Kungens solodebut

Efter att Mercyful fate splittrats valde King Diamond att satsa på solokarriären. Han ville satsa på sin idé om konceptalbum, vilket dock på debuten Fatal portrait innefattar halva skivan. Plattan släpptes 1986. En del av Mercyful fate följde med till Diamonds soloprojekt, basisten Timi Hansen och gitarristen Michael Denner. Nya samarbetspartners varMikkey Dee på trummor och Andy La Rouque på gitarr.

Lite lat idag så jag saxar storyn från Wikipedia:
4 songs on this album (The Candle, The Jonah, The Portrait and Haunted) form a short story. Narrator sees a face in "every candle that [he] burns". This face speaks one word to him: Jonah. So he finds an old book, speaks a rhyme and frees the spirit of candle. It's the spirit of a little girl named Molly, who tells him her story, that happened seven years before. Mrs Jane kept her 4-year-old daughter Molly in the attic until she (Molly) died. Before, Mrs Jane painted Molly's portrait and put it above the fireplace, so that Molly would become immortal, however, Molly made the portrait speak to her mother, so that Jane would know about Molly's pain. Mrs Jane then speaks a rhyme and burns the portrait. A free spirit of Molly returns to haunt her until she goes insane.