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Vicious Circle is the fourth album by the American hard rock band L.A. Guns.[2][3] The first single was "Long Time Dead".[4] The band supported the album with a North American tour.[5]

Vicious Circle
Studio album by L.A. Guns
Released	October 4, 1994
Studio	Ocean Way (Hollywood) 4th Street Recorders (Santa Monica) Red Zone (Burbank, California)
Genre	Hard rock hair metal
Length	56:06
Label	Polydor[1]
Producer	Jim Wirt Michael James Jackson (Crystal Eyes)
L.A. Guns chronology
Best Of: Hollywood a Go-Go (1994) Vicious Circle (1994) American Hardcore (1996)
Singles from L.A. Guns
"Long Time Dead" Released: 1994 (1994) "Face Down" Released: 1994 (1994) "Killing Machine" Released: 1994 (1994)

Production

Michael "Bones" Gersema drums on several songs.[1] "I'd Love to Change the World" is a cover of the Ten Years After song.[6]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[7]
Calgary Herald	A–[6]
Chicago Tribune	[8]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	8/10[9]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[1]
Rock Hard	8.0/10[10]
The Tampa Tribune	[11]

The Chicago Tribune stated that the band "hasn't wandered a bit from the glam metal they helped popularize in the late '80s—a raunchy sound that makes the true headbanger cringe," but conceded that the album "also features some danceable tunes."[8] The Calgary Herald determined that "bow-taut guitar solos are slung against arrows of melody fired at the bulls-eye of '70s rock."[6] The Tampa Tribune opined that "guitarist Tracii Guns' trigger-finger riffs still fire faster than a speeding bullet."[11]

Track listing

Personnel

• Phil Lewis – lead vocals except on "Nothing Better to Do", acoustic guitar
• Tracii Guns – lead guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
• Mick Cripps – lead and rhythm guitar, piano, keyboards, bass on track 4, backing vocals
• Kelly Nickels – bass guitar, lead vocals on "Nothing Better to Do", backing vocals

Additional musicians

• Guy Griffin – acoustic guitar on track 15
• Michael “Bones” Gersema – drums on tracks 1, 5, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17, backing vocals on tracks 1, 13 and 14
• Myron Grombacher – drums on tracks 2, 10, 11, and 12
• Nickey Alexander – drums on track 4
• Steve Riley – drums on track 7
• Doni Gray – drums on track 8
• Steve Councel – harmonica on track 8, 14 and 15, backing vocals on track 8
• Cliff Brodsky – piano on track 8
• Steve Dior – backing vocals on track 2
• Jim Wirt – backing vocals

Production

• Jim Wirt – producer, engineer, mixing of tracks 6, 11 to 13
• Michael James Jackson – producer and engineer on "Crystal Eyes"
• Dan Daniel, Dennis Degher, Jeff Graham, Mark Shoffner, Marnie Riley, Tim Allison – assistant engineers
• Mick Guzauski – mixing of tracks 1 to 5, 7 to 10, 14, 15
• Stephen Marcussen – mastering
• Robert Bisbo – album cover art

Charts

Chart (1994)	Peak position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[12]	58

References

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