{"id":14528,"date":"2017-08-22T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=14528"},"modified":"2017-08-23T10:53:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T17:53:36","slug":"heavy-metal-legends-diamond-head-set-to-rock-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/08\/22\/heavy-metal-legends-diamond-head-set-to-rock-victoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy metal legends Diamond Head set to rock Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"

How often do you think of where the music you listen to came from? How did it progress over time? Heavy metal as we know it today wasn\u2019t always so heavy, and Diamond Head has been around to see a lot of the progression. Now, the legendary band, who cut their teeth in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement, are coming to town; guitarist Brian Tatler says he\u2019s looking forward to coming to some smaller towns in Canada on this North American tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve done Toronto and Vancouver. This time we\u2019re doing some places I can barely pronounce,\u201d he says with a laugh, \u201cand I\u2019m thinking, \u2018Where\u2019s that?\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n

Tatler says the 10-year hiatus the band took between 1983\u2019s Canterbury<\/em> and 1993\u2019s Death and Progress<\/em> allowed him to focus on other musical endeavours, but he never gave up on the band. Today, he is the only original member.<\/p>\n

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The modern-day version of metal vets Diamond Head (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI worked in a studio and I formed another band,\u201d he says. \u201cI became a kind of studio engineer. Diamond Head just stopped in 1985, and then it reformed in 1990; we probably needed a break from each other, you know? That\u2019s the way it happened. Once you get dropped by a record label it\u2019s hard to come back from that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reasons behind the band getting dropped, says Tatler, come down to business decisions and a lack of resources.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t have the management or the sales base, really, to keep us going. Everything just dried up. We were dropped by the label, and nobody else would sign the band.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tatler took his passion, and his career, into his own hands after that by simply keeping on.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried to keep going in my way and keep writing songs and things,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Despite administrative struggles over the years, some Diamond Head songs have still managed to reach millions of people, thanks to one of the biggest bands in the world. Metallica are champions of the band, having covered Diamond Head classics \u201cAm I Evil?\u201d, \u201cThe Prince,\u201d and \u201cHelpless,\u201d among others.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been fantastic to watch and to be part of,\u201d says Tatler about Metallica\u2019s support of the band, adding that he always gets VIP invites to Metallica\u2019s UK shows.<\/p>\n

Tatler says Diamond Head\u2019s sound comes from listening to \u201970s rock like Rush, Deep Purple, and AC\/DC. It goes back to the aforementioned New Wave of British Heavy metal movement, which started in the late \u201970s and gave rise to bands such as Iron Maiden and Def Leppard.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s titled the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, just to give it a focus really, I presume, but we were all just doing our things, our respective talents,\u201d says Tatler. \u201cYou pull your style, you\u2019ve got all your favourite bands; you try and write songs. It just comes from there, and if you\u2019ve got some talent and tenacity you can hopefully pull it together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Diamond Head
\nSaturday, August 26
\n$25, V-lounge
\nfacebook.com\/events\/290095771442491<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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