The Best Of

by Diamond Head

The Best Of cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1999-01-01
  • Label: Vertigo
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:09:52
  • Community rating: 3.59/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Dave Mustaine, The Jolly Slaves, Robbie France, Mike Shipley, Christopher Heaton, Brian Tatler, Pete Vuckovic, Mike Hedges, Merv Goldsworthy, Jamie Lane, Karl Wilcox, Duncan Scott, Sean Harris, Andrew Scarth, Colin Kimberley

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A best-of collection from Diamond Head, the Stourbridge band whose early records were central to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. The set includes 'Am I Evil?', the song Metallica's covers carried to a far wider audience.

Genres

Descriptors: distorted, riff-heavy, harsh-vocals, fast, technical

Tracklist

  1. It's Electric (3:20)
  2. Shoot Out The Lights (4:04)
  3. Helpless (6:49)
  4. Sucking My Love (9:30)
  5. In The Heat Of The Night (4:56)
  6. Call Me (3:49)
  7. Lightning To The Nations (4:08)
  8. Borrowed Time (7:39)
  9. Am I Evil (7:20)
  10. Makin' Music (3:50)
  11. Out Of Phase (3:32)
  12. Ishmael (3:58)
  13. To The Devil His Due (6:57)

Credits

More from Diamond Head: full discography