BUT IN THE
FATAL PORTRAIT
MY SPIRIT
CAME TO LIFE AGAIN
Fatal Portrait
is the
debut album
by Danish
Heavy Metal band
It was produced by
Rune Hoyer
and released on
March,14th 1986
through
Roadrunner Records.
Guitarist
Andy LaRocque
joined the album
recording sessions
at the last minute,
as the band's
second guitarist
at the time
"wasn't working out"
in the studio.
As a result,
it is the only
King Diamond album
which does not
feature any
writing credits
from LaRocque.
Recording a solo for
"Dressed in White"
functioned as
his audition
for joining the band.
Along with
The Spider's Lullabye,
it is one of the band's
only albums
which is not a
whole concept album.
Fatal Portrait
has sold over
100,000 copies
in North America alone.
The title of the
album comes from
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde.
Wilde describes
the painting as
"the fatal portrait"
several times
throughout the novel.
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Plot
Five songs on this album
(first four and "Haunted")
form a short story.
Narrator sees a face in
"every candle that [he] burns".
This face speaks
one word to him:
"Jonah".
So he finds an old book,
speaks a rhyme
and frees the spirit
from the candle.
It's the spirit of a
little girl named Molly,
who tells him her story,
that happened
seven years before.
Mrs. Jane kept her
4-year-old
daughter Molly
in the attic until
she (Molly) died.
Before, Mrs. Jane
painted Molly's portrait
and put it above
the fireplace,
so that Molly would
become immortal;
however,
Molly made the portrait
speak to her mother,
so that Jane would know
about Molly's pain.
Mrs. Jane then speaks
a rhyme and burns
the portrait.
A free spirit of
Molly returns to
haunt her until
she goes insane.
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