Front Line Assembly discography | |
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Studio albums | 17 |
Live albums | 3 |
Compilation albums | 13 |
Music videos | 10 |
EPs | 1 |
Singles | 30 |
Soundtrack albums | 2 |
Tribute albums | 5 |
Demos | 2 |
Remix albums | 4 |
Front Line Assembly , a Canadian Vancouver-based electro-industrial band, has released seventeen studio albums, three live albums, numerous singles and compilations, and two video game soundtracks. With Bill Leeb being the founder and sole permanent member of the band, Michael Balch, Rhys Fulber and Chris Peterson were acting as long-time members during different periods of time.
Year | Title | Notes |
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1986 | Nerve War | Self-release. Limited to 100 copies. [1] Three versions. Re-released as remastered version through Cleopatra in 2022. [2] |
Total Terror | Self-release. Limited to 100 copies. [1] |
Year | Album details | Notes |
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1987 | The Initial Command
| Re-released 1992 and 1997. The 1997 re-release contains two additional new tracks and comes with a different cover artwork. |
1988 | State of Mind | Re-released in 1998 with bonus track. Remastered and re-released in 2022 as part of the compilation Permanent Data 1986-1989 with bonus tracks. |
Corrosion | Re-released as part of Convergence in 1988 and Corroded Disorder in 1995. Remastered and re-released in 2022 as part of the compilation Permanent Data 1986-1989 and as individual LP. | |
1989 | Gashed Senses & Crossfire
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1990 | Caustic Grip
| |
1992 | Tactical Neural Implant
| Tactical Neural Implant sold more than 70,000 copies. [11] |
1994 | Millennium
| |
1995 | Hard Wired
| Also released in a limited edition Double CD box set. [13] Hard Wired sold at least 50,000 copies worldwide. [14] The limited edition with 5,000 copies was sold out in two weeks. [14] |
1997 | [FLA]vour of the Weak
| |
1999 | Implode
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2001 | Epitaph | |
2004 | Civilization
| On some retail CDs the back cover track listing failed to label some tracks correctly and omitted one track while the booklet left out one track. [19] |
2006 | Artificial Soldier | Reached No. 19 on Billboard's Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart. [22] |
2010 | Improvised Electronic Device
| Also released as a digital Deluxe Edition with two extra tracks. [24] Reached No. 23 on Billboard's Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart. [25] |
2013 | Echogenetic
| Reached No. 19 on Billboard's Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart [27] and the Heatseekers Albums chart. [28] |
2019 | Wake Up the Coma
| Reached no. 40 on Billboard's Independent Albums chart [29] and no. 15 on the Heatseekers Albums chart. [30] |
2021 | Mechanical Soul
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Year | Album details | Notes |
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1989 | Live
| Released as a Limited LP. Only 4000 copies made. Remastered and re-released in 2022 as part of the compilation Permanent Data 1986-1989. |
1996 | Live Wired
| Double live album. Also released in a limited edition box set with VHS. |
2015 | Kampfbereit
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Year | Album details | Notes |
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1988 | Convergence
| Compilation of Corrosion and Disorder with some unreleased tracks. |
1993 | Total Terror I
| CD release of most tracks of the Total Terror demo and additional tracks from 1986. Re-released 2004 together with Total Terror II as double CD album. Remastered and re-released with bonus tracks in 2022 as part of the compilation Permanent Data 1986-1989 and as individual LP. |
Total Terror II
