Description

From Birmingham, the home of heavy metal, Quartz have a long and established pedigree in the music business spanning over five decades. Their debut album in 1977 (released on Jet Records) was produced by Tony Iommi. During this time the band gigged extensively honing their craft having major support slots with the likes of AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Rush, UFO and others. The Quartz back catalogue is quite extensive, Listen to Satan’s Serenade EP, Stand Up And Fight and Against All Odds LP’s if you are not already familiar with them. They have released two further studio albums Fear No Evil and On The Edge Of No Tomorrow, both exceptional albums. Then in April of 2025 Quartz returned with the self released Six album. The sixth studio album features twelve tracks, with two of them being written by the late Geoff Nichols (RIP), who also played with both Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne. The current line-up still boasts three of the original five founding members in Malcolm Cope (drums), Mick Hopkins (lead guitar) and Dek Arnold (bass) plus they are now rejoined by Geoff Bate on vocals who sang on Against All Odds that was released back in 1983. If you havent heard Quartz before then its time to discover this band now

Track list:
1. Insomnia
2. Come Hell Or High Water
3. Give It All Youve Got
4. Burn In Hell
5. Fires Of Hell
6. Broken Promises
7. Wake Up
8. Im A Survivor
9. The Last Time
10. Bad Luck
11. Cerberus
12. Knights Of Darkness