Fans hoping for concrete news on the long-awaited new KING DIAMOND album will have to keep waiting. In a new interview, the band's longtime guitarist ANDY LA ROCQUE addressed the status of the record — reportedly titled "Saint Lucifer's Hospital 1920" — and offered little in the way of a timeline.
"Nobody knows. [Laughs] Nobody knows. We'll see. But all I can say is that we're working on it," La Rocque said when pressed on when the album might finally surface.
The release is said to be the first installment of a horror trilogy, continuing the elaborate, concept-driven storytelling that has defined KING DIAMOND's catalogue since the 1980s. La Rocque confirmed that several tracks are already complete, reportedly including "Lobotomy," "Under The Surface," "The Institute," "The Nun," "Faceless" and "Spider Lilly," with "Deep In The Darkness 1920" also potentially in the mix.
La Rocque described an instinctive, unhurried approach to writing the new material. "I just write what comes out of the heart. I don't really care what other people think about the style or whatever," he said. He emphasized that the band is chasing an organic feel, both in the songwriting and the performances: "It's organic also in the way of the playing is not like copied and pasted... It's more relaxed play."
Despite the lack of a firm release date, KING DIAMOND have remained a potent live force. The group completed a U.S. tour in 2024 and followed it with a roughly 30-date European run in 2025 that took them through the U.K., Greece, Turkey and Finland to strong reviews.
A new KING DIAMOND studio album would be the band's first since 2007's Give Me Your Soul...Please, ending one of the longest gaps in the discography of the heavy metal institution led by Danish vocalist King Diamond. The theatrical, falsetto-wielding frontman — also of MERCYFUL FATE fame — survived major heart surgery in 2010 and has spoken for years about completing the concept record now apparently taking shape as "Saint Lucifer's Hospital 1920."
For now, La Rocque's message to fans is simple: the album is coming, the band is hard at work — but the wait isn't over just yet.