Texas rockers DANGEROUS TOYS — known for their brief but memorable rise during the late-’80s glam metal scene — will release their new collection Demolition on December 12. The album will be available on CD, vinyl, and as a limited-edition cassette via Cleopatra Records.
Although the band hasn’t released a new studio album in three decades, anyone who has caught DANGEROUS TOYS live in recent years knows they still deliver some of the most electric performances around. They keep their schedule tight, only hitting the stage a few times a year, but every show counts. The band has already played several select dates in 2025, with two more on the horizon: November 14 at the Rochester Opera House in Rochester, New Hampshire, and November 15 at the Met Cafe in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Looking ahead, they’ll also be part of next spring’s Monsters Of Rock cruise.
With all this happening — and the long-anticipated fifth studio album still slowly taking shape — fans now have something substantial to look forward to. “Demolition” gathers 10 previously unreleased tracks recorded during the downtime between 1991’s Hellacious Acres and 1994’s Pissed. The material captures the band honing and expanding the signature blend of Southern rock swagger and hard-driving metal first showcased on their debut.
Curated personally by DANGEROUS TOYS, these tracks come with a note from the band: “these old songs… obviously didn’t make the cut when choosing songs for official release.” In other words, they’ve been sitting unheard in the vault all these years — and for most listeners, this will be the very first time they’re ever heard.
Although the band jokingly refers to these 10 tracks as “rejects” (and they do so themselves!), it’s important to remember the sheer volume of material they were creating at the time. During this era, DANGEROUS TOYS reportedly wrote at least 70 new songs, most of them captured quickly — sometimes just days after the initial spark, sketched onto scrap paper or roughly demoed on a cassette before being taken into the rehearsal room. The tapes kept stacking up, and when it came time to assemble Pissed, only a select few songs could make the cut, leaving the rest stored away and unheard — until now.
Quality wasn’t the issue here — there were simply far more songs than could ever fit on a record. Until now.
The countdown to “Demolition” officially starts with the release of the first single, “Rock Shock Cowboy”. As guitarist Scott Dalhover explains, this track comes “straight out of the way-back machine from deep within the DANGEROUS TOYS archives.” It offers a snapshot of where the band was creatively during that intense songwriting period — raw, energetic, and unapologetically in their element.
Track listing:
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
