Mike Wead (born Mickael Vikström on 6 April 1967) is a Swedish guitarist who lives in

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. Wead contributed to heavy metal bands such as ''Hexenhaus'',

Memento Mori (Latin for "remember (that you have) to die")

, Abstrakt Algebra, The Haunted,

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, Candlemass, The Project Hate. Currently Wead is the guitarist of Mercyful Fate,

King Diamond Kim Bendix Petersen (born 14 June 1956), better known by his stage name King Diamond, is a Danish rock musician. As a vocalist, he is known for his powerful and wide-ranging countertenor singing voice, in particular his far-reaching falsetto s ...

, and bibleblack.

Discography

With Mercyful Fate

#'' Dead Again'' (1998) #'' 9'' (1999)

With King Diamond

#'' Abigail II: The Revenge'' (2002) #'' The Puppet Master'' (2003) #'' Deadly Lullabyes Live'' (2004) #'' Give Me Your Soul... Please'' (2007) #'' Songs for the Dead Live'' (2019) #''The Institute'' (TBA)

With ''Hexenhaus''

#''A Tribute to Insanity'' (1988) #''At the Edge of Eternity'' (1990) #''Awakening'' (1991) #''Dejavoodoo'' (1997)

With Memento Mori

#'' Rhymes of Lunacy'' (1993) #'' Life, Death, and Other Morbid Tales'' (1994) #'' La Danse Macabre'' (1996) #'' Songs for the Apocalypse Vol IV'' (1997)

With Abstrakt Algebra

*''Abstrakt Algebra'' (1995)

With Bibleblack

*''The Black Swan Epilogue'' (2009)

With ''Escape The Cult''

*''All You Want To'' (2014)

Selected Guest Appearances

With Candlemass *'' Nightfall'' (1987) *'' As It Is, As It Was'' (1994) *''

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''The Black Heart of Candlemass'' '' (2002) With

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*''Verdict of Prosterity'' (1998) With

*'' Crimson II'' (2003) With Notre Dame *''Demi Monde Bizarros'' (2004) With ''In Aeternum'' *''Dawn of the New Aeon'' (2005) With Elvenking *'' The Scythe'' (2007) With ''Her Whisper'' *''The Great Unifier'' (2008) With ''Sinners Paradise'' *''The Awakening'' (2009) With ''Kamlath'' *''Stronger Than Frost'' (2010) With The Project Hate MCMXCIX *'' The Lustrate Process'' (2009) *''Bleeding The New Apocalypse (Cum Victriciis in Manibus Armis)'' (2011) With ''Deadlands'' *''Evilution'' (2012) With ''Pharaoh'' *''Bury the Light'' (2012) With

Snowy Shaw Snowy Shaw (born Tommie Mike Christer Helgesson; 25 July 1968) is a Swedish musician based in the port city of Gothenburg in the west coast of Sweden. He has played with many heavy metal bands, like King Diamond, Dream Evil, Mercyful Fate, Il ...

*'' Snowy Shaw is Alive!'' (2012) *''Nachtgeist'' (2016) With ''Minions'' * ''Soul Mirror'' (2013) With Entombed * ''When in Sodom'' (2012) With ''Zoromr'' * ''Corpus Hermeticum'' (2015) With Devilish Impressions * ''The I'' (2017) With ''Pigface Beauty'' * ''Love & Hate'' (2017)

References

Living people Swedish lead guitarists King Diamond (band) members Mercyful Fate members Swedish heavy metal guitarists 1967 births Abstrakt Algebra members Memento Mori (band) members People from Boden, Sweden {{Sweden-guitarist-stub