| Guts of a Virgin | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Painkiller |
| Cover: | Guts of a Virgin.jpg |
| Released: | 1991 |
| Recorded: | April 1991 at Greenpoint, Brooklyn |
| Genre: | Jazzcore, grindcore, avant-garde metal |
| Length: | 24:15 |
| Label: | Toy's Factory Earache[1] |
| Producer: | John Zorn |
| Next Title: | Buried Secrets |
| Next Year: | 1992 |
Guts of a Virgin is the first album by American band Painkiller, a band featuring John Zorn, Bill Laswell and Mick Harris.[2] [3] It contains twelve tracks and was released in 1991 on Toy's Factory in Japan and Earache Records in England.
The cover art, which features a bald woman with her insides exposed, was censored, seized and destroyed the first shipment in the UK for violating the Obscene Publications Act.[4]
The Quietus called the album "intense but still something you could call 'rock.'"[5] Trouser Press called it an "exposition of versatile thrash jazz," writing that "each instrument occupies its own sonic terrain, combining in a sprawl of unanticipated death metal."[6]
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