METALLICA Joined By DIAMOND HEAD’s BRIAN TATLER For Live Cover Of “Am I Evil?”

Metallica initially launched their cowl of Diamond Head‘s “Am I Evil?” as a B-side to the “Creeping Dying” single in 1984. Regardless of being a staple in Metallica‘s dwell set all through the ’80s and ’90s, the music has solely been performed dwell 13 instances since 2011 (with the final efficiency coming in 2018).

So it was a reasonably large deal that Metallica broke out the duvet on the Tons of Rock Pageant in Oslo, Norway, however a fair greater deal that Diamond Head guitarist (and co-writer of the unique) Brian Tatler joined them on stage for the duvet! Test it out above full with a really completely happy wanting Tatler, who was already on the pageant since he joined fellow Tons of Rock performers Saxon in 2023.

In a 2022 interview with Steel Pilgrim, Tatler mentioned he would not assume he’d have a profession if Metallica did not cowl “Am I Evil?”

“I feel if Metallica hadn’t coated Diamond Head — the primary cowl was ’84 once they did ‘Am I Evil?’ on the B-side of ‘Creeping Dying’ — so I feel in the event that they hadn’t, I’ll have regarded elsewhere for employment. I feel it could have been tougher to maintain Diamond Head going with out that introduction to their fanbase. ‘Trigger that document bought thousands and thousands of copies — variations of ‘Am I Evil?’ have bought thousands and thousands of copies by way of Metallica — and so so many extra individuals know Diamond Head due to Lars [Ulrich] and Co.

“And it might be that quite a lot of the alternatives that we get now wouldn’t be there with out that Metallica connection. So I am eternally grateful. Clearly, myself and Sean [Harris, original Diamond Head singer] nonetheless get writers’ royalties, besides, I simply assume it is helped Diamond Head as a reputation and a model to get on an increasing number of alternatives — get festivals and helps. As a result of they hyperlink it with Metallica; they assume, ‘Okay, nicely, you are probably tapping into an enormous market.'”