Mike Wead
Mike Wead
Background information
Birth name	Mickael Vikström
Born	(1967-04-06) 6 April 1967 Boden, Sweden
Genres	Heavy metal, Progressive metal, Thrash metal
Occupation(s)	musician, studio engineer
Instrument(s)	guitar, keyboard
Years active	1987–present

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.^[1]

Discography

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