Kim Bendix Petersen, AKA KING DIAMOND is a legend of the metal world, with a huge vocal range and distinctive stage persona that helped give birth to Black Metal as we know it through his band Mercyful Fate.
After he left Mercyful Fate broke up in 1985, King set out with several bandmates to create his own brand of metal in the solo project bearing his name. THEM is the second album in that project, and the first of two concept albums dealing with a fictionalized horror-movie version of King's childhood.