July 22nd 2006

DIAMOND HEAD - 'To The Devil His Due' (SMADVD260X)

Release Date: 21st August 2006

Following hot on the heels of the 'It's Electric' album (SMACD941) released in June comes 'To The Devil His Due', a live DVD recorded at The Astoria London in November 2005.
As part of the NWOBHM that emerged in the early '80s, the Diamond Head brand of metal led Sounds metal editor Geoff Barton to claim that 'there are more good riffs in your average single Diamond Head song than there are in the first four Black Sabbath albums'.
He's not alone. Lars Ulrich covered a host of Diamond Head numbers including 'Am I Evil?, 'It's Electric and 'Helpless' (all of which feature on the DVD), and both his band Metallica along with Megadeth have famously cited the band as an important early influence.
This year the band has started to rattle people's cages again with the combination of the live shows, album release, and such profile raisers as having tracks in both the cult metal movie 'A Headbangers Journey', and also on the 'Songs That Drove Metallica' album (which had 5 Diamond Head tracks) proving that they are indeed back in business. With Kerrang! writer Dom Lawson describing the band as "one of the greatest British heavy metal bands of all time… criminally underrated, with a staggering catalogue of magnificent, shit-kicking anthems", and concluding that "There has never been a better time to reassess this remarkable band", it's time to start paying attention to Diamond Head all over again.
This show captures the resurrected band storming through all the favorites including 'The Prince', 'Sucking My Love' and 'Lightning To The Nations'.

Extra DVD features: In the studio footage making new album - "All Will Be Revealed" & Full interview with the band.

The above is a press release from Snapper Records. The brand new DVD can be bought from the Secret Records web site for just £11.99

All Will Be Revealed is being released in Japan on 31st January 2007 on Dingwall Music Inc

An interview with Brian, Karl and Nick can be seen on www.banned-produxionstv.net

The video for In The Heat Of The Night can now be seen on the Media page

Diamond Head's 'To The Devil His Due' DVD will be available in North American from November 21st 2006 via MVD Visual.