Don't Get Mad, Get Even (album)

Don't Get Mad, Get Even is the fifth studio album by British hard rock/heavy metal band Samson, released in 1984. Don't Get Mad, Get Even was included in the three-disc compilation The Polydor Years, issued by Caroline International in 2017, which also includes the album Before the Storm and a third CD with various B-sides, live and studio rarities. This compilation was the only official transfer of the original record to CD. An unofficial bootleg was made and sold in New Zealand, released in 1997 on CD.

Reception
Reviews have been generally positive of the album since its release. Götz Kühnemund of the German magazine Rock Hard praised it, highly recommending it to metal fans and going on to say that it "grows with every listen and even becomes SAMSON's best album!" They compared the LP to being roughly on the same hardness level as Def Leppard's Pyromania album and that it will, therefore "not appeal to every headbanger. But every SAMSON fan won't be able to get it off the turntable after listening to it for the first time!"

Track listing
All songs written by Paul Samson, Chris Aylmer, Nicky Moore and Pete Jupp
 * Original vinyl release

Production
Samson
 * Nicky Moore – vocals
 * Paul Samson – guitar
 * Chris Aylmer – bass guitar
 * Pete Jupp – drums

Additional musicians
 * Martin Ditcham - percussion (additional)
 * Stevie Lange - backing vocals
 * Joy Yates - backing vocals

Production
 * Pip Williams - producer
 * Alwyn Clayden - art direction
 * Green Ink - artwork, design
 * Ian Cooper - mastering
 * Louis Austin - engineering
 * Gregg Jackman - engineering