| CD release of demo songs from 1986 and 1987. Re-released 2004 together with Total Terror I as double CD album. Remastered and re-released in 2022 as part of the compilation Permanent Data 1986-1989 and as individual LP. | |
1995 | Corroded Disorder
| New material plus tracks from Corrosion and Disorder . |
1997 | Reclamation
| Singles compilation. |
1998 | The Singles: Four Fit
| Compilation of previously released singles Virus, Iceolate, Provision and Mindphaser. |
Monument
| Singles compilation. | |
Cryogenic Studios
| Compilation with tracks from Front Line Assembly and side projects Delerium, Equinox, Pro>Tech and Synæsthesia, partly previously unreleased. | |
1999 | Explosion
| Singles compilation composed from tracks of the singles Circuitry, Plasticity, Colombian Necktie and Comatose. |
2001 | Cryogenic Studio, Vol. 2
| Compilation with tracks from Front Line Assembly and side projects Delerium, Equinox, Pro>Tech and Synæsthesia, partly previously unreleased. |
2004 | Complete Total Terror
| Two-disc compilation of Total Terror I and Total Terror II demo material. |
2005 | The Best of Cryogenic Studio
| Two-disc compilation with previously released tracks from Cryogenic Studios and Cryogenic Studio, Vol. 2. |
2022 | Permanent Data 1986-1989
| Six-disc compilation that consists of the releases Total Terror I, Total Terror II, State of Mind, Corrosion, Disorder and Live with bonus tracks. |
Year | Album details | Notes |
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1988 | Disorder | Re-released as part of Convergence in 1988 and Corroded Disorder in 1995. Remastered and re-released with bonus tracks in 2022 as part of the compilation Permanent Data 1986-1989 and as individual LP. |
Year | Album details | Notes |
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1996 | The Remix Wars: Strike 2
| Remix collaboration with Die Krupps. |
1998 | Re-wind
| Two-disc album with remixed tracks of [FLA]vour of the Weak. |
2007 | Fallout
| Originally announced as an EP. Released as an album with three previously unreleased tracks and nine remixes. [36] |
2014 | Echoes | |
2022 | The Machinists Reunited Tour EP
| Limited autographed edition available only during "The Machinists Reunited Tour 2022" at the concert venues. The EP contains two tracks each by Front Line Assembly and Die Krupps, each of which are reinterpreted by the other artist. |
Year | Album details | Notes |
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2000 | Quake III: Team Arena [41]
| Expansion pack for Quake III Arena . Collaboration with Sonic Mayhem. |
2012 | AirMech | |
2018 | WarMech |
Year | Album details | Song | Notes |
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1999 | Virgin Voices: A Tribute to Madonna, Vol. 1
| Justify My Love | |
1999 | We Will Follow: A Tribute to U2
| New Year's Day | Front Line Assembly with Tiffany. |
2023 | A Tribute To Rammstein
| Deutschland |
Year | Album details | Notes |
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2003 | Replicate 01: A Tribute to Front Line Assembly | First release on label MoMT Records. [50] |
2010 | Replicate 02: A Tribute to Front Line Assembly & Projects
| Last release on label MoMT Records. [52] |
Title | Year | Album | Label | Notes |
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Digital Tension Dementia | 1988 | Gashed Senses & Crossfire | Third Mind, Wax Trax! | Reached No. 45 on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Songs [53] |
No Limit | 1989 | |||
Iceolate | 1990 | Caustic Grip | Melody Maker 'Single Of The Week' [54] [55] | |
Provision | Melody Maker 'Single Of The Week' [54] [55] | |||
Virus | 1991 | Non-album single from the Caustic Grip sessions. | ||
Mindphaser | 1992 | Tactical Neural Implant | Third Mind | |
The Blade | ||||
Millennium | 1994 | Millennium | Roadrunner | |
