Career
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. As a guitarist in King Diamond, Wead shares lead guitar duties with Andy LaRocque.
Wead also works as a producer and sound engineer
Education Support Professionals East-II Horizon & East-II System Technologies-1
Jarrell joint venture-1 & joint venture-2 Mike Wead Signature Series
Yamaha CPX-1200 & CPX-600
Lincolnshire 6 Pod HD Pro X
Crown power amps
Seymour Duncan pickups
Dunlop picks & DR strings
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)
With Minions
Soul Mirror (2013)
With Entombed
When in Sodom (2012)
With Zoromr
Corpus Hermeticum (2015).