Point Blank (Nailbomb album)

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.

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 Zyon.

Track listing
All tracks written by Max Cavalera and Alex Newport unless noted.

Bonus track version
A remastered version was released on February 24, 2004, with liner notes and extra tracks:

Samples
"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 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. "For Fucks Sake" contains samples of GG Allin's last TV appearance on The Jane Whitney Show before his death in June 1993.

Personnel

 * Nailbomb
 * Max Cavalera: vocals, rhythm guitar, bass, sampling (vocals credited as "insults")
 * Alex Newport: vocals, lead guitar, bass, sampling (vocals credited as "mouthful of hate")


 * Additional personnel
 * Andreas Kisser: lead guitar on tracks 2, 9 & 11
 * Igor Cavalera: drums on tracks 1, 5, 7, 10, 12 & 13
 * Dino Cazares: rhythm guitar on track 3


 * Production
 * Produced by Alex Newport and Max Cavalera
 * Recorded by Otto Agnello
 * Mixed by Alex Newport