King Diamond | Abigail [Remastered] (4K | 1987/1997 | Full Album & Lyrics)

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Abigail
King Diamond
October 21st, 1987/
November 11th, 1997
RR 9622/1686-187882
Roadrunner Records

King Diamond | Vocals
Timi Hansen | Bass
Andy La Rocque | Guitars
Michael Denner | Guitars
Mikkey Dee | Drums

1. Funeral 0:00
2. Arrival 1:36
3. A Mansion In Darkness 7:03
4. The Family Ghost 11:35
5. The 7th Day Of July 1777 15:41
6. Omens 20:30
7. The Possession 24:26
8. Abigail 27:51
9. Black Horsemen 32:40
10. Shrine 40:16
11. A Mansion In Darkness (Rough Mix) 44:35
12. The Family Ghost (Rough Mix) 49:09
13. The Possession (Rough Mix) 53:16

Abigail is the second King Diamond album and their first concept album. It was released in 1987 on Roadrunner Records.
There were several re-releases, first in 1997 with 4 bonus tracks.

Abigail tells the story about a young couple, Miriam Natias and Jonathan La'Fey, who move into an old mansion that La'Fey inherited.
It takes place in the summer of 1845. At their arrival they are warned by seven horsemen not to move into the house because if they do
“18 will become 9.” They do not heed the warning and proceed to move into the mansion. During their first night, Jonathan meets with
Count La'Fey, the Family Ghost, who is a deceased relative. The ghost shows him a casket in which a corpse of a stillborn child, Abigail, rests.
The ghost informs him that Miriam is carrying the spirit of Abigail and that the child will soon be reborn. He insists that Jonathan must kill Miriam at once to prevent the rebirth.

The narration then relates the story of what happened to the Count and his wife: on 7 July 1777, the Count had discovered his wife had been unfaithful to him, and was pregnant with an illegitimate child.
Enraged, he threw the Countess down the stairs, breaking her neck and causing the child to be stillborn.
The Count had the body of the Countess cremated, and the stillborn fetus he named Abigail and had mummified and laid to rest in a
sarcophagus, the Count having an inexplicable urge to preserve Abigail for the future.

The narration then returns to the summer of 1845, during which Jonathan and Miriam are beset by a range of omens; the church bell
rings despite nobody being inside to ring it, flowers die, unwholesome stenches fill the house and in the dining room the table is discovered
set for 3. In one incident an empty cradle is discovered by Jonathan swaying in the air, with both him and Miriam insisting that they didn’t
bring it with them. The next day, Miriam is clearly pregnant and the fetus develops quickly; Jonathan realises that the family ghost was
speaking the truth.

The fatal crisis begins when Jonathan accuses Abigail of possessing Miriam, and Abigail (through Miriam) admits it. Jonathan is terrified
and considers getting a priest to exorcise Miriam - Miriam, however, exercising a moment of control, urges him to cast her down the stairs
to kill her just as the Count had slain the Countess and Abigail’s original incarnation. Therefore, Jonathan pretends to give in to Abigail’s
demands, and suggests to Abigail (once she regains control of Miriam) that she should come down to the family crypt so she can be reborn
where she died. However, as the couple stands at the top of the stairs, Jonathan is distracted and the possessed Miriam throws Jonathan
down the stairs.

Miriam gives birth to Abigail, but dies shortly afterwards, her last sight being of Abigail’s “yellow eyes”; supposedly her ghost can be heard
screaming on the stairs in July ever after. The seven horsemen arrive at the mansion and discover the baby Abigail in the sarcophagus,
eating something too horrifying for the narrator to mention (though the fact that it is found in the sarcophagus suggests that Abigail is
eating her own previous body). Appalled, they take her away to bury her in a hidden chapel in the forest with seven silver spikes driven
through her body (a burial heard as the intro to the album), in the hope that this will prevent a further resurrection.
The album's photography, credited to Jorgen Bak and Ole Lundgren, further complements the overall visual aesthetic of "Abigail".

Released as part of Roadrunner Records' the King Diamond Remasters series.
Recorded and mixed at Sound Track Studio, Copenhagen, December - February 1986-1987.
Remastered at The Hit Factory, New York.

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