Well, here’s some exciting news.

When we last heard from King Diamond more than a year ago, he had just undergone triple bypass open heart surgery, and therefore understandably had to take “a break from music and the music business altogether until further notice.”

Well, presumably he’s doing much better now and is getting ready to make his big comeback, because according to a posting on His Majesty’s official website earlier this week, The King has just hired ICM’s Nick Storch to book North and South American tours for him, and Paul Ryan at The Agency Group to book his tours in the rest of the world. Which would certainly imply that he’s getting ready to hit the road again — I mean, why hire those dudes, let alone release a statement announcing their hiring, if he wasn’t gearing up for touring?

And the statement gets even teasier as it goes on: “There’ll be a lot more great news coming the next couple of weeks,” His Highness himself says. “It’s been difficult keeping everything under wraps, but soon it will all be out in the open.”

So, yeah. Nothing official, but that sounds like a tour tease if ever there was one.

Hopefully we’ll know more very, very soon. ‘Cause a King Diamond tour would be ssssswwwwweeeeetttt.

-AR