Mike Wead (born Mickael Vikström on 6 April 1967) is a Swedish guitarist who lives in Stockholm. Wead contributed to heavy metal bands such as Hexenhaus, Memento Mori, Abstrakt Algebra, The Haunted, Edge of Sanity, Candlemass, The Project Hate. Currently Wead is the guitarist of Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, and bibleblack.
Discography With Mercyful Fate
Dead Again (1998) 9 (1999)
With King Diamond
Abigail II: The Revenge (2002) The Puppet Master (2003) Deadly Lullabyes Live (2004) Give Me Your Soul... Please (2007) Songs for the Dead Live (2019) The Institute (TBA)
With Hexenhaus
A Tribute to Insanity (1988) At the Edge of Eternity (1990) Awakening (1991) Dejavoodoo (1997)
With Memento Mori
Rhymes of Lunacy (1993) Life, Death, and Other Morbid Tales (1994) La Danse Macabre (1996) Songs for the Apocalypse Vol IV (1997)
With Abstrakt Algebra
Abstrakt Algebra (1995)
With Bibleblack
The Black Swan Epilogue (2009)
With Escape The Cult
All You Want To (2014)
Selected Guest Appearances
With Candlemass
Nightfall (1987) As It Is, As It Was (1994) Leif Edling The Black Heart of Candlemass (2002)
With Memory Garden
Verdict of Prosterity (1998)
With Edge of Sanity
Crimson II (2003)
With Notre Dame
Demi Monde Bizarros (2004)
With In Aeternum
Dawn of the New Aeon (2005)
With Elvenking
The Scythe (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 Lustrate Process (2009) Bleeding The New Apocalypse (Cum Victriciis in Manibus Armis) (2011)
With Deadlands
Evilution (2012)
With Pharaoh
Bury the Light (2012)
With Snowy Shaw
Snowy Shaw is Alive! (2012) Nachtgeist (2016)
With Minions
Soul Mirror (2013)
With Entombed
When in Sodom (2012)
With Zoromr
Corpus Hermeticum (2015)
With Devilish Impressions
The I (2017)
With Pigface Beauty
Love & Hate (2017)
References