Diamond Nights

Artist: Diamond Head Label: Metal Blade Category: Music Average customer rating: Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 039841433623 EAN: 0039841433623 ASIN: B00005173B Release Date: 2000-11-21

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1. BEST NWOBHM
2. Great NWoBHM CDs
3. Best Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Albums
4. The Best of NWOBHM
5. Real Metal, Nu-Metal is garbage for posers!
6. Rock and Metal Greats throughout the Years
7. Overlooked and Underappreciated metal
8. just...to...fast!
9. 25 must-own metal records you won't hear on the radio.
10. The Most Influential Metal Bands/Albums Ever

Tracks:

1. We Won't Be Back
2. Sweet And Innocent
3. Streets Of Gold
4. The Prince
5. Helpless
6. I Don't Got
7. Lightning To The Nations
8. Play It Loud
9. It's Electric (Remix)
10. Am I Evil
11. Waited Too Long
12. Sucking My Love
13. Shoot Out The Lights
14. It's Electric
15. Diamond Lights

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1. Am I Evil?: Anthology
2. Angel Witch
3. Loose 'n' Lethal
4. Bandolier
5. In for the Kill!

Customer Reviews:

This rocks.......2006-02-28

I DON'T GET IT..........2004-11-10

4.5 stars - Awesome reissue of an awesome first album.......2004-05-30

In the late seventies and early eighties, the NWOBHM (New Wave Of British Heavy Metal) took the United Kingdom by storm. Tons of hard rocking bands, each more talented than the last, rocked their nation. Unfortunately, very few of these bands ever found success in their native country, and an even smaller number of them found success abroad. Diamond Head is a good example of one of these bands that became reasonably popular in their own nation, but gained almost no success outside England. Fortunately though, Metallica confesses to the band being an influence , and this has since helped their reputation (Metallica remade several of the tracks here, actually.) How does the band's debut album measure up? Read on for my review.

To put it simply, this is classic British metal the way it was meant to be played. Anyone who says this band is criminally underrated knows exactly what he or she is saying, plain and simple. Lightning To The Nations is the title track and album opener. This one's mid-paced and fairly melodic, an excellent way to start the album. With The Prince, the band experiments with some interesting guitar melodies in this track, many of which are unforgettable. Unfortunately, it can be a little hard to hear was Sean Harris is trying to sing, but it's A good track nonetheless. Sucking My Love, At nine minutes plus, is easily the longest track the album has to offer. Mostly melodic, with slow-mid pacing, it's not quite a ballad, not quite a metal song. Good song, but the length and redundancy should have been avoided. Am I Evil is The song that gave Diamond Head its godlike status (with SOME people, anyway.) Before the lyrics start, the band pulls off some of the best guitar I've ever heard. Once the lyrics start, the song stays reasonably mid-paced, but it gets faster after the first two verses. A bit overrated in the eyes of some of the band's fans, but deserving of the lofty reputation. Sweet And Innocent is everything a metal song should be: Short, fast-paced, and reasonably melodic. Easily the best song on the album. It's Electric is a mid-paced track featuring some interesting voice techniques by Harris. The guitar, bass, and drums all come together with his voice nicely. It's Way better than the Metallica version. Helpless is basically more of the same stuff the other tracks thus far have delivered, and that's a good thing. In the end, this is a DAMN good album.

There have been several reissues of this album over the years, and one of the most popular ones is this - the Diamond Nights version of the album. It's got the seven original album tracks, plus eight bonuses! However, it messes up the tracklisting - bonus tracks are mixed in with original album tracks. Still, this is the best (and one of the most readily available) issues of the album out there. As other reviewers have stated, the sound quality lacks in a few places, but this is probably as good as they could get it.

Diamond Head's debut is their most popular album, an I'm not surprised that it is constantly praised by fans. Following this release, the band would release two more albums - Living On Borrowed Time and Canterbury. They would then disband and begin recording again in the nineties, but they would never recapture their former glory. If you want to see where it all began for Diamond Head, pick this album up. It's worth buying.

This is the way metal should be.......2004-04-14

This CD is a reasonably good value (15 songs clocking in at over 70 minutes long) and the music is awesome, this is one of my favorite CD's that I own and I'm really happy that I got it, I actually first heard of them from a Black Sabbath compilation album and I also remember hearing Metallica's version of Am I Evil on the radio and I had no idea that it was Diamond Head that originally composed that song and I owe it to Metallica and Megadeth for being totally influenced by Diamond Head cause without them Diamond Head would've been long gone and it would be extremely impossible to find their albums.

Criminally Overlooked.......2002-04-28

Music CD:

1. Marijuana ~ Brujeria
2. Musical Chairs ~ Sammy Hagar
3. Teeth Of The Hydra ~ Omen
4. Bleed ~ Angel Dust
5. Parched With Thirst Am I and Dying ~ Celtic Frost
6. Head On ~ Samson
7. Xes Haereticum ~ Enthroned
8. Quintessence ~ Borknagar
9. Infernal Overkill/Sentence of Death ~ Destruction
10. Pharaoh of Gods ~ Necronomicon

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Meg & Cris at Carnegie Hall ~ Meg Christian w, Cris Williamson

The Other Side/Summon the Beast ~ Abyss

Flick of the Switch ~ AC, DC

L'air de Paris

Yar Kelour ~ Matlubeh

Reggae Free Mumia

Exit this Frame of Mind ~ Tom Beardslee

Beautiful Girls: Music From The Miramax Motion Picture ~ Various Artists

Hellsing ~ Various Artists

Ebony Elements ~ Various Artists