Front line assembly

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Front line assembly
Official band logo
Official band logo
General information
Genre (s) Post-Industrial , EBM , Industrial Dance (1986–1989)
Electro , Industrial Metal (1990–1994)
Drum and Bass , Electronica (since 1995)
founding 1986
Founding members
Bill Leeb
Current occupation
Singing, synthesizer, programming
 Bill Leeb
guitar
 Jared Slingerland
(since 2005)
Synthesizer, programming
 Rhys Fulber
(1990–1996, 2003–2010, since 2014)
former members
Jed Simon
(1994-1999, live performances)
Devin Townsend
Guitar, keyboard
Michael Balch
(1986–1990)
Adrian White (live performances)
Synthesizer, programming, engineering
 Chris Peterson
(1997-2002, 2006-2012)
Synthesizer, programming
 Jeremy Inkel †
(2006-2018)

Front Line Assembly (FLA, sometimes written Frontline Assembly ) is a Canadian music project from Vancouver .

Band history

1986 to 1988

The Vienna- born Bill Leeb left Skinny Puppy in 1986 , where he has been playing synthesizers and electric bass since 1985 under the pseudonym Wilhelm Schroeder . Together with Michael Balch ( keyboard , electric guitar ) he founded Front Line Assembly. The group's main influences include bands such as DAF , Portion Control , SPK and Liaisons Dangereuses . After the two demo cassettes in 1986, the debut album The Initial Command was released a year later . In the same year the side project Delerium was founded.

In 1988 the follow-up album State of Mind was released . The collaboration with Wax Trax began with the two mini-albums Corrosion and Disorder ! and Third Mind Records . The two EPs were released in the same year as a compilation Convergence and in 1995 with bonus tracks as Corroded Disorder .

1989 to 1997

In 1989 the third album Gashed Senses & Crossfire was released . After the release, Balch got out and Rhys Fulber became a full member. Caustic Grip followed a year later , and Tactical Neural Implant was released in 1992 . The single Mindphaser was named Independent Video of the Year 1992 by MTV . This was followed by the move to Roadrunner Records and the next album Millennium (1994), on which Front Line Assembly added metal guitars to their industrial sound for the first time , which were recorded by Devin Townsend and Don Harrison . On the follow-up album Hard Wired (1995 on Off Beat and, like the following albums, marketed in the United States by Metropolis Records ), Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber combined the guitars of Millennium with the atmosphere of Tactical Neural Implant .

In 1997 Front Line Assembly collaborated with Die Krupps on the remix album Remix Wars , a little later Fulber left the band and was replaced by Chris Peterson .

1998 to 2019

Front line assembly

The new line-up made their debut in 1998 with FLAvor of the Weak . The album featured typical dance elements like drum and bass and electronica . The albums Implode (1999) and Epitaph (2001) followed. After Peterson left the group, Rhys Fulber returned and Front Line Assembly released the single Maniacal in late 2003 , followed by the album Civilization in 2004 . In 2005 Chris Peterson came back to the band and in June 2006 the album Artificial Soldier was released . A world tour followed and in 2007 Front Line Assembly released the album Fallout , which mainly consisted of remixed pieces by Artificial Soldier and three new tracks.

The studio album Improvised Electronic Device was released in 2010, but without the participation of Fulber, who was busy with his Fear Factory project at the time . In addition to Leeb and Peterson, Jeremy Inkel (synthesizer) and Jared Slingerland (guitar) have been part of the band since then.

Since the end of 2011 FLA have been working on the album AirMech , which is the soundtrack for the computer game of the same name and was released on November 14, 2012 on Metropolis. In 2013 the studio album Echogenetic was released through Metropolis. The remix album Echoes was released on May 9, 2014.

In 2018 the second soundtrack for the AirMech series was released, the album is called WarMech . Jeremy Inkel passed away unexpectedly.

In 2019 the regular album Wake up the coma was released with three guest singers and u. a. a cover version of Rock Me Amadeus by Falco .

Cast overview

Discography

Albums

  • 1987: The Initial Command
  • 1988: State of Mind
  • 1989: Gashed Senses & Crossfire
  • 1990: Caustic Grip
  • 1992: Tactical Neural Implant
  • 1994: Millennium
  • 1995: Hard Wired
  • 1997: FLAvor of the Weak
  • 1999: Implode
  • 2001: epitaph
  • 2004: Civilization
  • 2006: Artificial Soldier
  • 2007: Fallout
  • 2010: Improvised Electronic Device
  • 2012: AirMech
  • 2013: Echogenetic
  • 2014: Echoes
  • 2018: WarMech
  • 2019: Wake Up the Coma

Compilations and live albums

  • 1988: Convergence
  • 1989: Live
  • 1995: Corroded Disorder
  • 1996: The Remix Wars: Strike 2
  • 1996: Live Wired
  • 1997: Reclamation
  • 1998: Re- Wind
  • 1998: The Singles: Four Fit
  • 1998: Monument
  • 1999: explosion
  • 2012: Plasticity (compilation of the singles Plasticity , Prophecy and Fatalist )

Singles and EPs

  • 1988: Corrosion
  • 1988: Disorder
  • 1989: Digital Tension Dementia
  • 1989: No Limit
  • 1990: Iceolate
  • 1990: commission
  • 1991: virus
  • 1992: Mindphaser
  • 1992: The Blade
  • 1994: Millennium
  • 1994: Surface Patterns
  • 1995: Circuitry
  • 1996: Plasticity
  • 1997: Colombian Necktie
  • 1998: Comatose
  • 1999: Prophecy
  • 1999: fatalist
  • 2001: Everything Must Perish
  • 2003: Maniacal
  • 2004: Vanished
  • 2010: Shifting Through the Lens
  • 2010: Attack [Remix]

Demos

  • 1986 The Official Total Terror Part I
  • 1986/87 The Official Total Terror Part II
  • 1986: Nerve War

swell

  1. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/jeremy.inkel/posts/10155775797720791
  2. ↑ a b c d Front Line Assembly. Metropolis Records, accessed March 1, 2012 .
  3. ^ John Bush: Front Line Assembly - Millennium. Allmusic, accessed on March 1, 2012 (English).
  4. ↑ Steve Huey: Front Line Assembly - Flavor of the Week. Allmusic, accessed on March 1, 2012 (English).
  5. ^ Anne Goldacker: Stories: Front Line Assembly. (No longer available online.) The SPINE, June 28, 2010, archived from the original on December 21, 2011 ; Retrieved March 1, 2012 .
  6. ↑ AirMech. November 14, 2012, accessed November 18, 2012 .

Web links

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