Dangerous Toys – Demolition 2025

Texas rockers DANGEROUS TOYS, who achieved a short-but-sweet burst of success in the midst of the late 1980s glam metal boom, will release “Demolition” on December 12 on CD, vinyl and limited-edition cassette via Cleopatra Records.

They may not have released a new studio album in 30 years, but few who’ve seen 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 in 2025, and there’s still a couple to come, at the Rochester Opera House in Rochester, New Hampshire on November 14, and the Met Cafe in Pawtucket, Rhode Island the following evening. And next spring, they’re playing the Monsters Of Rock cruise.

Amidst so much activity, and with the band’s long-awaited fifth album still in a state of gestation, fans can look forward to the arrival of “Demolition”, which 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 DANGEROUS TOYS, “these old songs… obviously didn’t make the cut when choosing songs for official release,” the band remarks 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. It’s a snapshot of what was going on in the D.T. songwriting process at that point in time.”

01. Rock Shock Cowboy
02. Come Out Swinging
03. Rattle My Cage
04. Rhapsody in Barbed Wire
05. One On One Live
06. Burning Bridges
07. Your Sister
08. Backstreet Girl
09. Shot To Hell
10. SNAFU