Nailbomb - Point Blank - 1994 -flac- -rlg- |verified| May 2026

Released on March 8, 1994 Roadrunner Records Point Blank is the singular studio album by the industrial metal side project . Formed by Max Cavalera Alex Newport Fudge Tunnel

  1. "Wasting Away" – The drum machine kick drum hits at 50Hz. In FLAC, it triggers subwoofers physically. In MP3, it sounds like a thud.
  2. "Guerrillas" – The panning of the machine-gun samples moves violently left-right. Lossless codecs preserve the transient attack.
  3. "Cockroaches" – Max’s throaty Portuguese vocal sample in the bridge has a reverb tail that cuts off abruptly in lossy formats.
  4. "Sum of Your Achievements" – The quiet-to-loud dynamic shift requires a full 16-bit range. RLG’s FLAC captures the noise floor perfectly.
  5. "Religious Cancer" – The bass distortion is so heavy that it clips the preamp of the original recording. That clipping is data, and FLAC saves every bit.

Part 3: Why the 1994 Original Matters (And Not the Remaster)

In 2014, Roadrunner Records released a "reimagined" version of Point Blank with new overdubs and remixes. For purists, this is heresy. The 1994 original is raw, unpolished, and brutally analog. Nailbomb - Point Blank - 1994 -FLAC- -RLG-