Total Terror

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Total Terror
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Demo album by
Front Line Assembly
Released1986 (remastered 1993)
RecordedGotham Studios (Rerelease 1993)
Genre Electro-industrial [1]
Label Self-release, Dossier / Cleopatra Records (Rerelease)
Front Line Assembly chronology
Nerve War
(1986)		Total Terror
(1986)		 The Initial Command
(1987)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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AllMusic (Total Terror, Pt. 1)Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
AllMusic (Complete Total Terror)Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]

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. [3]

Contents

Background

After the second demo cassette Michael Balch became a member of Front Line Assembly. It also paved the way for a release on a label since the band received offers from several labels to record an album. [4]

Release

The album was mostly remastered and rereleased on CD in 1993 as Total Terror I, and followed up by a companion collection of same-period demos, Total Terror II, a year later. These have been collected into Complete Total Terror.

In Germany, both CDs were released 1993 by now defunct label Dossier.

Polish label Mecanica issued vinyl editions of both albums in summer 2002, together with bonus tracks from other sessions and compilations. [5]

In 2004, Cleopatra reissued Total Terror I and Total Terror II in a two-CD package, with new cover art, under the title Complete Total Terror. Despite its name, it does not include "Eternal".

Cleopatra re-released the albums as part of a box set, Permanent Data 1986–1989, on CD and digitally on August 19, 2022, with bonus tracks including "Eternal". [6] All albums in the set were remastered by Jürgen Engler of German industrial metal group Die Krupps.

Original cassette track listing

Side 1
No.TitleLength
1."Total Terror"6:32
2."A Decade"5:00
3."Rebels In Afghanistan"5:15
4."Eternal"3:41
5."Developing Suicide"4:43
6."Black Fluid"2:57
Side 2
No.TitleLength
1."Falling There"4:26
2."All You Do"4:16
3."Seeing Is Believing"4:32
4."Empty Walls"4:44
5."Enemy Number One"4:13
6."On the Cross"5:53

Total Terror I

Most of the original cassette was later remastered and commercially released on CD in 1993 as Total Terror I (fully titled Total Terror Part I: Official Demos 1986) on Cleopatra Records and Dossier. It does not include "Eternal", which remains unreleased on CD or vinyl, but added three previously-unreleased bonus tracks from other sessions in 1986: "Freedom", "Distorted Vision" and "Cleanser".

The German release gave some explanations about the production and the reason for the release on the back cover: [7]

All the songs on this CD are the first ever recordings by Frontline Assembly. Original recordings were constructed in 1986, on nothing more than an eight track recording system. This is quite primitive by today's standards. The sound quality will not be as effective as our new recordings. However, the ideas are all there. We have decided to release Total Terror (unavailable release since 1986) due to popular demand, and to stop the bootlegging of Total Terror which we do not approve of. All of the songs have been re-mixed plus a few other songs which have never been released.

No.TitleLength
1."Total Terror"6:25
2."A Decade"5:01
3."Rebels In Afghanistan"5:14
4."Developing Suicide"4:42
5."Black Fluid"5:35
6."Falling There"4:28
7."All You Do"4:22
8."Seeing Is Believing"4:34
9."Empty Walls"4:45
10."Enemy Number One"4:20
11."On The Cross"5:52
12."Freedom"5:46
13."Distorted Vision"5:45
14."Cleanser"2:18
Total length:1.1 hours

Total Terror II

Total Terror II, a collection of 1986–1987 remastered Front Line Assembly demos, was released on Cleopatra Records in 1994, fulfilling the promise latent in the title of the previous year's Total Terror I. It included 13 previously-unreleased tracks:

Side 2
No.TitleLength
1."Assassination"5:57
2."Intensive Care Unit"5:05
3."Immobilized"4:11
4."They're Going to Kill Us" (Misspelled "There" on some versions)5:52
5."Stimulant Combat"6:10
6."Hatred by Society"4:11
7."Intruder"5:25
8."Facepuller"7:03
9."A.E.C. Krunch"6:22
10."Cro-Magnon"6:17
11."Guilty"2:24
12."Attack Decay"3:59
13."The Boneing"5:25
Total length:1.2 hours

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Jeffries, David. Front Line Assembly: Complete Total Terror > Overview at AllMusic. Retrieved July 8, 2014.
  2. ↑ Front Line Assembly: Total Terror, Pt. 1 > Overview at AllMusic. Retrieved July 8, 2014.
  3. ↑ Leeb, Bill (August 1992). "Front Line Assembly". Antocularis (Interview). Interviewed by A.C. Retrieved July 15, 2021.
  4. ↑ Leeb, Bill (August 1992). "Front Line Assembly". Antocularis magazine (Interview). Interviewed by A.C.
  5. ↑ van Isacker, Bernard (May 31, 2022). "4 earliest albums of Bill Leeb's Front Line Assembly reissued on double vinyl with bonus tracks". Side-Line.com. Retrieved December 5, 2023.
  6. ↑ van Isacker, Bernard (July 28, 2022). "Front Line Assembly team with Cleopatra Records for a 6cd box holding earliest recordings". Side-Line.com. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
  7. ↑ Front Line Assembly (1993). Total Terror I (Media notes). Berlin: Dossier. Back cover.


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