Song · King Diamond
“Halloween” by King Diamond
From the album Fatal Portrait (1986)
“Halloween” by King Diamond appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1990. It was first released in 1986 on the album Fatal Portrait. Its best result is #666 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,800 hard rock song of all time.
"Halloween" creeps out of Fatal Portrait, the 1986 debut from Danish heavy metal band King Diamond, with King Diamond himself writing the words and co-writing the music with Michael Denner. Rune Hoyer produced the album, and Roadrunner put it out that March.
The sessions came down to the wire. The band's other guitarist of the day wasn't cutting it in the studio, so Andy LaRocque was pulled in at the last minute and auditioned with a solo on "Dressed in White"; as a result this is the only King Diamond album with no LaRocque songwriting credits. It's also one of the few King Diamond records that isn't one long concept piece, and its title is borrowed from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, where the painting gets called "the fatal portrait".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 666 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
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