![]() It’s good, controlled chaos, and the next few songs follow suite. It consists of multiple tempo changes and some awkward time signatures along with guitar harmonies and solos - basically all the good stuff you have come to expect from this band, except amped a notch up. If anything, that emphasis on progression is even stronger here, as evident on the album opener At the Graves, which clocks an impressive length of nine minutes and is one of the longest King Diamond songs. It has also arguably displayed some strong progressive metal traits, and that’s despite the songs being hardly longer than five minutes. However, he does play as a session drummer here and helps the band maintain its classic sound, which honestly has always been a mix of certain styles - classic heavy metal at core with a strong dash of speed metal and some hints of power metal. ![]() It marks Mikkey Dee’s departure from the band as well - Denner and Hansen having bid adieu the year prior. King Diamond the band was on such a roll in the eighties, for they kept churning out album after album year after year, Conspiracy being their fourth full-length effort - a sequel to "Them" which starts right where it left off: King, the main character in the story, going back to his haunted house after being away for long enough to have allowed a series of bizzare events that he needs to seek answers for.
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