Ten Greatest Album Covers In Roadrunner History - NAILBOMB's Point Blank Is #5
March 21, 2010, 14 years ago
Roadrunner Records are counting down the Ten Greatest Album Covers In Roadrunner History. The list looks as follows:
#10 - KING DIAMOND - Abigail
#9 - MACHINE HEAD – The Blackening
#8 - TYPE O NEGATIVE - Slow, Deep And Hard
#7 - SEPULTURA - Chaos A.D.
#6 - KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - The End Of Heartache
NAILBOMB's Point Blank is #5
Roadrunner's commentary reads as follows:
The sonic love child of FUDGE TUNNEL's Alex Newport and SEPULTURA's Max Cavalera, this 1994 one-off album from their Nailbomb union showcased dense, industrialized heaviness, seething with all-out punk aggression.
In 13 tracks the revered duo - crediting Sepultura alumns Andreas Kisser and Iggor Cavalera, as well as FEAR FACTORY's Dino Cazares and WICKED DEATH's Ritchie Bujnowski as players on the final product - managed to make an angry masterpiece that meets in the middle of what both Sepultura and Fudge Tunnel were doing at the time. But as for the visual representation of Point Blank, the war-time photo of a Viet Cong woman with a gun to her head proves just as striking as the devastatingly heavy music within it's sleeve.
Watch as Senior VP of A&R; Monte Conner gives us more insight on what this album and it's artwork were all about and listen to the fast and furious 'Wasting Away' below:
