Mike Wead is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 guitarist who lives in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

. Wead contributed to heavy metal bands such as Hexenhaus, Memento Mori

Memento Mori (band)

Memento Mori was a Swedish doom metal band with power metal influences. The band was founded by Messiah Marcolin and Mike Wead in 1992 after Messiah left Candlemass. After two albums, however, Messiah left the band; the third album was sung by a different singer. For the fourth album, Messiah...

, Abstrakt Algebra

Abstrakt Algebra

Abstrakt Algebra was a Swedish experimental metal band with influences from power metal and doom metal. It was founded by bassist Leif Edling in 1994, shortly after his main project Candlemass split up....

, The Haunted

The Haunted

The Haunted is a Swedish metal band from Gothenburg, formed in 1996.The original members were Anders & Jonas Björler, Peter Dolving, Adrian Erlandsson and Patrik Jensen...

, Edge of Sanity

Edge of Sanity

Edge of Sanity was a Swedish death metal band. Edge of Sanity are regarded alongside Opeth as being the first to fuse extreme metal styles like death and black metal with progressive rock.- History :...

, Witch, Firegod, Candlemass

Candlemass

Candlemass are an influential Swedish doom metal band established in 1984 by Leif Edling , their leader and songwriter. The band is originally from Stockholm. After releasing five full-length albums and touring extensively throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Candlemass disbanded in 1994, but...

, The Project Hate. Currently Wead is the guitarist of Mercyful Fate

Mercyful Fate

Mercyful Fate was a Danish heavy metal band from Copenhagen. Initially active from 1981 to 1985, they reunited in 1992. The band went on hiatus again in 2000, when frontman King Diamond decided to continue his solo career...

, King Diamond

King Diamond (band)

King Diamond is the heavy metal band that King Diamond formed after the split up of his heavy metal band Mercyful Fate, and the departure of Hank Shermann. He was joined by most members of the then defunct Mercyful Fate. The Satanic focus was replaced by a focus on horror stories...

, and bibleblack

Bibleblack

bibleblack is a Swedish heavy metal group founded in 2007 by King Diamond/Mercyful Fate guitarist Mike Wead and Memory Garden/Abstrakt Algebra guitarist Simon Johansson...

. As a guitarist in King Diamond, Wead shares lead guitar duties with Andy LaRocque

Andy LaRocque

Andy LaRocque is best known as a guitarist, songwriter, and occasional synth player for the band King Diamond.-Biography:...

. Wead also works as a producer and sound engineer.

With King Diamond

King Diamond (band)

King Diamond is the heavy metal band that King Diamond formed after the split up of his heavy metal band Mercyful Fate, and the departure of Hank Shermann. He was joined by most members of the then defunct Mercyful Fate. The Satanic focus was replaced by a focus on horror stories...

1. Abigail II: The Revenge
   Abigail II: The Revenge
   - Credits :*King Diamond – Vocals, Keyboards*Andy LaRocque – Guitar, Keyboards*Mike Wead – Guitar*Hal Patino – Bass*Matt Thompson – Drums*Kol Marshall – Additional Keyboards, Strings and Harpsichord...
   
   (2002)
2. The Puppet Master
   The Puppet Master (album)
   The Puppet Master is an album by King Diamond released in 2003. A limited edition includes a DVD on which King Diamond is telling the story of The Puppet Master...
   
   (2003)
3. Deadly Lullabyes Live
   Deadly Lullabyes
   Deadly Lullabyes Live is a live album from King Diamond, which was recording during The Puppet Master promotion tour. It spans two discs...
   
   (2004)
4. Give Me Your Soul... Please
   Give Me Your Soul...Please
   Give Me Your Soul...Please is a concept album by King Diamond released on June 26, 2007. The album's concept and cover art are both based on a painting titled "My Mother's Eyes." The black cat featured in the album is based on King's own cat, Magic....
   
   (2007)

With Hexenhaus

1. A Tribute To Insanity (1998)
2. At The Edge Of Eternity (1990)
3. Awakening (1991)
4. Dejavoodo (1997)

With Candlemass

Candlemass

Candlemass are an influential Swedish doom metal band established in 1984 by Leif Edling , their leader and songwriter. The band is originally from Stockholm. After releasing five full-length albums and touring extensively throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Candlemass disbanded in 1994, but...

1. Nightfall
   Nightfall
   Nightfall is the beginning of night .Nightfall may also refer to:-Novels, short stories, and comics:* Nightfall , an influential 1941 science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, later adapted into a radio program , novel , and two low-budget films of the same name* "Nightfall", a 1947 short story...
   
