{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Digital Dictator | type = studio | artist = Vicious Rumors | cover = Digitaldictator.JPG | alt = | caption = Cover art by Guy Aitchison | released = {{Start date|1988|2|9}} | recorded = 1987 at Prairie Sun Recording Studios in Cotati, California | venue = | studio = | genre = Heavy metal<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/album/digital-dictator-mw0000824093 "Digital Dictator - Vicious Rumors"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150712092705/http://www.allmusic.com/album/digital-dictator-mw0000824093 |date=2015-07-12 }}. ''AllMusic''. All Media Network. Retrieved 2012-11-06.</ref> | length = 38:57 | label = Shrapnel | producer = Steve Fontano, Geoff Thorpe | prev_title = Soldiers of the Night | prev_year = 1985 | next_title = Vicious Rumors | next_year = 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);<ref>[http://www.discogs.com/Vicious-Rumors-Digital-Dictator/release/2273803 "Vicious Rumors - Digital Dictator"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120630114736/http://www.discogs.com/Vicious-Rumors-Digital-Dictator/release/2273803 |date=2012-06-30 }}. Discogs. Retrieved 2012-11-06.</ref> a remastered edition was reissued in 2009. This is the first Vicious Rumors album to feature vocalist Carl Albert, who would stay in the band until his death in 1995.
==Track listing== {{Track listing | headline = "Western Front" (side one) | title1 = Replicant | note1 = Instrumental | writer1 = Dave Starr, Mark McGee | length1 = 1:04 | title2 = Digital Dictator | writer2 = Starr, Geoff Thorpe, McGee, Carl Albert | length2 = 3:17 | title3 = Minute to Kill | writer3 = Thorpe, Albert, Larry Howe | length3 = 3:34 | title4 = Towns on Fire | writer4 = Thorpe, Howe | length4 = 4:23 | title5 = Lady Took a Chance | writer5 = Thorpe | length5 = 6:11 }} {{Track listing | headline = "Eastern Front" (side two) | title6 = Worlds and Machines | writer6 = Thorpe, McGee, Howe | length6 = 5:30 | title7 = The Crest | writer7 = Thorpe | length7 = 2:56 | title8 = R.L.H. | writer8 = Thorpe, Starr, McGee | length8 = 4:00 | title9 = Condemned | writer9 = Thorpe, Albert, McGee | length9 = 3:53 | title10 = Out of the Shadows | writer10 = Thorpe, McGee, Albert | length10 = 4:09 | total_length = 38:57 }}
==Personnel== ;Vicious Rumors *Carl Albert – lead vocals *Geoff Thorpe – guitars, backing vocals *Mark McGee – guitars, backing vocals, mandolin *Dave Starr – bass, backing vocals *Larry Howe – drums, backing vocals
;Additional musicians *John Lavaysse – backing vocals *Dino Alden – backing vocals
;Production *Steve Fontano – production, engineering, mixing *Geoff Thorpe – cover concept, mixing, production *Mark McGee – mixing *Dave Starr – mixing *George Horn – mastering *Dino Alden – assistant engineering *Guy Aitchison – cover art *Steve Pollutro – logo *Rocky Ball – photography *Doug Troxell – photography, production management, sleeve design *Rick Likong – photography *John Umphrey – photography *Stephanie Ball – photography *Tim Gennert – remastering (reissue)
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