{"id":86154,"date":"2020-11-20T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=86154"},"modified":"2020-11-20T13:48:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T13:48:07","slug":"news-diamond-head-release-rerecordings-album-lightning-to-the-nations-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-diamond-head-release-rerecordings-album-lightning-to-the-nations-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"DIAMOND HEAD Issue Animated Music Video For Cover Of Metallica\u2019s \u2018No Remorse\u2019 (November 20th, 2020) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

DIAMOND HEAD Issue Animated Music Video For Cover Of Metallica\u2019s \u2018No Remorse\u2019<\/strong><\/span>
\nNovember 30th, 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Stourbridge, England-based hard rock \/ heavy metal band Diamond Head have released an official animated music video for their version of Metallica\u2019s \u2018No Remorse\u2019. Created and directed by Costin Chioreanu, the clip can be viewed below.<\/p>\n

Diamond Head\u2019s rendidtion of \u2018No Remorse\u2019 is featured as a bonus track on the band\u2019s forthcoming Lightning To The Nations 2020<\/em> album.<\/p>\n

Guitarist and co-founder Brian Tatler said: \u201cI wanted to cover a song from Metallica\u2019s debut album, Kill \u2019Em All<\/em><\/a> [1983]. \u201cPartly because Metallica covered songs from Diamond Head\u2019s debut album Lightning To The Nations<\/em> and it felt like things have come full-circle to me. None of the band members knew how to play any of the songs from Kill \u2019Em All<\/em> and I eventually decided we should all learn \u2018No Remorse\u2019. Then when we got into the rehearsal room, we played \u2018No Remorse\u2019 and immediately it just sounded great, it was very \u2018Diamond Head\u2019 and it really suited us as a band. Of the four covers we ended up doing, \u2018No Remorse\u2019 sounded the best straight away. I\u2019ve seen Metallica live over 20 times and they don\u2019t play \u2018No Remorse\u2019 very often, but it\u2019s always great when they do!\u201d<\/p>\n

Vocalist and producer Rasmus Bom Andersen added: \u201cOf all the four covers, we almost didn\u2019t have to work on \u2018No Remorse\u2019. We all had to learn the parts, and it\u2019s very difficult to play, but in rehearsal it did sound fantastic and we thought: \u2018yeah, yeah, it\u2019s gonna be mega\u2019. It was almost surreal when we did it because it just felt incredibly familiar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Diamond Head issue a 40th Anniversary re-recording of their 1980 debut album Lightning To The Nations<\/em> on November 27th, 2020 through Silver Lining Music. The outing will be made available in various formats and can be pre-ordered here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tatler commented: \u201cWe thought it\u2019d be great to re-record the debut album with this line-up and the modern technology available. The original album was recorded and mixed in a week, and we were very young; still 19-20 years old when it was recorded, so there\u2019s a lot of that youthful energy. But we didn\u2019t have the technique, time, or craftsmanship to record it with the sort of power that we could now. So that was a real thing to savour: the opportunity to go in the studio and record these songs fresh and vibrant.<\/p>\n

\u201cLightning To The Nations 2020<\/em> is packed with ideas and riffs, but there is some thought gone into it all and maybe that\u2019s why it still sounds really good now and we\u2019re still having conversations about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recorded over several sessions between various locations from France to band member home studios, Lightning To The Nations 2020<\/em>\u2019s central hub was vocalist and producer Rasmus Bom Andersen\u2019s Raw Sound Studio in London. It\u2019s where Tatler and Andy Abberley did the guitars in February and March of 2020. With the COVID-19 chaos striking, Andersen worked on the album between April and July, with Tatler\u2019s watchful ear inspecting final mixes and tweaks in early August before sending off to mastering at Metropolis in London.<\/p>\n

Lightning To The Nations 2020<\/em> also features four cover renditions included as bonus tracks; Judas Priest\u2019s \u2018Sinner\u2019, Led Zeppelin\u2019s \u2018Immigrant Song\u2019, Deep Purple\u2019s \u2018Rat Bat Blue\u2019 and Metallica\u2019s \u2018No Remorse\u2019.<\/p>\n

