Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Heavy metal has its fair share of characters but King Diamond stands out even amongst the most colorful and remarkable musicians. As the iconic frontman of Mercyful Fate and the namesake for the band ...

The cryptic message arrived via email one day: “I have the polish you are looking for.” it read. “It removes bluing and golding.” Golding? “Contact me with an address and I will send out a free sample ...

Talk about a sad way to start the week. Over the weekend, news got out that metal legend King Diamond recently underwent triple-bypass heart surgery. Diamond, who is only 54, had the surgery on the ...

The impetus for this essay popped into my withered and exhausted brain a couple months ago when Diamond Head guitarist and lone original member, Brian Tatler, was doing the kissing hands and shaking ...

In a surprising overturn, the lustrous, blue-white element osmium has beaten diamond in a test of compressibility. Not used much today, osmium has been incorporated into alloys for fountain-pen tips ...