Sacrifice by Gary Numan

Sacrifice, Gary Numan's 12th solo studio album, came out on Numa Records in October 1994, and it's usually pointed to as the record where the old android shook off the rust and started his critical and artistic comeback. The sound is industrial rock, all grinding, distorted synths and clanking mechanical weight, and on tracks like "Love and Napalm" the menace feels real again.

What changed most was the subject matter. Numan had taken the odd swipe at religion before, but here the hostility moves to the centre, and he later said this was the album that set out what he truly believed; Exile and Pure would carry the fight on. A version running about twenty-five minutes longer followed in 1995, as did the live Dark Light, drawn from the Sacrifice tour. In the US it surfaced in 1997 under a new title, Dawn, named after the comic book character, with cover art by Joseph Michael Linsner.

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