Angry Machines

Angry Machines
Studio album by Dio
Released	October 15, 1996
Recorded	Total Access, Redondo Beach, California, USA
Genre	Heavy metal
Length	44:14
Label	Mayhem Records
Producer	Ronnie James Dio
Dio chronology
Strange Highways (1994) Angry Machines (1996) Inferno: Last in Live (1998)

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Angry Machines is the seventh studio album from the heavy metal band Dio. It was released first in Japan on October 4th, 1996 by Mercury Music Entertainment with 11 tracks and in the USA on October 15, 1996 on Mayhem Records but with only 10 tracks. It was the last studio album to feature original drummer Vinny Appice.

Track listing

• All lyrics and melodies by Ronnie James Dio

1. "Institutional Man" (Dio, Tracy Grijalva, Vinny Appice) – 5:00
2. "Don't Tell the Kids" (Dio, Grijalva, Appice) – 4:13
3. "Black" (Dio, Grijalva, Appice, Jeff Pilson) – 3:06
4. "Hunter of the Heart" (Dio, Grijalva, Appice) – 4:06
5. "Stay Out of My Mind" (Dio, Pilson) – 6:57
6. "Big Sister" (Dio, Grijalva, Appice, Pilson) – 5:27
7. "Double Monday" (Dio, Grijalva, Appice) – 2:50
8. "Golden Rules" (Dio, Grijalva, Appice) – 4:46
9. "Dying in America" (Dio, Grijalva, Appice, Pilson) – 4:31
10. "God Hates Heavy Metal" (Bonus Track) – 3:45
11. "This is Your Life" (Dio, Grijalva) – 3:18

*The bonus track can be found on the Japanese pressing of the album

Credits

• Ronnie James Dio – Vocals
• Tracy Grijalva (a.k.a. Tracy G) – Guitars
• Jeff Pilson – Bass
• Vinny Appice – Drums
• Scott Warren – Keyboards
• Recorded and mixed at Total Access, Redondo Beach, California, USA
• Produced by Ronnie James Dio
• Engineered by Wyn Davis
• Second engineered by Darian Rundall and Eddie Ashworth
• Originally mastered by Eddy Schreyer at Oasis Mastering
• Cover illustration by Paul Gregory at Studio 54