KING DIAMOND cancels more live dates and issues update – “We could be back performing this Thursday”

King Diamond was forced to cancel his July 5th show at Rockmaraton Festival in Dunaújváros, Hungary, and his July 6th appearance at Arena Open Air in Vienna, Austria due to falling ill with strep throat.

As per a new update, the tour is now expected to resume this Thursday, July 10th at Rockwave Festival in Athens, Greece. Therefore, shows on Tuesday, July 8th (Arenele Romane Open Air – Bucharest, Romania) and Wednesday, July 9th (Arena Sofia – Sofia, Bulgaria) will not be going ahead.

King issued the following update this morning, Monday, July 7th:

“Hello everyone

King Diamond here. As you may know by now, I was diagnosed with strep throat this past Saturday, and told to rest a certain amount of days. As I have had experience with strep throat before, I believe that with the medicine prescribed by the doctor and my own knowledge, I can be back singing before the estimated day. By cutting my recuperation from suggested 14 days to 6, which I feel might work in this case, we could be back performing this Thursday, July 10th in Athens, Greece.

Send me a Devil’s prayer or two and I shall do my utmost for this to happen.

Stay Heavy” – King Diamond