Blackmail (album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Blackmail

| type = Album

| artist = Blackmail

| cover = Blackmail (album by Blackmail).jpg

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| released = {{flagicon|Germany}} October 10, 1997

| recorded = 1994–1997

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| genre = Alternative rock, alternative metal, grunge, progressive rock

| length = 56:30

| label = bluNoise Records

| producer = Kurt Ebelhäuser

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| prev_year =

| next_title = Science Fiction

| next_year = 1998

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Blackmail (stylised as blackmail) is the debut album by the artist of the same name. The album consisted of tracks that the band was able to record in a high-tech recording studio that was readily lent to them by a German producer legend named Stuart Bruce who was impressed with their demo-recordings. Bruce, as well as Guido Lucas, produced the album. Guido Lucas started his own record label in Koblenz known as {{Proper name|bluNoise}} Records. Blackmail was able to secure his support, after many other record labels turned down their request to be taken in. The album, however, still did not get a very positive consumer response.