Los Angeles, California: Southern sleaze-metal veterans Dangerous Toys might not have released a new album in 30 years (although they promise there’s one on its way), but that hasn’t stopped them from establishing themselves among the most ferocious live bands on the circuit right now, while an avid following remains as rabid as ever.
Time, then, to break the silence with Demolition, a brain melting compilation of 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 - arguably, the peak of the original band’s activities.
It wasn’t easy selecting the contents. The band had some 70 new songs to choose from as they pieced together Pissed, almost everyone banged down on tape within days of the original idea being brought into the jam rom.
“These old songs… obviously didn’t make the cut when choosing songs for official release,” the band remark in the liner notes, but that has nothing to do with their quality - each one is a solid blast of Dangerous Toys living up to their name. There just wasn’t room on the album to fit them all in.
The countdown to Demolition’s December 12 release (on CD, vinyl and cassette) is already underway. But today sees the release of the second single from the album(following the almighty “Rock Shock Cowboy” a few weeks back), and “Rattle My Cage” comes storming out to make you wonder, once again, how it didn’t make the final album.
“‘Rattle My Cage’ is our punk rock, metalhead anthem of defiance against all the forces that get in our way,” says bassist Mike Watson, “Fuck around and find out!”
SINGLE: https://orcd.co/dangeroustoys_rattlemycage
“It's a snapshot of what was going on in the D.T. song writing process at that point in time,” says guitarist Scott Dalhover “We were having a great time at rehearsals. Just throwing one idea after another to see what song would come out and stick the landing.”
And from frontman Jason McMaster, “We are excited to see how these tunes translate to our fans. These were telling of where our heads were in the world at the time. Defiant, rebellious, but also looking for fun.”
They certainly found it.
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DIGITAL: https://orcd.co/dangeroustoys_demolition
Track listing
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
