Mike Wead (real name Mikael Wikström) is a Swedish guitarist who lives in Stockholm. Wead contributed to many heavy metal bands, inluding Hexenhaus, Memento Mori, Abstrakt Algebra, The Haunted, Edge of Sanity, Witch, Maninnya Blade, Firegod. Currently Wead is the guitarist of both Mercyful Fate and King Diamond. Wead also works as a producer and sound engineer. Stockholm? is the capital and the largest city in Sweden. ... Abstrakt Algebra was a Swedish power metal band that was founded in 1995 by Leif Edling after the band Candlemass fell apart. ... The Haunted logo The Haunted are a Swedish metal band, formed in 1996. ... Edge of Sanity are a Swedish melodic death metal band whose work often delves into experimental, even progressive, territory. ... Mercyful Fate is a Progressive/heavy metal group, and helped inspire black metal (by playing a form of proto-black metal). ... King Diamond is the band that was formed after the split up of Mercyful Fate - following the departure of Hank Sherman. ...
MIKE: Well, we have an actress there; her name is Jody and she´ll be doing role as a grandma and stuff.
MIKE: Well, I had to put it aside for a while just until the summer and release it after the summer because of the touring commitments and the recording commitments with KING DIAMOND.
MIKE: First off, this is the record I was very glad that our label decided to do, y´know, a limited picture album.
Wead, I wrote then, was the masked guy who, on Christmas Eves from 1982 to 1988, had dashed into the Springfield office of the Missouri Division of Family Services and dropped off armloads of presents and wads of cash — $2,000 one year.
As Wead's Washington activities escalated, he spent more and more time in D.C. He moved there in 1988 to be the first President Bush's "special liaison to religious and conservative groups." He lost that job in August 1990, reportedly after clashing with some in the first Bush administration over government policies regarding gays.
Wead has described the former Missouri governor and senator as "the real professional of the religious right." Appearing a couple of years ago on Trinity Broadcasting Network — which is the creation of yet another former Springfieldian, Paul Crouch — Wead said that Ashcroft was the victim of "very bigoted attacks because of his religion."
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