @ House Of Blues
- 11/6 – Dallas, TX @ House Of Blues
- 11/8 – Austin, TX @ Fun Fun Fun Fest
