Tag: Diamond Head

  • The Dead Daisies in Birmingham, November 2018

    The Dead Daisies in Birmingham, November 2018

    The Dead Daisies, November 23rd, 2018 at the O2 Institute, Birmingham, UK A very busy year, this one, for the rock veterans The Dead Daisies. In January came the announcement of the pending album Burn It Down (released on April 6) and a 26-date UK and European tour following the release. A list of festivals…

  • Diamond Head – Diamond Head

    Diamond Head – Diamond Head

    Diamond Head has been around for the better part of 40 years. They’ve been there since the beginning, when heavy metal as a genre was being created. Their influence is well-documented; their importance in the canon of the heavy metal story is solidified. But you’d be hard-pressed to find any metalhead worth their salt not…

  • Diamond Head – self-titled

    Diamond Head – self-titled

    Does the world really need a new Diamond Head album in 2016? Don’t get me wrong, their early 80’s contributions to the NWOBHM cannon are classics—particularly their 1980 debut, Lightning to the Nations—but this is hardly the same band. Guitarist Brian Tatler is the only original member, and while we chastise the likes of Black…

  • BOOK REVIEW – The Explosive Early Years of the NWOBHM

    BOOK REVIEW – The Explosive Early Years of the NWOBHM

    Wheels of Steel: The Explosive Early Years of the NWOBHM by Martin Popoff (Power Chord Press) It’s now over 20 years since Riff Kills Man! hit the shelves, and, amazingly, Martin Popoff’s output appears to have gone into overdrive. He’s written or co-written over 50 books at this point, and banked interviews with every metal…

  • HELLBOUND RADIO Playlist – Sunday, June 23, 2013

    Hellbound Metal: “A day later than usual, but here is Sunday night’s playlist! We had all three hosts in on the show on Sunday night – for at least 20 minutes at the same time even. Sean was late getting to the show and Albert needed to leave early, so we only had all the…

  • Christian Mistress – Possession

    The words “retro” and “throwback” get used a lot when describing music, especially in the rock and metal realm. In the case of Christian Mistress it goes way beyond that, sonically speaking anyway. Every single track on Possession is steeped in classic metal awesomeness.

  • Photo Gallery: Diamond Head live at Heavy T.O.

    Photo Gallery: Diamond Head live at Heavy T.O., as shot by Albert Mansour and Adam Wills

  • Ten Reasons Not To Miss HEAVY T.O. This Weekend

    Here are ten reasons not to miss the HEAVY T.O. festival at Toronto’s Downview Park this weekend

  • Sonic Medusa – demo

    By Gruesome Greg Sonic Medusa is a brand-new quartet of heavy rock veterans like Greg Rogers of The Obsessed and Tom Five, who played in a sludge-metal band called Angel Rot—before joining White Zombie.  (Their other guitar player has him beat though. He played with Axl in the Hollywood Rose days…) When you can get…

  • Asylum: The Earth is the Insane Asylum of the Universe

    Shadow Kingdom Records has unearthed and re-released the 1985 demo of Maryland doom disciples Asylum, who later changed their name to Unorthodox and put out two classic albums in the 1990s.