Four Cuts EP is an EP

Extended play

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 by heavy metal

Heavy metal music

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 band Diamond Head

Diamond Head (band)

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 and was released in 1982. It was a double A-side with Call me and Trick or Treat, and was released by MCA

MCA Records

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. The EP also contained Dead Reckoning and a re-recorded version of Shoot Out the Lights as the two B-sides (hence, four cuts). This was the band's first release on a major label, and was designed to be a taster for their second album.

Call Me was later released as a single in its own right later that same year. The song also appeared on Diamond Head's second studio album, Borrowed Time, their first album to be released by MCA. Trick or Treat and Dead Reckoning were favourites in the band's live set during the 80s, however, neither song made it onto the Borrowed Time album, until the album was released in 2007 by Polish

Poland

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 based label Metal Mind Productions

Metal Mind Productions

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 (this release was limited to 2000 copies until Geffen Records

Geffen Records

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 put the remastered album, along with the band's third album Canterbury

Canterbury (album)

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, on general release). This was the first time that Trick or Treat was available on CD format. Dead Reckoning was later available on the band's 1987 compilation album Am I Evil

Am I Evil (album)

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. The original version of Shoot Out The Lights was previously released as an A-side in 1981 on the band's own label, Happy Face Records, however this version is a re-recorded version, which to date has not been released on CD.

Track listing

1. Call Me
2. Trick or Treat
3. Dead Reckoning
4. Shoot Out the Lights (Re-recorded Version)