Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography
DIAMOND HEAD
LIGHTNING TO THE NATIONS 2020
Release Date : Nov 20th 2020
I will never forget the day that an LP envelope arrived at the house sometime in 1980 – and in that was a plain white album cover, with a signature in the top corner, and a vinyl LP with a blank white label inside! This was one of the first run of 1,000 albums sold at gigs or mail order from the band, and it remains a prize possession today.
Diamond Head were one of foremost bands of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement, and were lauded at the time by the likes of Metallica, who covered some of these tracks in their early sets, and released Am I Evil as a cover in 1984, and Megadeth as being important influences of their sound.
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