Artist
Diamond Head
Diamond Head is a heavy metal artist from Stourbridge, England formed in 1976. 29 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Heavy Metal · Stourbridge, England · Best heavy metal albums
- 29
- Releases
- 1981–2025
- Active years
- 1976
- Formed
Artist
Diamond Head is a heavy metal artist from Stourbridge, England formed in 1976. 29 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Heavy Metal · Stourbridge, England · Best heavy metal albums
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The Coffin Train
2019
Diamond Head
2016
Borrowed Time
1982
Canterbury
1983
All Will Be Revealed
2005
What's in Your Head?
2007
Evil Live
1993
Live And Electric
2025
Lightning To The Nations (The White Album) (Remastered 2021)
2022
Lightning To The Nations 2020
2020
Live at the BBC
2010
Live in the Heat of the Night
2000
Death and Progress
1993
Death & Progress
1993
Behold the Beginning
1992
Lightning to the Nations
1981
It's Electric
Single · 2006
Helpless (Live At The Aberdeen Music Hall)
Single · 2025
The Messenger (Live At The Cambridge Corn Exchange)
Single · 2025
Sweet and Innocent (Lost Original Mix) (Remastered 2021)
Single · 2022
Lightning to the Nations (Lost Original Mix) (Remastered 2021)
Single · 2022
No Remorse
Single · 2020
Am I Evil?
Single · 2020
Belly of the Beast
Single · 2019
Death by Design
Single · 2019
Bones
Single · 2016
Acoustic First Cuts EP
EP · 2012
Four Cuts
EP · 1982
Diamond Lights
EP · 1981
Diamond Head are an English heavy metal band formed in 1976 in Stourbridge, England. The band is recognised as one of the leading members of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and is acknowledged by later bands like Metallica and Megadeth as an important early influence. Formed by school friends in 1976 Brian Tatler and Duncan Scott with Tatler playing on a cheap fuzzy guitar and Scott on biscuit tins. The name "Diamond Head" came from a Phil Manzanera album that Tatler had a poster of in his room. Sean Harris later joined the band after they learned about his vocal abilities while on a school trip, singing Gene Vincent's 1956 hit "Be-Bop-A-Lula", and auditioned him in Tatler's bedroom. Bassist Colin Kimberley, a friend of Tatler's from primary school, joined the band in 1978 (and was in fact Diamond Head's fourth bassist). The band started to play local gigs in the Black Country area, with their first gig at High Park School in Stourbridge on 10 February 1977 but things did not go too smoothly at that gig, with feedback problems marring the start of the concert. In their early days, the band played few cover songs and concentrated on their own material. Exceptions were Black Sabb…