Blind Date with Violence

Infobox Album | Name = Blind Date with Violence
Type = Album
Artist = The Scourger


Released = January 4, 2006
Recorded = 2005
Genre = Thrash metal
Length = 38:50
Label = Cyclone Records
Producer = Aaro Seppovaara
Reviews =
Last album = "To the Slayground"
(2005)
This album = "Blind Date with Violence"
(2006)
Next album = "Dark Invitation to Armageddon"
(2008)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = International cover
Type = Studio


Lower caption = The cover used for the international version. |

"Blind Date with Violence" is the debut album by thrash metal band The Scourger. It was released on January 4, 2006 and later re-released as an international version with bonus tracks on October 6, 2006 via Cyclone Records. Two of the album's singles landed on the national Finnish charts: "Hatehead" at #1 in July 2005cite web | url = http://www.rockdetector.com/artist,54525.sm | title = The Scourger biography | work = Rockdetector | accessdate = 2008-07-09] cite web | url = http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=57256 | title = The Scourger: 'Blind Date with Violence' Re-Release Track Listing Revealed | date=2006-08-28 | work = Blabbermouth.net | accessdate = 2008-07-09] , and "Maximum Intensity" at #3 the following year, climbing to #2 one week later.

Track listing

#"Decline of Conformity / Grading: Deranged" – 5:52
#"Hatehead" – 3:32
#"Maximum Intensity" - 3:43
#"Enslaved to Faith" – 3:16
#"The Oath & the Lie" – 3:18
#"Chapter Thirteen" – 4:58
#"Pain Zone" - 4:53
#"Exodus Day" – 4:30
#"Feast of the Carnivore" – 4:48
#"Ghosts of War" (Slayer cover) – 3:48
#"Over the Wall" (Testament cover) – 4:14
#"The Greediness" – 5:28
#"Black Worms" – 6:05
#"Grading: Deranged [Live] " – 5:04
#"Maximum Intensity [Live] " – 3:41
#"The Oath & the Lie [Live] " – 3:32

*Tracks 10–16 are bonus tracks from the international version.

Credits

*Jari Hurskainen – vocals
*Seppo Tarvainen – drums
*Jani Luttinen – guitars
*Timo Nyberg – guitars
*Kimmo Kammonen – bass

*Aaro Seppovaara – producing, engineering, mixing
*Petri Majuri – mastering

References