Released in 1986, Fatal Portrait is the debut King Diamond album, unusually not a conceptual affair, although five of the songs link to form a short ghost story, a theme that would be returned to again and again over subsequent releases.
In 2005 American Hi-Fi released Hearts On Parade, which was the only album to feature Jason Sutter on drums. In typical pop-punk style, nearly every song is about girls: lust, crushes and everything in between falling in and out of love.