Surface Patterns | 1995 | |||
Circuitry | Hard Wired | Off Beat, Metropolis | ||
Plasticity | 1996 | Non-album single from the Hard Wired sessions. | ||
Colombian Necktie | 1997 | [FLA]vour of the Weak | Off Beat, Metropolis, Energy | |
Comatose | 1998 | Off Beat, Metropolis | ||
Prophecy | 1999 | Implode | Metropolis, Zoth Ommog, Energy | |
Fatalist | ||||
Everything Must Perish | 2001 | Epitaph | Metropolis | |
Maniacal | 2003 | Civilization | Reached No. 15 on Billboard's Hot Dance Singles | |
Vanished | 2004 | |||
Shifting Through the Lens | 2010 | Improvised Electronic Device | Dependent, Metropolis | |
Angriff [Remix] | ||||
Eye on You | 2018 | Wake Up the Coma | Metropolis | |
Purge (Black Asteroid Remix) | 2022 | Mechanical Soul | Metropolis | |
Deutschland | 2023 | A Tribute To Rammstein | Cleopatra | Cover of German Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein. [56] |
Mechvirus featuring Ayria (Remix) [57] | WarMech | Artoffact | ||
Mechvirus featuring Ultra Sunn (Remix) [58] | ||||
Force Carrier featuring Bootblacks (Remix) [59] | 2024 | |||
Molotov featuring Seeming (Remix) [60] | ||||
Anthropod featuring Deep Infirmary (Remix) [61] | ||||
Heatmap featuring MVTANT (Remix) [62] | ||||
(Re)Creator featuring Fotocrime (Remix) [63] | ||||
Title | Year | Album | Label | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Notes |
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Body Count | 1988 | Disorder | Third Mind | Todd Taylor | Third Mind Records | |
Iceolate | 1990 | Caustic Grip | Eric Koziol | H-Gun Labs, Chicago | ||
Virus | 1991 | - | Jim Van Bebber, Bill Leeb | Plasma, Gary Blair Smith | Non-album track from the Caustic Grip sessions. | |
Mindphaser | 1992 | Tactical Neural Implant | Robert Lee | Plasma, Gary Blair Smith | Edits Front Line Assembly into clips from 1989 Japanese live-action mecha film Gunhed. [64] Won "Best Alternative Video" at Much Music's 1992 Canadian Music Video Awards. [65] | |
The Blade | Bill Morrison [66] | Dean English | ||||
Laughing Pain | - | Rod Chong, Bill Morrison [66] | Non-album track from The Blade single. | |||
Millennium [67] | 1994 | Millennium | Roadrunner | Eric Zimmerman, Lon Magdich | Marc Sayous | Directed in Seattle. |
Plasticity [68] | 1996 | - | Metropolis | Rod Chong | Real Life Pictures, Ulf Buddensieck | Non-album track from the Hard Wired sessions. Won Best Alternative Video at the 7th annual MuchMusic Video Awards in 1996. |
Epitaph | 2001 | Epitaph | Bill Morrison [66] | |||
Angriff | 2010 | Improvised Electronic Device | Dependent | Henrik Bauer [69] | Bill Leeb, Chris Peterson, Jeremy Inkel, Jared Slingerland [69] | |
Blood | 2014 | Echogenetic | Metropolis | Rim Visuals [70] | ||
Ghosts | Rim Visuals [71] | |||||
Rock Me Amadeus | 2019 | Wake Up the Coma | Jason Alacrity, [72] Jason Jensen [73] | Jason Alacrity, Colin Pierce | Featuring Jimmy Urine. | |
Arbeit | 2020 | Henrik Bjerregaard Clausen [74] | Starring Kim Sønderholm. | |||
Title | Label | Release date | Format | Tracks included |
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Doctor Death's Vol. III [75] | C'est La Mort | 1989 | LP, CS | "Concussion" |
Black Box – Wax Trax! Records: The First 13 Years [76] | Wax Trax! | 1994 | CD | "Digital Tension Dementia" |
Tyranny Off the Beat Vol. IV [77] | Off Beat | 1997 | CD | "Electrocution (Rough Mix)" |
Electropolis Volume II [78] | Metropolis | 2000 | CD | "Masterslave (Wumpscut RMX)" |
Subout [79] | Basic Unit Productions | 2000 | CD | "Epitaph" |
Wilhelm Anton "Bill" Leeb is an Austrian-Canadian electronic musician and record producer. He is best known for being a founding member of the industrial music group Front Line Assembly and Delerium. Additionally, Leeb is known for his work with groups Noise Unit, Intermix, Skinny Puppy, Synæsthesia, Cyberaktif, Equinox, Fauxliage and Pro>Tech.
