Armageddon It

"Armageddon It"
Single by Def Leppard
from the album Hysteria
B-side
  • "Ring of Fire" (UK)
  • "Release Me" (US)
Released
  • March 1988 (UK)
  • November 1988 (US)
Recorded1984–1987
Genre
Length
  • 5:24 (Atomic mix/album version)
  • 7:39 (Nuclear mix)
LabelMercury
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Def Leppard singles chronology
"Hysteria"
(1987)		 "Armageddon It"
(1988)		 "Love Bites"
(1988)
Music video
"Armageddon It" on YouTube

"Armageddon It" is a 1988 song by English heavy metal band Def Leppard and is the fifth single from their fourth studio album Hysteria. It went to number 20 in the United Kingdom, number 3 in the United States, number 34 in Australia, number 2 in New Zealand, number 11 in Ireland and number 8 in Canada.

Track listings

CD: Bludgeon Riffola / LEPCD4 (UK) / 870 239-2 (INT)

  1. "Armageddon It"
  2. "Ring of Fire"
  3. "Animal"
  4. "Pour Some Sugar on Me"

7-inch: Bludgeon Riffola / Vertigo / 872 692-7P (CANADA) / picture disc

  1. "Armageddon It"
  2. "Release Me"

7-inch: Bludgeon Riffola / Polygram / Mercury / 872 692-7 (INT)

  1. "Armageddon It"
  2. "Release Me"

References

  1. ↑ Devores, Courtney (July 20, 2014). "Kiss and Def Leppard rock the rain away in Charlotte". The Charlotte Observer. Archived from the original on 10 April 2021. Retrieved April 9, 2021. [...] "Armageddon It" held the most thematic weight as statistics about world hunger, HIV, the environment, and cancer, ticked up on a giant screen behind them. The climbing stats pitted the number of overweight people in the world against the number of hungry and the rate at which forests are being pummeled with the time with which the world's oil will run out—all quite interesting stuff. I'm not sure how many in the audience—fists raised, singing along wholeheartedly—were "really getting it", but it was quite a powerful way to present a 25-year-old pop-metal hit.