Digital Dictator

Digital Dictator
Cover art by Guy Aitchison
Studio album by Vicious Rumors
Released	February 9, 1988 (1988-02-09)
Recorded	1987 at Prairie Sun Recording Studios in Cotati, California
Genre	Heavy metal
Length	38:57
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); a remastered edition was reissued in 2009. The is the first Vicious Rumors album to feature vocalist Carl Albert, who would stay in the band until his death in 1995.

Track listing

"Western Front" (side one)

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Replicant" (Instrumental)	Dave Starr, Mark McGee	1:04
2.	"Digital Dictator"	Starr, Geoff Thorpe, McGee, Carl Albert	3:17
3.	"Minute to Kill"	Thorpe, Albert, Larry Howe	3:34
4.	"Towns on Fire"	Thorpe, Howe	4:23
5.	"Lady Took a Chance"	Thorpe	6:11

"Eastern Front" (side two)

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"Worlds and Machines"	Thorpe, McGee, Howe	5:30
7.	"The Crest"	Thorpe	2:56
8.	"R.L.H."	Thorpe, Starr, McGee	4:00
9.	"Condemned"	Thorpe, Albert, McGee	3:53
10.	"Out of the Shadows"	Thorpe, McGee, Albert	4:09
Total length:			38:57

Personnel

Vicious Rumors

• Carl Albert – lead vocals
• Geoff Thorpe – guitar, background vocals
• Mark McGee – guitar, mandolin, background vocals
• Dave Starr – bass, background vocals
• Larry Howe – drums, background vocals

Additional musicians

• John Lavaysse – background vocals
• Dino Alden – background vocals, assistant engineer

Production

• Dave Starr – mixing
• Dino Alden – engineer (assistant)
• Guy Aitchison – cover art
• Steve Pollutro – logo
• George Horn – mastering at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California
• Rocky Ball – photography
• Geoff Thorpe – cover concept, mixing, producer
• Mark McGee – mixing
• Doug Troxell – photography, production manager, sleeve design
• Steve Fontano – producer, engineer, mixing
• Rick Likong – photography
• John Umphrey – photography
• Stephanie Ball – photography
• Tim Gennert – remastering (reissue)