Front Line Assembly (FLA) is a Canadian electro-industrial band formed by Bill Leeb in 1986 after leaving Skinny Puppy. FLA has developed its own sound incorporating elements of electronic body music and electro-industrial. The band's membership has rotated through the years, including Michael Balch, Rhys Fulber, and Chris Peterson, all of whom are associated with several other acts.
Tactical Neural Implant is the sixth full-length studio album by electro-industrial artists Front Line Assembly. Third Mind Records originally released it in 1992 on both compact-disc and LP formats. The album has also been issued by Roadrunner in a two-disc set that includes the Millennium album.
Caustic Grip is the fifth full-length studio album by Front Line Assembly, originally released on Third Mind Records in Europe and on Wax Trax! Records in the United States in 1990.
Hard Wired is the eighth full-length studio album by Canadian electro-industrial band Front Line Assembly, released in 1995.
Noise Unit is a Canadian industrial band, founded by Bill Leeb of Front Line Assembly as a side project. The band has seen several changes in line-up, with Bill Leeb being the only permanent member.
[FLA]vour of the Weak is the ninth full-length studio album by industrial music group Front Line Assembly, released in November 1997 by Off Beat.
Artificial Soldier is the thirteenth full-length studio album by Vancouver industrial band Front Line Assembly, released in 2006. This is the first Front Line Assembly album to feature new member Jeremy Inkel.
Epitaph is the eleventh full-length studio album by Vancouver industrial band Front Line Assembly, released in 2001.
Re-Wind is a remix double album by Vancouver industrial band Front Line Assembly, released in 1998. All tracks were originally recorded for the band's previous studio album [FLA]vour of the Weak. The band's longtime mixer, Greg Reely, had been absent on the original album and was brought back in on Re-Wind; therefore, disc one sees the band remixing itself with Reely's help. Disc two presents remixes by other artists.
Total Terror is the second of two self-released cassette tapes by industrial music band Front Line Assembly. At this point, Bill Leeb was the band's only dedicated member, with some help from Rhys Fulber.
Gashed Senses & Crossfire is the fourth full-length studio album by Canadian industrial artist Front Line Assembly. The song "Shutdown" features a clip of dialogue taken from the beginning of the 1987 film Hamburger Hill.
The Initial Command is the first full-length studio album released by Canadian industrial band Front Line Assembly, released in 1987 through Belgian label KK.
Fallout is a remix album by Vancouver industrial band Front Line Assembly, released in 2007. Initially announced as an EP, it is a collection of nine remixes by both the band themselves and other artists as well as three previously unreleased tracks.
Improvised Electronic Device is the fourteenth full-length studio album by Vancouver industrial band Front Line Assembly, released in 2010.
Echogenetic is the fifteenth full-length studio album by Vancouver industrial band Front Line Assembly, released on July 9, 2013. It was well received both by critics and fans and charted in German and US charts. Critics commented on the band's return to a purely electronic approach and on the dubstep influence on the album. Front Line Assembly toured extensively in Europe and North America in support of this album and remix follow-up Echoes, which included a tour with vocalist and band leader Bill Leeb's former band Skinny Puppy. This was the last studio album to feature Jeremy Inkel before his death in 2018.
Echoes is a remix album by Industrial band Front Line Assembly. It was released on May 13, 2014 through Metropolis.
Reclamation is a compilation album by Vancouver industrial band Front Line Assembly, released in 1997. It was re-released on July 30, 2007 through Polish label Metal Mind.
Monument is a compilation album by Canadian industrial band Front Line Assembly, released in 1998. It was re-released on July 30, 2007 through Polish label Metal Mind. The track "Monument" appeared in its original version on the 1993 album Phaze Two of Bill Leebs and Rhys Fulbers side project Intermix. The booklet of the 2007 re-release contains an outline of the band history.
Holon is the only album by electro-industrial and drum and bass band Equinox, released in 1998 by Hypnotic. Equinox was a side project of Canadian industrial musicians Bill Leeb and Chris Peterson of Canadian industrial band Front Line Assembly.