Lightning To The Nations
by Diamond Head

Album
Lightning To The Nations by Diamond Head
Year: 1980
Release date: 1980-10-03
Overall rank: 4,069th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 94 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1980 (75th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (589th)
Award Best albums of all time (4,069th)

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Lightning To The Nations is ranked as the best album by Diamond Head.

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Lightning To The Nations track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Lightning To The Nations
Average Rating: 78 (20 votes)Comments: View 0
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The Prince
Average Rating: 78 (18 votes)Comments: View 0
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Sucking My Love
Average Rating: 81 (18 votes)Comments: View 0
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Am I Evil?
Average Rating: 85 (25 votes)Comments: View 0
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Sweet And Innocent
Average Rating: 79 (16 votes)Comments: View 0
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It's Electric
Average Rating: 79 (17 votes)Comments: View 0
7.
Helpless
Average Rating: 79 (16 votes)Comments: View 0

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Lightning To The Nations rankings

Lightning To The Nations rankings summary
Overall rank: 4,069th | 1980s rank: 589th | 1980 rank: 75th  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 94 votes)
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70/100
 !		04/04/2026 19:33 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  15,84570/100
 
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 !		03/30/2026 08:55 Leginlists  Ratings distribution  3,84283/100
 
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 !		01/25/2026 21:37 cicadelic  Ratings distribution  14,06473/100

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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.4/100, a mean average of 73.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.2.


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Lightning To The Nations forum mentions

This album has been referenced 16 times on the forums, Explore the wider forum discussion to see what members have said about it.
From Jboy56 01/23/2024 15:38 in What album are you listening to right now?
“What album are you listening to right now?”
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From Mercury 07/23/2022 17:05 in Greatest Metal According to Gowi/LedZep/Repo/Rocky and I!
“A Couple more pre-thrash classics leading up to the year 1983 (at which point I will just be focusing on Thrash albums and not so much stuff falling outside that genre)... ----------------------- Realities of War EP by Discharge/March 29th, 1980 (Skipped this one date-of-release-wise… I will go…”
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From dihansse 11/17/2021 20:49 in Rank 'Em: The Beach Boys
“After really thinking about it, a top ten just doesn't make sense for 1980. I just have to mention a few more crucial albums or or I'd risk just being flat out negligent. So Counting Down from 15, I give you... 15. Ok? Who's idea in marketing was this? There was just no way this was going to go…”
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Lightning To The Nations comments

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From 01/02/2022 22:42 | #278432 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Annoyed it took me so long to finally give this one a listen. Can see why Metallica loved this
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One of the best metal albums of all time.
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Metallica boys like this (Edited)
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