Front Line Assembly - The Initial Command

Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Electro, Industrial
Year:
1987

Tracklist

The State 6:16 X
Insanity Lurks Nearby 6:10 X
Casualties 4:46 X
Ausgang Zum Himmel 7:14 X
Nine Times 6:27 X
Black March 5:59 X
No Control 6:37 X
Slaughter House 5:11 X

Versions

Title, FormatLabelCat#CountryYear
The Initial Command (CD, Album) KK Records KK 006 Belgium 1988
The Initial Command (LP, Album) KK Records, KK Records KK 001, KK001 Belgium 1987
The Initial Command (Cass, Album) ROIR (Reachout International Records) A-187 US 1990
The Initial Command (CD, Album, RE) Third Mind Records TMD 9175 US 1992
The Initial Command (CD, Album, RE) Cleopatra CLP 0062-2 US 1997
The Initial Command (CD, Album, RE, Dig) Zoth Ommog CD ZOT 189 Germany 1997
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Reviews & Discussion

Review by DirtyDisco Sep 27, 2008

referencing The Initial Command, LP, Album, KK 001, KK001

I think this is one of FLA's better albums. Very dark and deep EBM, and some of the tracks sound Cabaret Voltaire-like almost, circa 'Crackdown' only deeper (at least in my opinion). The whole album is like a trip, but side 2 is noticeably a little more dancey. It's not as hard or fast as alot of other EBM stuff, but it's really a beautiful work of industrial music. "Black March" and "No Control" sort of forecast the harder stuff they would do closer to the nineties, and I don't know if fans of their later work would like this album, but it's still worth getting just for the overall futuristic and dark tone and mood the whole album sets, if not the music itself.
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