Los Angeles, California: They may not have released a new studio album in a while (ummm.... it's actually been 30 years!), but few who’ve seen southern sleaze-metal veterans Dangerous Toys playing out recently would ever doubt that they remain one of the most exhilarating live bands on the circuit - albeit one that rations its appearances to just a handful at most a year!
They’ve already played a few select shows this year, and there’s still a couple to come, at the Rochester Opera House in Rochester NY on November 14, and the Met Cafe in Pawtucket RI the following evening.
And next spring, they’re playing the Monsters of Rock cruise!
Amidst so much activity, and with the band’s long, long, so-bloody-loooong awaited fifth album still in a state of gestation, December 12 will see the release of Demolition - on CD, vinyl and limited edition cassette!
A truly blockbusting compilation, Demolition features 10 tracks, all previously unreleased and recorded during the hiatus between the band’s second and third albums, 1991’s Hellacious Acres and 1994’s Pissed, as they continued refining their debut album’s unique concoction of Southern rock and driving metal.
Hand selected by the band, “these old songs… obviously didn’t make the cut when choosing songs for official release,” the band remark in the liner notes. All will be completely new to all the ears that hear them.
But while it’s easy to refer to the 10 tracks as “rejects” (even the Toys do so!), it’s also worth remembering the band wrote at least 70 new songs during this period, with most of them being recorded within days of the original idea being brought to the jam room, probably scribbled on a piece of scrap paper, or loosely worked out on a cassette tape. And so the recordings piled up and when it came time to piece Pissed together…
Quality had nothing to do with it!. There was just too many songs to release. Until now!
The countdown to Demolition begins today, with the first single from the album, “Rock Shock Cowboy,” coming at you - as guitarist Scott Dalhover puts it - “Straight out of the Way Back Machine from deep within the Dangerous Toys Archives.
SINGLE: https://orcd.co/dangeroustoys_rockshockcowboy
“It's a snapshot of what was going on in the D.T. song writing process at that point in time.” And it’s a slice of seriously anthemic metal balladeering….
Well, compared to what you were probably expecting, it’s balladeering. But it’s also a mighty slab of exactly what you’ve been waiting for. Primo Dangerous Toys!
CD/VINYL/CASS: https://cleorecs.com/search?q=dangerous+toys+demolition
DIGITAL: https://orcd.co/dangeroustoys_demolition
Rock Shock Cowboy
Come Out Swinging
Rattle My Cage
Rhapsody in Barbed Wire
One On One Live
Burning Bridges
Your Sister
Backstreet Girl
Shot To Hell
SNAFU
