4-Way Diablo
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{{Infobox album
| name = 4-Way Diablo
| type = studio
| artist = Monster Magnet
| cover = 4-Way_Diablo.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{start date|2007|11|6}}
| recorded = 2006–2007
| venue =
| studio = Sound City Studios, American Studios, The Sunset Lodge and Hydeaway Studios
| genre = *Stoner rock
- psychedelic rock{{cite web|url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/60316/Monster-Magnet-4-Way-Diablo/|title=Review: Monster Magnet - 4-Way Diablo|publisher=Sputnik Music|date=December 28, 2013|access-date=June 29, 2024}}
- garage rock
| length = 57:47
| label = SPV
| producer = Dave Wyndorf, Matt Hyde
| prev_title = Monolithic Baby!
| prev_year = 2004
| next_title = Mastermind
| next_year = 2010
| misc = {{Singles
| name = 4-Way Diablo
| type = studio
| single1 = Wall of Fire
| single1date = 2007
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/four-way-diablo-mw0000484583|title=Four-Way Diablo - Monster Magnet | Album|website=AllMusic|access-date=November 6, 2024}}
| rev2 = The A.V. Club
| rev2Score =(B-){{cite web|url=http://www.avclub.com/review/monster-magnet-em4-way-diabloem-7411|title=Monster Magnet: 4-Way Diablo|work=The A.V. Club|access-date=November 26, 2013|archive-date=December 2, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202221706/http://www.avclub.com/review/monster-magnet-em4-way-diabloem-7411|url-status=live}}
| rev3 = Blabbermouth.net
}}
4-Way Diablo is the seventh studio album by American rock band Monster Magnet, released in November 2007. The album was recorded between 2006 and 2007, following frontman Dave Wyndorf's overdose on anxiolytics in February 2006.Monster Magnet. 4-Way Diablo. Liner notes. Retrieved on November 5, 2007{{cite web |title=Monster Magnet singer Dave Wyndorf overdoses! |url=http://www.metalsludge.tv/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1193&Itemid=42 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207222118/http://www.metalsludge.tv/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1193&Itemid=42 |archivedate=February 7, 2012 |accessdate=September 24, 2007 |work=Metal Sludge}} 4-Way Diablo sold 1,800 copies on its first week of release in the United States and is the band's first album since Dopes to Infinity (1995) to not feature guitarist Phil Caivano.
Following the album's release, none of its songs were included in the concert sets. According to frontman Dave Wyndorf, they were not written as live songs and he deemed them too delicate to work as such.{{Cite web|title=Dear guitar hero Dave Wyndorf|url=http://www.guitarworld.com/dear-guitar-hero-dave-wyndorf|url-status=dead|access-date=5 November 2021|website=guitarworld|archive-date=October 25, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025204948/http://www.guitarworld.com/dear-guitar-hero-dave-wyndorf}} The album includes a cover of The Rolling Stones' "2000 Light Years from Home" from their 1967 psychedelic rock album Their Satanic Majesties Request. The track "No Vacation" is a re-recording of the song "Atom Age Vampire" originally featured on the EP Love Monster, a demo collection recorded by Wyndorf in 1988.
Track listing
{{Tracklist
| total_length = 57:47
| all_writing = Dave Wyndorf, except where noted.
| title1 = 4-Way Diablo
| length1 = 3:19
| title2 = Wall of Fire
| length2 = 3:44
| title3 = You're Alive
| length3 = 4:03
| title4 = Blow Your Mind
| length4 = 4:27
| title5 = Cyclone
| length5 = 5:32
| title6 = 2000 Light Years from Home
| note6 = The Rolling Stones cover
| length6 = 4:51
| title7 = No Vacation
| length7 = 5:01
| title8 = I'm Calling You
| length8 = 4:21
| title9 = Solid Gold
| length9 = 5:51
| title10 = Freeze and Pixillate
| length10 = 4:25
| title11 = A Thousand Stars
| length11 = 5:29
| title12 = Slap in the Face
| length12 = 4:26
| title13 = Little Bag of Gloom
| length13 = 2:18
}}
{{Tracklist
| headline = Vinyl bonus track
| title14 = Tomorrow's Sun
| length14 = 5:25
}}
Personnel
- Dave Wyndorf – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
- Ed Mundell – lead guitar
- Bob Pantella – drums
- Jim Baglino – bass
Charts
References
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