Diamond Head

What’s In Your Head?

Livewire/Cargo Records

This album is being reviewed and presented a few months following its release date. It doesn’t really mean a thing. It could have been done the same day or twelve hours later. It’s the content that counts, as long as you’re willing to read about a band you indeed like.

Two and a half years after “All will be revealed”, the English are back. Is there life after Sean Harris? What do you think? You listened to the album back then, saw the band live on stage, for the fist time in Greece; you actually felt the riffs, the style, the vox. Should we let it out for ya?

Okay, let’s play it loud. Naturally there is “afterlife”. Nick Tart certified that a few years ago and today he is simply sealing the whole thing, by using his own stamp. The band is throwing at us… the rhythms, the themes, the melodies, the chords. Brian Tatler’s guitar sounds BIG, it has been for almost thirty years now and the “new” singer is “talking” to us the way we’d love to hear. Firm voice, powerful, “black” at some parts, with a beautiful color, one can easily state that it carries on the tradition of the huge ‘70s voices. Listen and simply agree with me. As for the sons, the “seed” is always there, the specific “something” that DH possess, thru a modern know-how and today’s prism. For a sec I thought to myself “those riffs sound like Metallica and Megadeth”, however, I instantly “recovered” and just smiled. I had acted like a fool. Those riffs belong to Diamond Head and the young Metallica, back then, based their music on Diamond Head and Sweet Savage riffing.

I must say I spotted a tendency for a more boogie motif, listen to “I feel no pain” and “Victim” for instance. Nice… Those were the 80s of course… is it a circle after all?

“Tonight”, “Prey for me”… the album is SOLID. And that makes us glad. There is this great Rock magazine, where you can read the following, about DH. “Come on in, life without Sean Harris is fine”! Happy to confirm!

Costas Koulis