| Point Blank | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Nailbomb |
| Cover: | Point Blank (Nailbomb album) coverart.jpg |
| Released: | March 8, 1994 |
| Recorded: | 1993 |
| Length: | 62:38 76:19 (2004 remaster) |
| Label: | Roadrunner |
| Next Title: | Proud to Commit Commercial Suicide |
| Next Year: | 1995 |
Point Blank is the only studio album by heavy metal band Nailbomb, released on March 8, 1994, by Roadrunner Records. The side project was started by Max Cavalera and Alex Newport in the mid-1990s. Part of the first track, "Wasting Away", plays in the 1995 film To Die For.
The album cover is a photo of female Vietnamese civilian with a U.S. soldier's gun to her head, which Max Cavalera and Alex Newport retrieved from the Alternative Associated Press. Cavalera stated that they wanted to create a similar cover to Rage Against the Machine's self titled album, an image of the self immoltation of Thích Quảng Đức. According to Cavalera, the woman in the cover lived after the photo was taken.[1]
Point Blank was played live in its entirety for the first time in 2017 by Cavalera and his band Soulfly, more than 20 years after the release of the album and Nailbomb's breakup. Newport's parts were played by Cavalera's son Igor Amadeus Cavalera.
All tracks written by Max Cavalera and Alex Newport unless noted.
A remastered version was released on February 24, 2004, with liner notes and extra tracks:
"Guerrillas" contains a sample of "Procreation of the Wicked" by Celtic Frost and a sample from the movie Salvador. "Cockroaches" contains a sample from the movie . "For Fucks Sake" contains samples of GG Allin's last TV appearance on The Jane Whitney Show before his death in June 1993.[2]
vocals, rhythm guitar, bass, sampling[3] (vocals credited as "insults")
lead guitar on tracks 2, 9 & 11
drums on tracks 1, 5, 7, 10, 12 & 13
rhythm guitar on track 3
| Chart (1994) | Peakposition | |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[4] | 70 | |
| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[5] | 63 | |
| UK Albums (OCC)[6] | 62 |