Black Diamond Heavies

Stripping the deep blues to its body and operating the music via a big stack of amps while shaking it right into a cold perspire, the Black color Diamond Heavies certainly are a strap from East Nashville, TN, who show that with regards to sonic effect and soulful energy, size doesn’t matter much whatsoever. The Dark Diamond Heavies had been formed by key pad guy and vocalist John Wesley Myers, Tag “Porkchop” Holder on acoustic guitar and harmonica, and drummer Vehicle Campbell. Myers once was a member from the feral blues-punk combo the Immortal Lee Region Killers, while Campbell experienced kept time using the Invisibles as well as the Rum Circus. The Dark Diamond Heavies began gigging in 2004 and self-released an EP known as You Damn Best in 2005. The record and specifically the BDHs’ wildly frantic concert events received them a rabid lover following, specifically in the South, however in early 2006 Holder amicably remaining the band, unsatisfied using the rigors of existence on the highway. Myers and Campbell opted not merely to keep without Holder, but never to replace him; stripped right down to a two-piece, the band’s music became a lot more natural and intense than before, and in the summertime of 2006 the music group scored an archive deal with mentioned garage area punk label Alive Information. The Dark Diamond Heavies’ 1st full-length recording, Every Damn Period, premiered in early 2007.