Point Blank
1994 · Roadrunner RR 9055-2 · Arizona
- Artist
- Nailbomb
- Title
- Point Blank
- Release
- Point Blank
- Year
- 1994
- Label
- Roadrunner # RR 9055-2
- Format
- CD · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Arizona, USA
- Genre
- Metal · Industrial Metal · Thrash Metal
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
Industrial Metal / Thrash Metal group, formed in 1993 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, and disbanded in 1995, comprised Max Cavalera (vocals, guitar, bass, samples) and Alex Newport (vocals, guitar, bass, samples) - the front cover of this album (Roadrunner Records # RR 9055-2), as well as its name, are from the photograph called "Point Blank Persuasion", taken in Tam Ky, South Vietnam, on 9 November 1967, showing a U.S. soldier pressing an M16 rifle to the head of a woman "Viet Cong suspect" - it's used to provide the listener with a preview this nihilistic, protest album, or as described by Max Cavalera in an interview, it "represented the music of the album because it’s very aggressive, very war-like, but also black ‘n’ white with a punk kind of feeling".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Max Cavalera said in an interview with Revolver, 10 October 2017 about the front cover: "We weren't protesting a war or anything. We were just protesting. It was like a "fuck you" to everything. Now, I sort of look at Point Blank as a protest album. Maybe it was subconscious. At the time we didn't even know that's what we were doing" (1) In another interview with Vandala in March 2018, he also discussed the front cover: "We got in touch with Alternative Associated Press and they sent us a bunch of black ‘n’ white pictures from a lot of war pictures. One of the war pictures was that one of the lady with a gun pointed at her head. We thought that represented the music of the album because it’s very aggressive, very war-like, but also black ‘n’ white with a punk kind of feeling. We just wrote Nailbomb (logo) with military letters. I think it’s great, but it’s really shocking and really brutal. But we found out later that the lady in the picture never died. The soldier never shot her Which is one good thing about that picture is that she never died right there" (1)
Notes
Album line: the Vietnam reference is the cover photograph and the title, not a track (13 tracks, none about the war by title). Roadrunner RR 9055-2 CD / RR 9055-4 cassette, 8 March 1994. [From Rate Your Music]
About the artist
Industrial Metal / Thrash Metal group, formed in 1993 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, disbanded 1995; comprised Max Cavalera (vocals, guitar, bass, samples) and Alex Newport (vocals, guitar, bass, samples).