 The Danish metal band Mercyful Fate had also demonstrated "a Gothic obsession with evil and the occult".Frontman King Diamond continued exploring his interest in gothic storytelling after establishing a solo career under his own moniker, issuing "a series of concept albums which told Gothic horror tales with sound effects and song".During the 1980s, the former Misfits frontman Glenn Danzig also "occupied the no man's land between Goth and heavy metal".