Switchblade (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Switchblade
Type = Album
Artist = Schaft


Released = September 21 1994
Recorded = Victor Aoyama Studio, Inning Recording Hostler, Master Rock Studios (UK), Ranch Apocalypse (UK), Matrix Recording Studio (UK), & Livingston Studios (UK)
Genre = Industrial
Length = 77:58
Label = Victor Entertainment
Producer = Schaft (Maki Fujii, Imai Hisashi, Raymond Watts)
Reviews =
*(none available)

Last album =
This album = "Switchblade"
(1994)
Next album = "Switch"
(1994)

"Switchblade" is a 1994 album by Schaft. A promotional video for the song "Arbor Vitate" was filmed, and was later re-used by PIG for their version of the song.

Track listing

# "Olive" – 5:04
# "The Hero Inside" – 4:01
# "Thirsty Fly" – 6:27
# "SKF10047" – 7:35
# "Nothing" – 5:11
# "Slice" – 7:50
# "Broken English" – 6:33
# "Merry Christmas on Mars" – 6:32
# "Information" – 4:24
# "Visual Cortex" – 8:03
# "Fetid Air" – 6:04
# "Arbor Vitate" – 4:59
# "Cold Light" – 5:15

Personnel

* Imai Hisashi – guitars, noises, vocals (2)
* Maki Fujii – electronic devices, computer programming, acoustic piano, noises
* Raymond Watts – computer programming, guitars, noises, vocals (2–3, 5–6, 11–13)
* Susanne Bramson – vocals (10)
* Julianne Reagan – vocals (7)
* Jonny Stephens – vocals (9)
* Lynne Hobday – spoken word (1)
* Steve White – guitars (5)
* CraY (The Mad Capsule Market's) – drums (12)
* Morota Koh (Doom) – bass guitar (9)
* Keith LeBlanc – drums (3, 11)
* Motokatsu (The Mad Capsule Market's) – drums (12)
* Seiichi Teratani – drums (2)
* DJ Peah – scratching (9)
* Michiru Oshima – orchestral arrangement (7)
* Kazutoshi Yokoyama – manipulation assisting (2, 6, 8)
* Coil, Danny Hyde: mixing (1, 10)

Trivia

* The song "Broken English" on this album is a cover of a song originally by Marianne Faithfull, and is the music accompanying an alternative version of the trailer of Hellsing (OVA).