Point Blank (Nailbomb album)

Point Blank
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 8, 1994
Recorded1993
Genre
Length62:38
76:19 (2004 remaster)
LabelRoadrunner
Producer
Nailbomb chronology
Point Blank
(1994)
Proud to Commit Commercial Suicide
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal8/10
Kerrang!
Rock Hard8.5/10
Vox5/10

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 immolation 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 Igor Amadeus Cavalera.