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The track listing is as follows:<\/p>\n

01. \u2018Lightning To The Nations\u2019
\n02. \u2018The Prince\u2019
\n03. \u2018Sucking My Love\u2019
\n04. \u2018Am I Evil?\u2019
\n05. \u2018Sweet And Innocent\u2019
\n06. \u2018It\u2019s Electric\u2019
\n07. \u2018Helpless\u2019
\n08. \u2018No Remorse\u2019 (Metallica cover)
\n09. \u2018Immigrant Song\u2019 (Led Zeppelin cover)
\n10. \u2018Sinner\u2019 (Judas Priest cover)
\n11. \u2018Rat Bat Blue\u2019 (Deep Purple cover)<\/p>\n

Diamond Head\u2019s line-up is as follows:<\/p>\n

Rasmus Bom Andersen (vocals)
\nBrian Tatler (guitar)
\nAndy Abberley (guitar)
\nDean Ashton (bass)
\nKarl Wilcox (drums)<\/p>\n

Music videos were released for the re-record versions of \u2018It\u2019s Electric\u2019 and \u2018Am I Evil?\u2019. Both clips can also be viewed below.<\/p>\n

Speaking about \u2018It\u2019s Electric\u2019, Tatler said: \u201cWritten 15th June, 1978 it was the 45th song Diamond Head ever wrote. It was kind of our version of an AC\/DC song. I had noticed that AC\/DC had gaps in their riffs so I thought I would do one in that vein and out came \u2018It\u2019s Electric\u2019. It was fast and exciting and soon found its way into our live set.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had the pleasure of opening for AC\/DC in January 1980 and performed \u2018It\u2019s Electric\u2019 in the set, I looked over to my left and noticed we were being watched by Bon Scott! <\/p>\n

\u201cMetallica covered this song on their 1998 album Garage Inc.<\/em>. Sean [original vocalist Sean Harris] and I wrote \u2018It\u2019s Electric\u2019 in the key of G but Metallica transposed it to F# to make it easier to play. I have played it their way ever since. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis new recording of \u2018It\u2019s Electric\u2019 still has the spark (no pun intended) of the original, but with modern production. So much has changed in recording technology over 40 years that we were bound to take advantage of it in this digital age.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regarding \u2018Am I Evil?\u2019, Tatler stated: \u201c\u2018Am I Evil?\u2019 is one of the songs that Metallica covered. I got a call from Lars Ulrich on September 20th, 1986 to say that Metallica were playing that evening as part of the Master Of Puppets tour at the Birmingham Odeon, which was the best venue in the Midlands to see bands. Lars invited me along, so I caught the number nine bus, picked up my backstage pass, and was shown into Metallica\u2019s dressing room. I was then introduced to James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, and Cliff Burton. Lars suggested that I get up and play \u2018Am I Evil?\u2019 on stage with them in the encore. I, of course, agreed and, after watching their amazing set for an hour, I went backstage again where the guitar techs strapped James\u2019 white Flying V onto me. Then Lars ran to the center-vocal mic and introduced me as, \u2018the guy who wrote this next song!\u2019 The five of us played \u2018Am I Evil?\u2019 up to the fast section then Metallica went into \u2018Damage, Inc.\u2019 and I scarpered off stage. It was a brilliant experience!<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a really great experience to revisit and re-record \u2018Am I Evil?\u2019 and the Lightning To The Nations<\/em> album for 2020. It\u2019s also about time that Diamond Head\u2019s biggest song finally has a video. Thank you to Andy Pilkington [Very Metal Art] for this mini epic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Diamond Head\u2019s eighth studio record The Coffin Train<\/em> was released<\/a> in May 2019 via Silver Lining Music.<\/p>\n

Promotional photograph by Nic Gaunt.<\/em><\/p>\n