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.

Point Blank
Studio album by Nailbomb
Released	March 8, 1994
Recorded	1993
Genre	Industrial metal thrash metal groove metal
Length	62:38 76:19 (2004 remaster)
Label	Roadrunner
Producer	Alex Newport Max Cavalera
Nailbomb chronology
Point Blank (1994) Proud to Commit Commercial Suicide (1995)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	8/10[2]
Kerrang!	[3]
Rock Hard	8.5/10[4]
Vox	5/10[5]

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 immolation of Thích Quảng Đức. According to Cavalera, the woman in the cover lived after the photo was taken.^[6]

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.

Track listing

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

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Wasting Away"	3:06
2.	"Vai Toma no Cú" (Portuguese: "Take it in the ass")	4:47
3.	"24 Hour Bullshit"	3:54
4.	"Guerrillas"	4:26
5.	"Blind and Lost"	1:54
6.	"Sum of Your Achievements"	2:42
7.	"Cockroaches"	5:10
8.	"For Fuck's Sake"	5:44
9.	"World of Shit"	4:13
10.	"Exploitation" (Doom cover)	2:28
11.	"Religious Cancer"	5:09
12.	"Shit Piñata"	1:09
13.	"Sick Life" (The song "Sick Life" ends at 6:31. After 10 minutes of silence, at 16:31, an untitled improvised hidden track begins.)	17:51
Total length:		62:38

Bonus track version

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

No.	Title	Length
14.	"While You Sleep, I Destroy Your World"	5:06
15.	"Zero Tolerance"	6:34
16.	"Wasting Away" (live)	3:03
17.	"Guerillas" (live)	3:27
18.	"Cockroaches" (live)	4:06
19.	"Police Truck" (live; East Bay Ray, Jello Biafra)	3:08
Total length:		76:19

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.^[7]

Personnel

Nailbomb

• Max Cavalera: vocals, rhythm guitar, bass, sampling^[8] (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

Chart positions

Chart (1994)	Peak position
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[9]	70
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[10]	63
UK Albums (OCC)[11]	62