Techno, I've done tons of interviews after 13 years or so! Everyone from Virgin Steele, Riot and Exciter etc. to Mayhem, Burzum and Gorgoroth. And everything inbetween.
King Diamond is a very kind and soft spoken old hippie. I've spoken with him several times, he reminds me very much of my old hippie uncle (without the stage makeup of course). Well, to be brutally honest KD hasn't released a real solid winner from beginning to end since those classic early albums. Of course, Mercyful Fate's early material was just as great! It's just lost those catchy hooklines that were dangling everywhere in those early albums. One time you happen to be listening to bass and it's so groovy you can't stand it and so the next time you're listing to the guitars which are brilliant sounding and amazingly thoughout... The new albums have all the ingredients to be great but fall into the hole of so many bands. When they loose those members who wrote such substantial parts or when those members start putting their focus into new bands, like Hank Sherman and Andy LaRocque did from M. Fate/K. Diamond. That causes an element of magic to dissappear. Not that the albums are bad, they just don't grab you with all those catchy parts like Fatal Portait, Them and Conspiracy did. The Eye LP was OK too but I started to wander after that but still listened to each new album to review them and do the interviews when the labels came a callin'.Now I let the other writers do the interviews cos they're still excited about new stuff.
I'm not really a fan of other music, there is more than enough variety available in metal for me. Classical inspired power metal, heavy metal, speed metal, thrash, black & Death and any weird combinations of them people come up with. I do occasionally like dark industrial/noise stuff like: Brighter Death Now, Laibach (Opus Dei mostly), MZ.412, Con(trol)Dom(inate). etc... I also like medieval stuff released by Sweden's Cold Meat Industry label who released things like Mortiis, Arcana. CMI also released my own band from the early 1990s called Cernunnos Woods which was not metal but medieval ambient stuff.