Evil Live

This album is actually from the concert at Milton Keynes, on June 1993. At that time Diamond Head just had made a comeback and performed a mix of new songs together with their classics that fans were familiar with. It was no coincidence that Diamond Head was opening up for the likes of Metallica and Megadeth. After all they clearly influenced a lot of the more refined and well known thrash acts of that era.

The very first cd is filled with live performance recorded during the concert, it is somewhat too short though, but does feature classics like “Am I evil?”, “Sucking my love” and “Helpless”. I can’t help it but I am missing “The prince”, “It’s electric” and of course "Lightning to the Nations".

The second cd features extra studio tracks coming from the “Death and Progress” album. With “Rock the nation” it even features a Montrose cover among other things. The production of the album is first rate, and will not disappoint. The guitars are excellent as always as well as the rest of the band.

Diamond Head is one of the most influential bands that came out of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. For that fact I would recommend Evil live, because it gives a nice combination of classics being performed live, that were so influential in so many well known bands, as well as giving a little different side of Diamond Head on the 2nd cd.