Sacrifice

Sacrifice is the twelfth solo studio album by the English musician Gary Numan, released in October 1994 by Numa Records. Its release is often cited as marking the start of a critical and artistic rejuvenation for Numan. The album was released in the US in 1997 with a different title, Dawn, based on the comic book character Dawn. It also carried cover art by Joseph Michael Linsner.

A number of tracks displayed an antipathy towards religion, a stance that had been noted in isolated songs from early in Numan's career but which became more pronounced on this album and its successors, Exile (1997) and Pure (2000). While Exile was a fictional story, Numan later stated that "Sacrifice looks at my actual beliefs."

An "extended" version of Sacrifice, approximately twenty five minutes longer than the original, was released in 1995. The same year, most of the tracks appeared on Dark Light, Numan's live recording from the Sacrifice tour.

The album was released in 1999 with extra tracks in the US and UK by Eagle Records (Cleopatra Records). The US edition has a somewhat different selection of extra tracks in addition to new artwork, just like earlier reissues of albums that were first published on Numa Records.