Band: Diamond Head
Song: “The Messenger”
Director: Name
Album: Live and Electric
Release Date: July 11th, 2025
Label: Silver Lining Music
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Founding lead guitarist Brian Tatler remarks:
“‘The Messenger (Live At The Cambridge Corn Exchange)’ is a very powerful track. It started life in my head when I was watching Cradle of Filth live on the 70,000 Tons Of Metal cruise. They played a song with a fantastic groove which reminded me of ‘Tobacco Road’ by The Nashville Teens. I thought to myself, ‘that’s brilliant, I will try and come up with a riff for a groove like that,’ and so I came up with ‘The Messenger’ riff – everything comes from somewhere. We recorded it for the album The Coffin Train and played it live on the 2022 UK and European tour opening for Saxon. It always sounded good live, even next to classic Diamond Head songs like ‘The Prince’ and ‘In The Heat Of The Night’. We recorded all the shows on the UK tour and thought this version at Cambridge was the mightiest. Heavy Metaaaaaaaal!”