Give Me Your Soul...Please

Infobox Album | Name = Give Me Your Soul...Please
Type = studio
Artist = King Diamond


Released = June 26, 2007
Recorded =
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Genre = Heavy metal
Black metal
Label = Massacre Records
Last album = ""
(2004)
This album = "Give Me Your Soul...Please"
(2007)

"Give Me Your Soul...Please" is a concept album by King Diamond released on June 26, 2007. The album's concept and cover art are both based on a painting titled "My Mother's Eyes."

In the July/August issue of UK metal magazine "Zero Tolerance", Diamond elaborated on the themes of the album, being a story of two dead children, murdered by their father, relating their tale to him. He stated that cases of parents killing their children and then themselves were a large influence, citing such an incident which occurred in Dallas four days before the interview took place. Ironically, "Give Me Your Soul" was also released the day after the highly publicized Chris Benoit double murder and suicide.

The second track, "Never Ending Hill", is available for free download on the Metal Blade Records website. The track was also nominated for a 2008 Grammy award for Best Metal Performance but lost to Slayer's "Final Six."

Plot Summary

The album opens with a sister and brother waiting in the afterlife, haven been recently murdered by their father. The ambigious "Thirteen Judges" have deemed that the boy deserves to go to Hell because they mistakenly believe he committed suicide. The sister, called the Girl in the Bloody Dress, goes to search for a soul free of sin to save her brother from damnation. She arrives at Neverending Hill, where King Diamond lives with his black cat, Magic. She tries to contact him to help her, but only ends up haunting him instead, causing the lights to flicker, objects to move on their own, making the temperature drop to ice-like levels, and increasing the darkness. Using black magic, and fighting the darkness of the house, he finally contacts the girl who tells him her story; that her father chopped up her brother with an axe, splashing her with his blood, then choked her to death before shooting himself in the head. She looks into King's soul, but finds it's no good to her, because his soul is full of sin. In the final track, a rare ballad for King Diamond, he pleads with her to find a new house to search for a soul free of sin before the sun rises. The album ends with the Girl in the Bloody Dress saying that she's moving on to THIS house, implying that she's coming to the house of the listener of the album.

Track listing

All lyrics by King Diamond. Music credits as indicated.
# "The Dead" (Diamond) – 1:56
# "Never Ending Hill" (LaRocque) – 4:36
# "Is Anybody Here?" (Diamond) – 4:12
# "Black of Night" (LaRocque) – 4:00
# "Mirror Mirror" (Diamond) – 4:59
# "The Cellar" (LaRocque) – 4:30
# "Pictures in Red" (LaRocque) – 1:27
# "Give Me Your Soul"(LaRocque) – 5:28
# "The Floating Head" (LaRocque) – 4:46
# "Cold as Ice"(Diamond) – 4:29
# "Shapes of Black"(Diamond) – 4:22
# "The Girl in the Bloody Dress" (Diamond) – 5:07
# "Moving On" (Diamond) – 4:06

Personnel

* King Diamond - Vocals, Keyboards
* Andy LaRocque - Guitars, Keyboards
* Mike Wead - Guitars
* Hal Patino - Bass
* Matt Thompson - Drums
* Livia Zita - Additional vocals