King Diamond is currently writing new music for his next album

According to a posting at www.covenworldwide.com, King Diamond is currently working on the music for the next album, The Puppet Master, at his home studio in Dallas and guitarist Andy LaRocque's Los Angered studio in Sweden.

"From now until the end of October, we will be writing all the new music," he reveals. “During November and December, I will be writing the lyrics (the story is already done). Then I will, for the first time, do demo vocals at my house, especially for Hal Patino's sake, so that he has the vocal melodies to work his bass lines in and out of. Hal's style is to follow nothing and everything at the same time. He's all over the place without ever being in the wrong place. He is definitely my personal favorite bass player."

"Mid-February, we ship half of Andy's studio to Dallas, to be set up in my house, including his mobile ProTools system, and a bunch of outboard gear etc. etc. It's all going to be the same kind of top-quality gear that we are used to work with. So my house is where the actual recording process will start. We will record all rhythm guitars, bass guitars, most keyboards and possibly most of the harmony guitars there, too. These things will be mixed into a rough mix, which Andy and I will bring to a studio here in Dallas where Matt will be recording all of his drum tracks. Then Andy and I will do another rough mix of everything that's been recorded so far. Several copies will be made of this. Andy will bring a copy with him back to Sweden, and I will bring a copy of the rough mixes to a studio here in Dallas to record the vocals.
When Andy and Mike are done with their solos in Sweden, and I am done with the vocals, then Andy comes back to Dallas, where he and I will be mixing the album and mastering it too. We hope to be able to send the finished master tapes to the record labels before the summer, so we can have it released just before Halloween next year.”

Source: BW&BK