Four Cuts

I usually rate Diamond Head stuff high, since i think a lot of what they did were excellent. This EP is actually quite good. And yet... It only contains one "new" track. Diamond Head often recorded and released there songs more than one time. An example is Shoot out the lights that were released on a 7" in 1980 and rereleased on this EP, just without guitar solos and a different sound. The A-side of this EP contains two song, Call Me and Trick or Treat and they are songs that I just never cared about. They were released on the album Borrowed Time too.
The only track that is unique for this EP is Dead Reckoning, but it also one of their very best tracks ever. My guess is that Metallica's Seek and Destroy is inspired by this track. The lyrics is alike, the riffs and the sound just remind me of Seek and Destroy.
The A-side of this album is the weakest with two tracks that are not as heavy metal as the others. Call Me and Trick or Treat are just not that catchy as Dead Reckoning and Shoot out the Lights that are to be found on the B-side. The sound in my opinion is quite bad. I don't know if it's lousy production or what but the sound is just bad. Dead Reckoning sadly has some hiss on the guitar sound. Call Me and Trick or Treat just sound better on Borrowed Time (album). All in all it's a good EP since I can bear to hear all the songs.