Diamond Head
Formed: 1976
From:
Stourbridge,
United Kingdom
Last Known Status: Active
Diamond Head Interviews and Features
Below are our features and interviews with Diamond Head.
Interview
Diamond Head's Karl Wilcox loves Psycho Las Vegas
Diamond Head recently created a buzz at this year's version of Psycho Las Vegas by injecting the festival crowd with a much needed dose of New Wave of British Heavy Metal. MetalUnderground.com sat down with drummer Karl Wilcox after their set on August 19th, to bring us up to speed with the band and what to expect from them in the future. More...
Interview
Diamond Head Discusses Self-Titled Album
Although Diamond Head paved the way for the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, they never achieved the success of NWOBHM bands like Motorhead and Iron Maiden. Money never seemed to be the driving factor for The Midlands-based group, though. The band was interested in making good music. In fact, their penchant for writing good songs is what caught the eye of a fledgling Metallica who covered many of their songs live and on recordings such as the “Live Metal Up Your Ass” Demo and “Garage Days Revisited.” Once Metallica really broke out and became one of rock’s biggest successes, songs like “Helpless” and “Am I Evil” resonated with the metal establishment.
It’s not that Diamond Head hasn’t achieved some major success. In fact, at one time they were considered the second coming of Led Zeppelin. They signed to MCA Records to release “Borrowed Time” in 1982, but were dropped in ’85 and the band split up later. The group has split up and had large gaps between records, but forty-years later they are still relevant and on the verge of releasing their seventh album, a self-titled effort (due June 3rd).
Diamond Head’s career has depended on hard work. Even the self-titled effort, which comes thirty-six years after their “Lightning To The Nations” debut full-length, the band is still very much a DIY band. In fact, the forthcoming record was almost a self-release. There has to be something the reinvigorates artists to continue playing music for forty years without making major money. In the case of the self-titled album it’s very much due to new vocalist Rasmus Bom Andersen. In the following phone conversation, band original and lead guitarist Brian Tatler gives Metalunderground.com the scoop on creating said album and why he is so excited for his fans to hear the album.
