℗ 2023 Frontiers Records
| Released | April 14, 2023 |
| Duration | 41m 10s |
| Record Label | Frontiers Records s.r.l. |
| Catalogue No. | FRD1312 |
| Genre | Rock (Hard Rock) |
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1.1
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You Betray
L.A. Guns |
3:30 | |||
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1.2
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Wrong About You
L.A. Guns |
3:21 | |||
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1.3
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Diamonds
L.A. Guns |
5:19 | |||
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1.4
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Babylon
L.A. Guns |
3:09 | |||
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1.5
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Shame
L.A. Guns |
3:49 | |||
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1.6
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Shattered Glass
L.A. Guns |
3:18 | |||
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1.7
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Gonna Lose
L.A. Guns |
4:42 | |||
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1.8
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Got It Wrong
L.A. Guns |
3:31 | |||
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1.9
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Lowlife
L.A. Guns |
2:44 | |||
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1.10
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Crying
L.A. Guns |
3:16 | |||
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1.11
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Like a Drug
L.A. Guns |
4:31 |
L.A. Guns have released their latest studio album, Black Diamonds. Produced by founding member and guitarist Tracii Guns, Black Diamonds is a tour-de-force of rock 'n roll that fans have come to expect from the long-running hard rockers.
Written and recorded over the course of 2022, Black Diamond" sees Tracii Guns, Phil Lewis, and company continuing on the same successful and inspiring sonic journey that they've been taking on their most recent albums, Checkered Past, The Devil You Know, and The Missing Peace.
The band doesn't shy away from flexing their hard rock influences as they always have, but also incorporates more introspective acoustic tracks reflective of their classic rock influences from the '70s. This makes for a potent and highly listenable cocktail of an album in Black Diamonds. Since their self-titled debut in 1988 to their widely praised recent suite of "comeback" albums, L.A. GUNS, led by Tracii Guns and Phil Lewis, have always delivered solid rock ‘n roll to their fans. Since core members Tracii and Phil reunited under the banner of L.A. Guns in 2017, a rekindling of the band's creative energy has been continuing unabated over the course of, now, four studio albums.
Black Diamonds shows no signs of this renaissance slowing down… L.A. Guns never looked like the pretty poster boys that so many of their peers did, but more the band that you would be terrified to bump into in an alley as they would likely be carrying switchblades and ready for a fight.
48 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Frontiers Records s.r.l. Studio Masters
Tracks 1, 4, 5, 7 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 48 kHz / 24-bit Tracks 6, 8, 10, 11 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM
Tracks 1, 4, 5, 7 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 48 kHz / 24-bit Tracks 6, 8, 10, 11 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.75 -2.69 to -0.20 | -12.87 -13.91 to -11.27 | -9.86 -10.40 to -8.70 | 8 7 to 9 | |
| 1 | You Betray | -1.85 | -13.12 | -10.3 | 7 |
| 2 | Wrong About You | -0.22 | -12.69 | -10.1 | 9 |
| 3 | Diamonds | -0.28 | -13.50 | -10.2 | 8 |
| 4 | Babylon | -1.08 | -13.14 | -10.1 | 8 |
| 5 | Shame | -2.69 | -13.91 | -10.4 | 7 |
| 6 | Shattered Glass | -0.20 | -13.59 | -10.4 | 9 |
| 7 | Gonna Lose | -0.20 | -12.81 | -9.7 | 9 |
| 8 | Got It Wrong | -0.20 | -12.43 | -9.6 | 8 |
| 9 | Lowlife | -0.20 | -11.27 | -8.7 | 7 |
| 10 | Crying | -1.13 | -12.85 | -9.4 | 8 |
| 11 | Like a Drug | -0.20 | -12.30 | -9.6 | 8 |