Photo by Maurice Nunez 

Heavy metal icon King Diamond has confirmed eagerly-awaited North American tour dates with the announcement of the Fall, Saint Lucifer's Hospital 1920 Tour. The run will kick of on October 15th in San Antonio, TX and span some 35 cities across North America before concluding back in Texas with a December 6th finale in Dallas. 

Set to ride out as support for King Diamond, Jersey thrash metal vets Overkill will serve as direct support with shred-heavy SoCal trio Night Demon opening each night of the run. In a move of added spectacle, King Diamond has enlisted Danish black metal enigma Myrkur to join the tour - providing backing vocals for King Diamond for each performance.

King Diamond prefaced the importance of the tour and revealed how this run will see the band level up in presentation. "This is Saint Lucifer's Hospital, enter if you dare! We have been busy putting this ever-growing horror story together, and it's still growing. I know the end of it, but how we will get there will be a long trip. There are so many characters, and so many unexpected things along this journey. It's a crazy family on another timeline in 1920, where I experienced some hard times, and they have to come to our time to steal from us to survive. This is the most elaborate thing we have ever done, that goes for the stage production as well."

King added some context for the narrative of the show and confirmed his new collaborative cohort. "There will be additional backing vocals by Myrkur and she'll be playing organ for songs that need it. There will be some horrific surprises taking place on stage, but we are not to be held responsible since we are on a whole different timeline in 1920. It was back at the time when medicine was going through a dark period with lots of testing on human beings in order to progress medicine. This is Saint Lucifer's Hospital, also known as The Institute, enter if you dare!"

Tickets for the Saint Lucifer's Hospital 1920 Tour are set to go on sale starting August 2nd at 10am local time. Artist pre-sale tickets will be available starting July 31st at 10am ET. Fans can access those early tickets - HERE

See the confirmed list of dates and cities below.