Digital Dictator

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Digital Dictator
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Cover art by Guy Aitchison
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 9, 1988 (1988-02-09)
Recorded1987 at Prairie Sun Recording Studios in Cotati, California
Genre Heavy metal [1]
Length38:57
Label Shrapnel
Producer Steve Fontano, Geoff Thorpe
Vicious Rumors chronology
Soldiers of the Night
(1985)
Digital Dictator
(1988)
Vicious Rumors
(1990)

Digital Dictator is the second studio album by the American heavy metal band Vicious Rumors, released in 1988 through Shrapnel Records (United States) and Roadrunner Records (Europe); [2] a remastered edition was reissued in 2009.

Contents

Track listing

"Western Front" (side one)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Replicant" (Instrumental)Dave Starr, Mark McGee1:04
2."Digital Dictator"Starr, Geoff Thorpe, McGee, Carl Albert3:17
3."Minute to Kill"Thorpe, Albert, Larry Howe3:34
4."Towns on Fire"Thorpe, Howe4:23
5."Lady Took a Chance"Thorpe6:11
"Eastern Front" (side two)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
6."Worlds and Machines"Thorpe, McGee, Howe5:30
7."The Crest"Thorpe2:56
8."R.L.H."Thorpe, Starr, McGee4:00
9."Condemned"Thorpe, Albert, McGee3:53
10."Out of the Shadows"Thorpe, McGee, Albert4:09
Total length:38:57

Personnel

Vicious Rumors
Additional musicians
Production

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