DIAMOND HEAD (2016) CD

Without Diamond Head, half the bands you love wouldn't exist. Metallica said so themselves, and for once the hype is earned.

This 2016 self-titled record is Diamond Head's first album in sixteen years, and it lands exactly where you'd hope, which is somewhere between the riff-worship of Lightning to the Nations and a band that knows it still has something to prove. Brian Tatler's guitar work remains one of the great unsung pillars of heavy metal, and this album treats that legacy seriously without disappearing into nostalgia. If you came to them through the Garage Inc. covers and never went back to the source, this is your correction. Hard rock with genuine pedigree, no apology.

Format: CD, digipak. Full length album. Released 2016. Origin: UK.

Fans of: Saxon, Motörhead, Metallica, Overkill, Manowar