Diamond Rexx Discography of CDs

In the '80s and early '90s, Diamond Rexx was very much a party band -- if you craved the sort of decadent, trashy, sleazy fun that Mötley Crüe and Kiss were famous for, Nasti Habits' band was worth checking out. But when Habits decided to form a new Diamond Rexx lineup in 2001, the Chicagoan realized that some changes were in order. The days when MTV ...

Diamond Rexx albums Diamond Rexx's Land of the Damned is an energetic blast of ragged, Judas Priest-esque metal that also contains elements of L.A. glam and N.Y.C.-style trash rock. Though lead vocalist Nasti Habits seems to favor a melodic growling in the early David Johansen/Handsome Dick Manitoba vein over actual singing, he's the perfect focal point for his band's drunken steamroller sound. At times sounding like an even more ...

Diamond Rexx music CDs Diamond Rexx's reunion was among the more unlikely reunions of the early 2000s -- after all, '80s-style hair bands went out of vogue when Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and their grunge colleagues exploded commercially in 1992 and 1993. Plus, Diamond Rexx was never a huge name in heavy metal/hard rock; the Chicago band only had a small following. So how great would the demand for new albums ...

Diamond Rexx discography Track Listing of songs: Someone; In Your Face; Hate; Hypnotized; Preacher; The Evil; Help Me; Stop At Nothing; Rainy Daze; Sick; Ace Of Spades;

Diamond Rexx songs Track Listing of songs: Cold and Sorry; Crazy From Love; Golden Gates; Put em on Ice; Lady in My Pocket; Cat House;

Diamond Rexx CD discography In the '80s and early '90s, Diamond Rexx was very much a party band -- if you craved the sort of decadent, trashy, sleazy fun that Mötley Crüe and Kiss were famous for, Nasti Habits' band was worth checking out. But when Habits decided to form a new Diamond Rexx lineup in 2001, the Chicagoan realized that some changes were in order. The days when MTV ...

Diamond Rexx albums In the late '80s and early '90s, the small, Chicago-based Red Light Records set out to document the Windy City hard rock/heavy metal scene with releases by Joker and Diamond Rexx (who had previously recorded for Island). Led by the outrageous, sneering Nasti Habits, the obscure Rexx ...

Diamond Rexx CD discography This compilation of third- and fourth-rate metal never-weres, should have been called "Heavy Metal Washouts". Unless the listener is so deeply devoted to the genre that any nonsense released under its rubric is considered worth owning, it would be very difficult indeed to find a single buyer for this stuff. When bad hair metal power ballads like Enuff Z'nuff's "New Thing" is juxtaposed against the Bulletboys' "Smooth Up" and the ingeniously named Misfits wannabe anthem "Triple Sixs" by Soil, you simply have no real direction or even evidence for presentation. Metal circles are notoriously segregated: most speed metal fans hate death metal; black metal fans hate tech-metal, doom metal heads are put off by virtually anything else, etc. Most of what's here doesn't even rate classifying. The only exceptions are Ashes of Your Enemy whose "Surrender" is easily the best cut in the bunch, followed by Single Bullet Theory's "Murder Machines." In fact, they are the only two redeeming things here. Heavy Metal Warriors should be avoided at all costs. ~ Thom Jurek