Diamond Head - Death & Progress (1993) [Reissue 2001]
EAC | FLAC+CUE+LOG > 295 MB | Full Scans > 193 MB | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps > 90 MB
Hard Rock / Heavy Metal | 39:42 mins | Label: Castle/Sanctuary | Cat. # CMR CD241
EAC | FLAC+CUE+LOG > 295 MB | Full Scans > 193 MB | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps > 90 MB
Hard Rock / Heavy Metal | 39:42 mins | Label: Castle/Sanctuary | Cat. # CMR CD241
Diamond Head are an English heavy metal band formed in 1976 in Stourbridge, England. The band is recognised as one of the leading members of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and is acknowledged by later bands like Metallica and Megadeth as an important early influence. Death and Progress is a four full-lenght recording by Diamond Head and it was originally released under reactivated Bronze Records on June 1st 1993. This was Diamond Head's first album since Canterbury, released 10 years earlier. It was mixed by Andrew Scarth, who had previously worked for bands such as Bad Company and Foreigner. The album had a much cleaner and more polished sound than their previous three albums and featured two special guests, Tony Iommi, of Black Sabbath, and Dave Mustaine, of Megadeth, the latter also enlisting the help of his own producer Max Norman.
Despite showing great promise with their awesome debut Lightning to the Nations, New Wave of British Heavy Metal stars Diamond Head apparently "lost the plot", as they say in England, changing direction and churning out a couple of mediocre albums before fading into apparent obscurity. Luckily, their sound influenced many bands and their legend kept increasing after the band had broken up, eventually promting them into a reunion. 1993's Death & Progress seems to fulfill what Diamond Head failed to achieve ten years earlier: Combine their heavy metal roots and aggression with a more concise, if slightly commercial style of songwriting, resulting in what can be loosely defined as a melodic hard rock album. Nowhere is this new-found balance more apparent and effective than in "Starcrossed (Lovers of the Night)," which opens with a gorgeous melody before climaxing in a virtual thrash-out. Other stand-outs include "Damnation Street" and "Truckin'," while "Run" is simply a phenomenal hard rock single and serves as a great conclusion (?) to an interesting career.
– Review by Eduardo Rivadavia, allmusic.com
Tracklist:
01. Starcrossed (Lovers Of The Night)
02. Truckin'
03. Calling Your Name (The Light)
04. I Can't Help Myself
05. Paradise
06. Dust
07. Run
08. Wild On The Streets
09. Damnation Street
10. Home
Produced by Andrew Scarth.
More info @ Wikipedia
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Diamond Head / Death & Progress
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EAC extraction logfile from 5. July 2010, 22:40
Diamond Head / Death & Progress
Used drive : Optiarc DVD-ROM DDU1675S Adapter: 2 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\Monkey's Audio\MAC.exe
Additional command line options : -8 -V %s
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 4:27.49 | 0 | 20073
2 | 4:27.49 | 3:05.16 | 20074 | 33964
3 | 7:32.65 | 4:06.35 | 33965 | 52449
4 | 11:39.25 | 3:37.03 | 52450 | 68727
5 | 15:16.28 | 3:36.72 | 68728 | 84999
6 | 18:53.25 | 4:18.39 | 85000 | 104388
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