Metallica have lined Diamond Head’s Am I Evil? with lend a hand from the New Wave Of British Heavy Steel favourites’ founding guitarist Brian Tatler.
The team-up happened the day gone by (June 26) all over Metallica’s headline spot on the Lots Of Rock pageant in Oslo, Norway.
Watch pictures of the efficiency beneath.
Metallica co-founders James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich are longtime Diamond Head fanatics, and the band recorded a canopy of Am I Evil? for the b-side in their 1984 unmarried Creeping Dying.
They’ve since carried out the Diamond Head observe are living 791 occasions, in step with setlist wiki setlist.fm.
Tatler has since mentioned that the royalties and see that got here from Metallica masking Am I Evil? helped to stay Diamond Head afloat.
“I feel if Metallica hadn’t lined Diamond Head […] I can have regarded in different places for employment,” the guitarist informed Steel Pilgrim in 2022 (by means of Blabbermouth).
“I feel it might had been more difficult to stay Diamond Head going with out that creation to their fanbase. ’Motive that document offered thousands and thousands of copies – variations of Am I Evil? have offered thousands and thousands of copies thru Metallica – and so, such a lot of extra other people know Diamond Head due to Lars and co.
“And it can be that a large number of the alternatives that we get now would now not be there with out that Metallica connection. So I’m endlessly thankful.”
Metallica famously lined Am I Evil? with the opposite bands in thrash steel’s Giant 4 – Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax – in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 2010.
The band are nonetheless enjoying throughout Europe as a part of their 2024 excursion and can headline Hellfest in Clisson, France, on Saturday (June 29).
For Metallica’s complete are living time table this yr, see beneath.
Diamond Head launched their newest album, Lightning To The International locations 2020, 4 years in the past. The album is a re-recording of the band’s 1980 debut, together with Am I Evil?, and includes a duvet of Metallica’s No Regret as an advantage observe.
Jun 29: Clisson Hellfest, France
Jul 05: Warsaw PGE Narodowy, Poland
Jul 07: Warsaw PGE Narodowy, Poland
Jul 12: Madrid Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano, Spain
Jul 14: Madrid Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano, Spain
Aug 02: Foxborough Gillette Stadium, MA, USA
Aug 04: Foxborough Gillette Stadium, MA, USA
Aug 09: Chicago Soldier Box, IL, USA
Aug 11: Chicago Soldier Box, IL, USA
Aug 16: Minneapolis US Financial institution Stadium, MN, USA
Aug 18: Minneapolis US Financial institution Stadium, MN, USA
Aug 23: Edmonton Commonwealth Stadium, Canada
Aug 25: Edmonton Commonwealth Stadium, Canada
Aug 30: Seattle Lumen Box, WA, USA
Sep 01: Seattle Lumen Box, WA, USA
Sep 20: Mexico Town Foro Sol, Mexico
Sep 22: Mexico Town Foro Sol, Mexico
Sep 27: Mexico Town Foro Sol, Mexico
Sep 29: Mexico Town Foro Sol, Mexico
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