Angry Machines
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| Studio album by Dio | ||||
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Publication |
1996 |
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| Label (s) | Mayhem Records | |||
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Format (s) |
CD, cassette |
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Title (number) |
10 (+1) |
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running time |
44 min 14 s |
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Ronnie James Dio |
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Studio (s) |
Total Access, Redondo Beach, California, USA |
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Angry Machines is the seventh studio album by the US band Dio and was released in 1996.
Creation of the album
After Ronnie James Dio released Strange Highways in 1993, he toured for three years. In 1995, towards the end of the Strange Highways tour, he was working on a new studio album at the same time.
Angry Machines was included in the Total Access Studio in California from August 1995 to March 1996. In August 1995 Jerry Best was hired by Freak of Nature , who already played as a warm-up band during the European tour of the Strange Highways Tour, for a 5-day tour through South America. It was also said that he would be the bass player on the upcoming album. But in early 1996 he was replaced by Jeff Pilson, who came back for the studio recordings. According to Ronnie James Dios, which he made in his biography, God Hates Heavy Metal was the only song that Jerry Best can also be heard on. The album was personally produced by Ronnie James Dio.
In the summer of 1996, the official Dio fan club published the track list by circular. It featured the song God Hates Heavy Metal , but the title was only released as a bonus track for the Japanese version. The title Hunter of the Heart was also not mentioned. The publication was initially dated April 1996, but after problems it was not published until September 23, 1996 for Europe and Japan and October 15, 1996 for the USA.
Track list
- Institutional Man - 5:09
- Don't Tell the Kids - 4:18
- Black - 3:10
- Hunter of the Heart - 4:13
- Stay Out of My Mind - 7:11 am
- Big Sister - 5:35
- Double Monday - 2:55
- Golden Rules - 4:54
- Dying in America - 4:38
- God Hates Heavy Metal - 3:49 (bonus title in the Japanese version)
- This Is Your Life - 3:24
Music style and fan disapproval
Angry Machines is rated as the worst Dio album after Strange Highways by many fans. Musically it goes one step further than its predecessor and has a much harder way of playing (with the exception of This Is Your Life , which is a ballad).
Trivia
- The song Stay Out of My Mind is the only thing that has ever been written by Dio in the band history without Ronnie James Dio, as it was originally planned for a solo project by bassist Jeff Pilson , but was later taken over by Dio.
- The album is dedicated to Reg Walters.
- The band photo printed in the booklet shows the members without Jeff Pilson. That was because Pilson was busy with a solo project at the time, but the band insisted that he be photographed with them. The record company didn't want to wait, so the picture was taken without Pilson.
- According to Dios, the lyrics arose from topics that he had picked up from daily newspapers.
- There are several demo versions of this album that differ greatly from the final versions. For example, the laughter of children was added to Don't Tell the Kids and the final part was left out and This Is Your Life was accompanied by a violin instead of a piano. The bass intro from Hunter of the Heart is also missing and has been replaced by a short guitar play by Grijalva.