# Mike Wead

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**Mike Wead** (born **Mickael Vikström** on 6 April 1967) is a [Swedish](/source/Sweden) guitarist who lives in [Stockholm](/source/Stockholm). Wead contributed to heavy metal bands such as *Hexenhaus*, [Memento Mori](/source/Memento_Mori_(band)), [Abstrakt Algebra](/source/Abstrakt_Algebra), [The Haunted](/source/The_Haunted_(Swedish_band)), [Edge of Sanity](/source/Edge_of_Sanity), [Candlemass](/source/Candlemass_(band)), [The Project Hate](/source/The_Project_Hate). Currently Wead is the guitarist of [Mercyful Fate](/source/Mercyful_Fate), [King Diamond](/source/King_Diamond_(band)), and bibleblack.[1]

## Discography

### With Mercyful Fate

1. *[Dead Again](/source/Dead_Again_(Mercyful_Fate_album))* (1998)
1. *[9](/source/9_(Mercyful_Fate_album))* (1999)

### With King Diamond

1. *[Abigail II: The Revenge](/source/Abigail_II:_The_Revenge)* (2002)
1. *[The Puppet Master](/source/The_Puppet_Master_(album))* (2003)
1. *[Deadly Lullabyes Live](/source/Deadly_Lullabyes)* (2004)
1. *[Give Me Your Soul... Please](/source/Give_Me_Your_Soul...Please)* (2007)
1. *Songs for the Dead Live* (2019)
1. *The Institute* (TBA)

### With *Hexenhaus*

1. *A Tribute to Insanity* (1988)
1. *At the Edge of Eternity* (1990)
1. *Awakening* (1991)
1. *Dejavoodoo* (1997)

### With Memento Mori

1. *Rhymes of Lunacy* (1993)
1. *Life, Death, and Other Morbid Tales* (1994)
1. *La Danse Macabre* (1996)
1. *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](/source/Candlemass_(band))**

- *[Nightfall](/source/Nightfall_(Candlemass_album))* (1987)
- *[As It Is, As It Was](/source/The_Best_of_Candlemass:_As_It_Is,_as_It_Was)* (1994)
- *Leif Edling*The Black Heart of Candlemass (2002)

**With [Memory Garden](/source/Memory_Garden)**

- *Verdict of Prosterity* (1998)

**With [Edge of Sanity](/source/Edge_of_Sanity)**

- *[Crimson II](/source/Crimson_II)* (2003)

**With [Notre Dame](/source/Notre_Dame_(band))**

- *Demi Monde Bizarros* (2004)

**With *In Aeternum***

- *Dawn of the New Aeon* (2005)

**With [Elvenking](/source/Elvenking_(band))**

- *[The Scythe](/source/The_Scythe_(album))* (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](/source/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](/source/Snowy_Shaw)**

- *Snowy Shaw is Alive!* (2012)
- *Nachtgeist* (2016)

**With *Minions***

- *Soul Mirror* (2013)

**With [Entombed](/source/Entombed_(band))**

- *When in Sodom* (2012)

**With *Zoromr***

- *Corpus Hermeticum* (2015)

**With [Devilish Impressions](/source/Devilish_Impressions)**

- *The I* (2017)

**With *Pigface Beauty***

- *Love & Hate* (2017)

## References

1. ["King Diamond, Memory Garden members join forces in Bibleblack"](https://web.archive.org/web/20090306035554/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=115319). [Blabbermouth.net](/source/Blabbermouth.net). 2 March 2009. Archived from [the original](http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=115319) on 6 March 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2009.

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