Last night I got the chance to see the legendary British heavy metal band Diamond Head at The Forge in Edmonton. Other bands on the bill were local bands Echoes Of Apathy whom I missed, Shocker another E Town band that play cover songs, kind of weird for them to be on this bill, and Calgary band Dextress. But lets be honest the only reason anyone was at The Forge on a Tuesday night was to see Diamond Head.
For a Tuesday night it wasn't a bad turnout for Diamond Head's first ever visit to Edmonton. They are currently doing an extensive Apocalypse Metal Canadian Tour. Would have been nice to see the place packed, but still wasn't too bad.
Diamond Head are one of the originators of thrash metal having been around since 1976, starting out in Stourbridge, England. They have been a major influence on bands such as Metallica and Megadeth. It's probably because of Metallica that Diamond Head is still around and drawing an audience, and that's good because it's always good to see a great band like Diamond Head get the recognition they so deserve.
This version of Diamond Head had only one original member that being guitarist and co-founder Brian Tatler. On drums was Karl Wilcox who has been in and out of the band since 1991, on vocals was Rasmus Bom Anderson who did admirable job on the songs, his stage presence and voice reminded me of Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden at times. On bass was newcomer Dean Ashton who also did a great job of holding the rhythm section down.
Diamond Head did about an hour and a half show playing some new songs from their 2016 self titled release including songs "Bones" and "Shout At The Devil" which both sounded like old school thrash metal. And of course the band did the three songs that Metallica have covered "Am I Evil", "Prince" and "Helpless". Those songs got great responses from the crowd with everyone singing along and banging there heads and pumping there fists. The songs sounded amazing too, it was so cool to be two feet away from Brian Tatler watching and listening to him play those classic riffs that all metal heads have got to know over the years.
All and all this was a great heavy metal show. I had to laugh at how many guts I saw in the audience sporting their jean jacket vests covered in old classic metal band patches. Old school it was! Good times!!!
Setlist from the show.
Diamond Head at The Forge.
T-shirt front.
T-shirt back.
I had already bought a shirt when at the end of the night I realized they had this t-shirt for 15 dollars, so I had to have that one as well.
T-shirt front.
T-shirt back.
Autographed vinyl.
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