Episode 11 - 1980 #1 (ft. Diamond Head, Whitesnake & Motorhead)

<p>40 years on - give or take a few months - from the dawn of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, the boys of the Enter Sadmen podcast choose three of the most notable albums released during the the genre-defining year of 1980. One of them is Lightning To The Nations from Diamond Head - the band acknowledged as the inspiration behind the birth of Metallica.</p> <p>One is Ace Of Spades, the classic fourth album from Motorhead, the band that essentially set the blueprint for the thrash bands who would emerge in the early 80s.</p> <p>And if Deep Purple are the grandfathers of rock, then the laws of lineage demand that the final piece in this week's episode jigsaw is a band we must then view as one of its fathers - the David Coverdale-fronted Whitesnake and Ready An' Willing.</p>