DIAMOND HEAD - Japanese Reissues Detailed
October 6, 2008, 15 years ago
NWOBHM legends DIAMOND HEAD have issued the following update:
"Universal have re-released both the Borrowed Time and Canterbury albums as part of a special NWOBHM Hall Of Fame collection series.The albums are faithful carded reproductions of the original album sleeves and feature bonus tracks, all delivered on Super High Material CDs. Borrowed Time comes in a gatefold sleeve with miniature poster and lyric sheet. Bonus tracks include the Four Cuts EP; 'Trick Or Treat', 'Dead Reckoning' and 'Shoot Out The Lights', and from the Heat Of The Night release; 'In The Heat Of The Night', 'Play It Loud' (live), 'Sweet & Innocent' (live) and the 1982 Tommy Vance interview with Sean Harris and Colin Kimberley.
Canterbury comes with reproductions of the original inserts supplied with the vinyl album, lyric sheet, and bonus tracks of the 12" extended version of 'Makin' Music', 'Sucking My Love' (live at Reading) and the Andy Peebles interview.
For the collector - there are seven albums in this series including, JOHN SYKES, QUARTZ, FIST, WHITE SPIRIT and GARY MOORE. If they are bought together they come in a very nice box set designed around the Borrowed Time cover."
