Diamond Lights
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Diamond Lights is an EP
by heavy metal
band Diamond Head
and was released in 1981. It was a double A-side with Diamond Lights and We Won't Be Back, and was only available on 12". The two A-sides and the B-side I Don't Got eventually ended up on the re-released version of Diamond Head's 1980 debut Lightning to the Nations
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Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
by heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
band Diamond Head
Diamond Head (band)
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.-Early history:Formed by...
and was released in 1981. It was a double A-side with Diamond Lights and We Won't Be Back, and was only available on 12". The two A-sides and the B-side I Don't Got eventually ended up on the re-released version of Diamond Head's 1980 debut Lightning to the Nations
Lightning to the Nations
Lightning to the Nations is the debut album by heavy metal band Diamond Head. The album was recorded in 1979 and released in 1980 through their own label Happy Face Records, due to lack of interest from major labels and the band feeling that they needed to get the ball rolling as other bands from...
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