Torture Garden (album)

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Torture Garden
Torture Garden cover
Studio album by Naked City
Released 1989
Recorded 1989- 1990
Genre Avant-Garde
Label Elektra/Nonesuch
Producer(s) John Zorn

[edit] Album Information

Torture Garden was an album released in 1990. It was a compilation album. Torture Garden is an album by speed metal jazz band Naked City featuring Yamatsuka Eye on vocals. The album is a collection of 'hardcore miniatures' from Naked City and Grand Guignol. Unlike other Naked City albums, there are no breaks between the screaming, seemingly random saxophone and speed metal. There have been a variety of album covers for this album.

It was re-released in 1996 with Leng Tch'e simply as Black Box.

[edit] Track Listing

  1. Blood Is Thin
  2. Demon Sanctuary
  3. Thrash Jazz Assassin
  4. Dead Spot
  5. Bonehead
  6. Speedball
  7. Blood Duster
  8. Pile Driver
  9. Shangkuan Ling-Feng
  10. Numbskull
  11. Perfume of a Critic's Burning Flesh
  12. Jazz Snot Eat Shit
  13. The Prestigitator
  14. No Reason To Believe
  15. Hellraiser
  16. Torture Garden
  17. Slan
  18. Hammerhead
  19. The Ways of Pain
  20. The Noose
  21. Sack of Shit
  22. Blunt Instrument
  23. Osaka Bondage
  24. Igneous Ejaculation
  25. Shallow Grave
  26. Ujaku
  27. Kaoru
  28. Dead Dread
  29. Billy Liar
  30. Victims of Torture
  31. Speedfreaks
  32. New Jersey Scum Swamp
  33. S & M Sniper
  34. Pigfucker
  35. Cairo Chop Shop
  36. Fuck the Facts
  37. Obeah Man
  38. Facelifter
  39. N.Y. Flat Top Box
  40. Whiplash
  41. The Blade
  42. Gob of Spit