Diamond Head - One of the greatest bands, ever

Metal student Number of posts: 246 Age: 22 Registration date: 2008-02-17

Why has it took me so long to pick up something by them. Got their 'Best of' a few weeks and I've not stopped playing it. 'Am I Evil', 'Call Me', 'Shoot Out the Lights', 'Makin Music', 'Ishmael', 'To the Devil His Due', 'In the Heat of the Night', 'Borrowed Time', 'Sucking on My Love'...just full of timeless classics. What an amazing band, the songwriting is incredible! The guitarwork is incredible! The vocals are incredible! The atmosphere is incredible!

Anyone else fans of this band? I wanna pick up their studio albums but apparently the remastered mix is really weak (except on this compilation) so I'm gonna hunt down their vinyls I think.

Good stuff!

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One of my favorites Inglish bands... Very underrated band, "Lighting To The Nations" is simply a masterpiece!
"Borrowed Time" is still very good, but in "Canterbury" and "Death And Progress" there are only few songs that i like...

Their last "Whats In your Head" even without Harris is still good in my opinion, as a fan I really liked it! Wink

Great band. Love specialy their first two albums and their live album(ITS ELECTRIC) released on dvd and cd two years ago.

Metal master Number of posts: 592 Registration date: 2007-01-23

Good band. "Lightning To The Nations" is one of my favorite albums.

Metal is Forever Number of posts: 6377 Age: 33 Registration date: 2007-08-31

Yea their pretty good. never heard of them until Metallica did their song Helpless but since then Ive been hooked and tried to get their albums any time I could. I just picked up Borrowed Time and Canterberry on limited edition cd put out by metal mind. They sound awesome to me. Im a little confused though because I have a cd of theirs called Am I evil? and I think its a compilation or something but the versions of the songs on that album are different from the ones on their actual albums so they must have rerecorded them. Its taking me a while to get used to the way they actually sound but still great stuff! I ordered Lightening to the Nations as well the other day so I should be getting that one in the mail soon. Now I just need to get the last 2 albums for a reasonable price.

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DH is in my Top 10 all time favorite bands, and Brian Tatler (gtr) and Sean Harris (vox) are also high up on my list as favorites for their respective instruments. They are also an unbeatable songwriting team.

Borrowed Time is my favorite album of theirs and the one that first turned me on to them:

I also love their early singles and The White Album (aka Lightning to the Nations). A good sampling of all of that stuff was included on the Metal Blade comp Behold the Beginning.

And I already loved them prior to the METALLICA-induced notoriety they received.

Dog Will Hunt! Number of posts: 9882 Age: 36 Registration date: 2007-01-29

Tatler is a riff master like Iommi.

Metal student Number of posts: 246 Age: 22 Registration date: 2008-02-17

I honestly knew of their work before I knew that Metallica covered their stuff - the only Metallica cover I'd heard at that point was 'Whiskey in the Jar'. I don't think they do 'Its Electric' justice, really.

However, Metallica's first few demos are pretty much straight Diamond Head worship, too bad they stick to the more rock and rollish vibed songs rather than the darker, more serious feeling songs.

Metal master Number of posts: 587 Age: 20 Registration date: 2008-02-17

I love this band I heard them about a year ago and loved their Lightning to The Nations

Indeed they are.

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They're new CD is just awesome beyond belief.

Lord of all PBR's Number of posts: 21117 Age: 42 Registration date: 2007-02-21

The only DH album I have is the BEHOLD THE BEGINNING CD that Metal Blade put out in the late 80s/early 90s, which I believe is made up of most of the tracks from LIGHTNING TO THE NATIONS plus a few songs from assorted singles. Haven't listened to it in a while but it's a decent disc. Now that y'all have me thinkin about it I'll probably give that one another spin sometime soon.

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Bukkake Tsunami Number of posts: 15733 Age: 40 Registration date: 2007-02-01

Fat Freddy wrote:

The only DH album I have is the BEHOLD THE BEGINNING CD that Metal Blade put out in the late 80s/early 90s, which I believe is made up of most of the tracks from LIGHTNING TO THE NATIONS plus a few songs from assorted singles. Haven't listened to it in a while but it's a decent disc. Now that y'all have me thinkin about it I'll probably give that one another spin sometime soon.

That's the one I have too. Good stuff. I listen to that one fairly regularly.

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Tatler is a great guitar player but I had a hard time getting into Harris voice so I only have a greatest hits. Sucking My Love is one of the best of all time though.

nOOb master Number of posts: 4404 Age: 23 Registration date: 2007-05-16

just got lightning to the nations and i must say i am enjoying it very much

Lightning To The Nations is a heavy metal classic that every selfrespecting metal fan should own. Who can go wrong with brilliant epics like Sucking My Love? Laughing

But jokes aside, their first album is a classic. Don't know any of the other stuff though.

nOOb master Number of posts: 4404 Age: 23 Registration date: 2007-05-16

the version i have seems to sound radically different to other versions i have heard. i mean the recording quality

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