Guts of a Virgin
# Guts of a Virgin

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| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
| Spin Alternative Record Guide | 5/10 |

Guts of a Virgin is the first album by American band Painkiller, a band featuring John Zorn, Bill Laswell and Mick Harris. It contains twelve tracks and was released in 1991 on Toy's Factory in Japan and Earache Records in England.

## Artwork

The cover art, which features a bald woman with her insides exposed, was censored, seized and destroyed the first shipment in the UK for violating the Obscene Publications Act.

## Critical reception

The Quietus called the album "intense but still something you could call 'rock.'" Trouser Press called it an "exposition of versatile thrash jazz," writing that "each instrument occupies its own sonic terrain, combining in a sprawl of unanticipated death metal."

## Personnel

* John Zorn – alto saxophone, vocals
* Bill Laswell – bass
* Mick Harris – drums, vocals

Production

* Wes Naprstek – engineering
* Howie Weinberg – mastering
* Oz Fritz – mixing
* Lisa Wells – photography
* Tanaka Tomoyo, Anthony Lee – design

Publishing

* M.P.O – pressing
* Earache, Theater of Musical Optics, Nation Music – publishing
