Switchblade (album)

Switchblade
Studio album by 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)
Schaft chronology
Switchblade (1994) 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

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

Personnel

• Hisashi Imai – 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 Regan – vocals (7)
• Jonny Stephens – vocals (9)
• Lynne Hobday – spoken word (1)
• Steve White – guitars (5)
• CraY (The Mad Capsule Market's) – bass guitar (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)
• Autechre - mixing (4)

Trivia

• The song "Broken English" on this album is a cover of a song originally by Marianne Faithfull, and is the music accompanying the original version of the first trailer of Hellsing (OVA) as shown at Anime Expo 2005. The song was later used in the series proper as an insert song for episode 5.