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DIAMOND HEAD To Perform Entire 'Lightning To The Nations' Album On Upcoming Tour

October 12, 2010

2010 is the 30th anniversary of DIAMOND HEAD's first album, "Lightning To The Nations" (a.k.a. The White Album). At selected dates on DIAMOND HEAD's upcoming European tour, the band will be playing the entire LP back to back for the first time ever.

"Lightning To The Nations" was recorded in seven days at Old Smithy Recording Studio in Worcester, England in 1979 and was released on October 3, 1980 through DIAMOND HEAD's own label Happy Face Records. The album came in a plain sleeve with no title, having on it only a signature of one of the band members and no track listing. The reason for this was that the band's manager, Reg Fellows, owned a cardboard factory and could produce blank sleeves at a low cost. There were originally only 1,000 copies pressed of the album, which were only available at their concerts or through mail-order at a price of £3.50.

The full track listing is as follows:

01. Lightning To The Nations
02. The Prince
03. Sucking My Love
04. Am I Evil?
05. Sweet & Innocent
06. It's Electric
07. Helpless

The track "Am I Evil?" was made famous by METALLICA as a B-side to the single "Creeping Death", released in 1984.

"Lightning To The Nations" was recently featured in Classic Rock magazine's 150 greatest debut albums of all time.

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