The Horrendous Disc [10-inch promo EP]

Description

The Horrendous Disc is a four-track 10-inch promotional EP by the American rock band Daniel Amos, released on Solid Rock Records in July 1980, manufactured and distributed by Myrrh Records, a division of Word (catalogue number SREP-207-DJ). All tracks were lifted from the band’s full-length album Horrendous Disc released on Solid Rock Records in April the following year. The album was recorded by Mike Stone, assisted by Thom Roy and Wally Grant, at what was then known as Maranatha! Studios located in Santa Ana, California (to be renamed Whitefield Studios the following year), with Stone and the band co-producing. Mixed by Stone, Ken Suesov, Mark Heard, and the band at Maranatha! Studios and at Wilder Brothers Studios in Century City, California. All songs written by Terry Taylor except the title track co-written with Jerry Chamberlain and Mark Cook

The full-length album entitled Horrendous Disc was recorded by the band during the first part of 1978 and the project was finished by the Summer of 1978. For reasons that remain a mystery, the finished album was shelved by Solid Rock Records for nearly three years. In August 1978, CCM Magazine‘s publisher John Styll received a photograph along with an announcement of the upcoming release of the Horrendous Disc album, pending negotiations, information he passed on to the readers of the magazine. In January 1980, various tracks from the long delayed album appeared on the radio show Rock & Religion (a.k.a. Rock Scope, a syndicated radio program based in Sacramento, California), and in July, Word Records’ radio promo man “dangerous Dan” Hickling released a 10-inch Horrendous Disc EP to radio stations, pressed on blue and white swirled vinyl, with Side One (33 1/3 RPM) featuring “I Believe In You,” “Hound of Heaven” and “Horrendous Disc”, and Side Two (78 RPM) featuring the flying saucer sounds, and “On The Line”.

In April 1981, the full-length Horrendous Disc album finally saw its long overdue release.

10-inch EP tracklist:

Side One (33-1/3 RPM)
A1. “I Believe In You” – 3:48
A2. “Hound Of Heaven” – 4:07
A3. “Horrendous Disc” – 5:25

Side Two (78 RPM)
B1. “On the Line” – 5:20

Note: For Promotion Only, Not For Sale.