Artist: Diamond Head
Author: Brian Tatler/Sean Harris
Label: MCA
Year: 1980
On self-released debut album Lightning To The Nations. Opening with an uncredited piece of Mars from Holst's The Planets (see there).
Covers:
Metallica [on the Creeping Death EP]
Celtic Frost [same riff in Dethroned Emperor]
Lars Ulrich about this track: "The heaviest riff I ever heard. We had to cover it because we couldn't find a heavier one." In '89 Metallica also covered The Prince from Lightning To The Nations. See also: Helpless and It's Electric.
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