Album Review: Diamond head, "Death and Progress"

Death And Progress is the album that DIAMOND HEAD should have made to follow up their excellent Living On Borrowed Time debut. Whether or not the hyperbole that Lars Ulrich began is fundamental to their return is of no consequence as Diamond Head have to be judged by the material here. And the judge gives a thumbs up.

Sean Harris's ever evocative vocals roller-coast through emotions backed by Brian Tatler's intuitive guitar work. "Star Crossed (Lovers of the Night)", "Calling Your Name," and "I Can't Help Myself" are each cut from such fine metals, it makes one wonder how they let it all slip away the first time around.

Joe Mackett
Riff Raff
July 1993

Revenge...?

Riff Raff was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 1980s and 1990s. Edited by the ultimate music biz insider, Mark Crampton, and employing such talents as Mark Blake, Jerry Ewing, Mike Harris, Paul Smith, Chris Collingwood, Alan McCrorie, Simon Robinson, Lyn Guy, Anna Marx, Nick Douglas, Marion Garden, Peter "Grunty" Grant, Joe "The Crow" Mackett, Billy "The Kluck" Kulke, and, lastest and mostest, the incredible Liddell Brothers, Mark (a.k.a. "El Perro") and Colin (a.k.a. "Der Fly"). Unfortunately, Riff Raff was just too R n' R for its own good. A genuine working class rock mag, written, edited, and translated into 16 European languages in a drug-N-Jack-D-fuelled haze, often on the back of motorbikes, with spell checking by our staff of attentive rock bimbos (chosen purely for their blondeness and big knockers), it soon fell behind more trainspotterly, nerdish, and politically correct publications like Q, Kerrang, Mojo, Metal Hammer, and Horse & Hound. This website is an archive and kind of shrine dedicated to the writing of its greatest writers, some of whom, luckily for the Rock Kosmos, still continue to write about music. This is the REVENGE of Riff Raff...Rock on!