   (1987)
2. As It Is, As It Was
   As It Is, As It Was
   As It Is, As It Was is a compilation album by Candlemass. It consists of tracks from the first five albums, a live album and a couple of EPs...
   
   (1994)
3. Leif Edling
   Leif Edling
   Leif Edling is best known as the main songwriter and bass player of the Swedish doom metal band Candlemass.Edling started his musical career in the band Trilogy, then under the name of Toxic, as a singer together with Ian Haugland in 1979. He then played in a band named Witchcraft but left in...
   
    The Black Heart Of Candlemass (2002)

With Memento Mori

Memento Mori (band)

Memento Mori was a Swedish doom metal band with power metal influences. The band was founded by Messiah Marcolin and Mike Wead in 1992 after Messiah left Candlemass. After two albums, however, Messiah left the band; the third album was sung by a different singer. For the fourth album, Messiah...

1. Rhymes of Lunacy
   Rhymes of Lunacy
   Rhymes of Lunacy is the debut album by Memento Mori. It was released in 1993 by Black Mark Productions.-Track listing:# "The Rhyme" – 1:04# "The Seeds of Hatred" – 6:09# "Morbid Fear" – 4:19# "The Caravan of Souls" – 5:54...
   
   (1993)
2. Life, Death, and Other Morbid Tales
   Life, Death, and Other Morbid Tales
   Life, Death, and Other Morbid Tales is the second album by Memento Mori. It was released in 1994 by Black Mark Productions.-Track listing:# "To Travel Within" – 5:19# "The Passage..." – 2:26# "A Passenger on Psycho's Path" – 8:54...
   
   (1994)
3. La Danse Macabre (album)
   La Danse Macabre (album)
   La Danse Macabre is the third album by the Swedish doom metal band Memento Mori. It is their only album without singer and founder Messiah Marcolin...
   
   (1996)
4. Songs for The Apocalypse Vol IV
   Songs for the Apocalypse, Vol. 4
   Songs for the Apocalypse, Vol. 4 is the fourth and final album by Memento Mori. It was released in 1997 by Black Mark Productions.-Track listing:# "The Things You See " – 4:24# "Under My Blackened Sky" – 4:13...
   
   (1997)

Selected Guest Appearances

With Memory Garden

Memory Garden

Memory Garden is a doom metal and heavy metal band from Kumla, Sweden. They were signed to Metal Blade Records until 2002, and signed with Vic Records in 2006....

• Verdict Of Prosterity (1998)

With Edge Of Sanity

Edge of Sanity

Edge of Sanity was a Swedish death metal band. Edge of Sanity are regarded alongside Opeth as being the first to fuse extreme metal styles like death and black metal with progressive rock.- History :...

• Crimson II
  Crimson II
  - Credits :* Dan Swanö − vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass, drums, animal sounds, music composition, production, mixing & engineeringGuests* Roger Johansson − lead death growl* Jonas Granvik − Backing death growl* Mike Wead − lead guitar & engineering...
  
  (2003)

With Notre Dame

Notre Dame (band)

Notre Dame was a Swedish metal band formed in 1997 and disbanded in 2004. Members included Snowy Shaw and Vampirella and Jean-Pierre de Sade and Mannequin de Sade two brothers who claimed to be descendants of legendary revolutionary writer Marquis de Sade.The band mixed black metal with elements...

• Demi Monde Bizarros (2004)

With In Aeternum

• Dawn Of The New Aeon (2005)

With Elvenking

Elvenking (band)

Elvenking is a folk/power metal band from Italy. As of 2010, the band has released one demo, one single, and six full-length studio albums.- Biography :...

• The Scythe
  The Scythe (album)
  The Scythe is the fourth studio album by Italian folk metal band Elvenking. The Scythe was released on September 14, 2007 through AFM Records in all European countries, and November 7 in the USA by Candlelight Records....
  
  (2007)

With Her Whisper

• The Great Unifier (2008)

With Sinners Paradise

• The Awakening (2009)

With Kamlath

• Stronger Than Frost (2010)

With The Project Hate MCMXCIX

The Project Hate MCMXCIX

The Project Hate MCMXCIX is a Swedish industrial death metal band. It was formed in 1998 and is one of the few death metal bands with a female and a male singer.- History :...

• The Lustrate Process
  The Lustrate Process
  The Lustrate Process is the sixth studio album by Swedish death metal band The Project Hate MCMXCIX. It was released in July 2009 on the Dutch label Vic Records.-Track listing:- Personnel :* Jörgen Sandström – vocals* Jo Enckell – vocals* Lord K...
  
  (2009)
• Bleeding The New Apocalypse (Cum Victriciis In Manibus Armis) (2011)

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