The Playlist of Life --- Trollheart's resurrected Journal

Unknown Soldier · 07-05-2013, 04:13 PM

Nice Diamond Head review, the problem with Diamond Head was quite simply that they did everything wrong. They used a family member as a manager instead of a professional, dished out their debut album in a cheap and bland cover in an age where metal sold by its album cover (just look at every big album cover around at that time) refused to gig in London as they felt they didn't need to and were soon relegated to supporting bands that didn't even come close to their own talent. When they finally got a break, instead of building on it they then decided to go and record Canterbury, very much the type of album a metal band puts out when they've already made it big and not the type of album that metal needed from the band. Personally I think their debut is one of the top 10 metal albums ever recorded.

Several years later and thanks to the Metallica connection, they then got another chance of success but both bad luck and bad decisions blew it for them again.

I once read that at the time they were seen as the next Led Zeppelin by the music press, but I think that referred to their talent and not so much their actual sound.