King Diamond has announced a Fall 2024 North American tour featuring guest vocals by Myrkur and support from Overkill and Night Demon.
The “Saint Lucifer’s Hospital Tour” launches October 15th in San Antonio, Texas, and runs through December 6th in Dallas. The extensive trek will hit major cities such as Brooklyn, Chicago, Vancouver (among numerous Canadian dates), Los Angeles, and Las Vegas, among others.
A Live Nation ticket pre-sale for select dates begins Thursday (August 1st) at 10 a.m. local time using the code STRUM. General ticket sales start Friday (August 2nd) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. Fans can also look for deals or get tickets to sold-out dates via StubHub, where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.
The tour will be King Diamond’s first North American outing since 2019’s “The Institute Tour.”
Based on remarks from the metal legend himself, the “Saint Lucifer’s Hospital Tour” will be a continuation of the “The Institute” stage production and concept, and Norwegian black metal songstress Myrkur will be onstage to provide guest vocals and organ accompaniment. The current live lineup is rounded out by guitarist Andy LaRocque, guitarist Mike Wead, bassist Pontus Egberg, and drummer Matt Thompson.
“This is Saint Lucifer’s Hospital, enter if you dare!” teased King Diamond in the tour press release. “We have been busy putting this ever-growing horror story together, and it’s still growing. I know the end of it, but how we will get there will be a long trip. There are so many characters, and so many unexpected things along this journey. It’s a crazy family on another timeline in 1920, where I experienced some hard times, and they have to come to our time to steal from us to survive. This is the most elaborate thing we have ever done, that goes for the stage production as well.”
He continued: “There will be additional backing vocals by Myrkur and she’ll be playing organ for songs that need it. There will be some horrific surprises taking place on stage, but we are not to be held responsible since we are on a whole different timeline in 1920. It was back at the time when medicine was going through a dark period with lots of testing on human beings in order to progress medicine. This is Saint Lucifer’s Hospital, also known as The Institute, enter if you dare!”
As for new music, King Diamond is “currently in the studio working on the band’s next album which will be released in 2025,” per the tour press release. The most recent single remains 2019’s “Masquerade of Madness,” which was teased as part of a larger as-yet-unreleased project titled “The Institute” at the time.
Below you can see a full list of King Diamond’s 2024 tour dates.
King Diamond’s 2024 Tour Dates:
10/15 – San Antonio, TX @ Boeing Center At Tech Port *
10/16 – Houston, TX @ Bayou Music Center *
10/18 – Cincinnati, OH @ Andrew J Brady Music Center *
10/19 – St. Louis, MO @ The Factory *
10/20 – Kansas City, MO @ The Midland Theater *
10/22 – Indianapolis, IN @ Murat Theatre At Old National Center *
10/23 – Louisville, KY @ The Louisville Palace Theatre *
10/25 – Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern *
10/26 – St. Petersburg, FL @ Duke Energy Center for the Arts – Mahaffey Theater *
10/28 – Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore *
10/30 – Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theater *
10/31 – Boston, MA @ Roadrunner #
11/02 – Montreal, QC @ MTelus *
11/03 – Mississauga, ON @ The Theatre At Great Canadian *
11/04 – Detroit, MI @ The Masonic Temple *
11/06 – Cleveland, OH @ The Agora Theatre & Ballroom *
11/07 – Chicago, IL @ The Chicago Theatre *
11/08 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Riverside Theater *
11/10 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore *
11/11 – Waukee, IA @ Vibrant Music Hall *
11/14 – Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom *
11/16 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex *
11/18 – Vancouver, BC @ Orpheum *
11/20 – Edmonton, AB @ Edmonton Convention Center *
11/21 – Saskatoon, SK @ TCU Place *
11/22 – Calgary, AB @ Grey Eagle Resort And Casino *
11/24 – Portland, OR @ Keller Auditorium *
11/25 – Seattle, WA @ Moore Theater *
11/27 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater *
11/29 – Los Angeles, CA @ YouTube Theater *
11/30 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Theater At Virgin Hotels *
12/01 – San Diego, CA @ Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre *
12/02 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren *
12/04 – Albuquerque, NM @ REVEL *
12/06 – Dallas, TX @ The Factory In Deep Ellum *
* = w/ Overkill and Night Demon
# = w/ Night Demon