Frontline Assembly* – Artificial Soldier
| Label: | Metropolis – met 431 |
|---|---|
| Format: | CD, Album |
| Country: | US |
| Released: | |
| Genre: | Electronic |
| Style: | EBM, Industrial |
Tracklist
| 1 | Unleashed | 5:17 | |
| 2 | Lowlife | 5:30 | |
| 3 | Beneath The Rubble | 6:26 | |
| 4 | Decsention | 6:07 | |
| 5 | Buried Alive | 5:30 | |
| 6 | Dopamine | 6:31 | |
| 7 | Social Enemy | 5:23 | |
| 8 | Future Fail | 6:11 | |
| 9 | The Storm | 5:12 | |
| 10.1 | Humanity (World War 3) | 5:25 | |
| 10.2 | (silence) | 0:40 | |
| 10.3 | Fawnchopper | 7:35 |
Companies, etc.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Metropolis Records
- Copyright © – Metropolis Records
- Engineered At – Green Jacket Studios
- Mixed At – Green Jacket Studios
- Mastered At – Bernie Grundman Mastering
- Designed At – Hourglass
- Glass Mastered At – Cinram, Olyphant, PA – Z52899
- Pressed By – Cinram, Olyphant, PA
Credits
- Design, Illustration, Photography By – Dave McKean
- Engineer, Mixed By – Greg Reely
- Keyboards – Bill Leeb (tracks: 4, 5, 8 to 10), Chris Peterson (tracks: 1 to 9), Jeremy Inkel (tracks: 1, 3 to 5, 7 to 9), Rhys Fulber (tracks: 1 to 3, 6, 8, 10)
- Keyboards [Additional] – Rhys Fulber (tracks: 7)
- Mastered By – Brian 'Big Bass' Gardner*
- Producer – Bill Leeb, Chris Peterson (tracks: 1 to 9)
- Producer [Additional] – Jeremy Inkel (tracks: 1, 4, 8), Rhys Fulber (tracks: 3)
- Producer [Initial] – Jeremy Inkel (tracks: 3, 5, 7, 9), Rhys Fulber (tracks: 1, 2, 6, 8, 10)
- Programmed By – Chris Peterson (tracks: 1 to 9), Jeremy Inkel (tracks: 1, 3 to 5, 7 to 9)
- Programmed By [Additional] – Chris Peterson (tracks: 10), Rhys Fulber (tracks: 3)
- Vocals – Bill Leeb (tracks: 1 to 7, 10)
Notes
Design, illustration, and photography @ Hourglass.
Packaging: standard jewel case with a clear tray inside an O-card. 8 page booklet.
Track 4 should be correctly spelled "Descension".
Track 10 (13:39) contains a hidden track after 40 seconds of silence.
Made in the USA
© & ℗ 2006 Metropolis Records
Packaging: standard jewel case with a clear tray inside an O-card. 8 page booklet.
Track 4 should be correctly spelled "Descension".
Track 10 (13:39) contains a hidden track after 40 seconds of silence.
Made in the USA
© & ℗ 2006 Metropolis Records
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Text): 7 82388 04312 0
- Barcode (Scanned UPC-A): 782388043120
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 1): Z52899 4 MET 80431-2 01 M0S1
- Mastering SID Code (Variant 1): IFPI L909
- Mould SID Code (Variant 1): IFPI 2U7H
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 2): Z52899 4 MET 80431-2 02 M1S2
- Mastering SID Code (Variant 2): IFPI L909
- Mould SID Code (Variant 2): IFPI 2U7P
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 3): Z52899 4 MET 80431-2 02 M1S2
- Mastering SID Code (Variant 3): IFPI L909
- Mould SID Code (Variant 3): IFPI 2U3U
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 4): Z52899 4 MET 80431-2 02 M1S1
- Mastering SID Code (Variant 4): IFPI L909
- Mould SID Code (Variant 4): IFPI 2U7F
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 5): Z52899 4 MET 80431-2 02 M1S2
- Mastering SID Code (Variant 5): ifpi L909
- Mould SID Code (Variant 5): IFPI 2U7H
Other Versions (5 of 10)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Soldier (CD, Album) | indie ВИД, Metropolis | met 431 | Russia | 2006 | |||
| Artificial Soldier (CD, Album) | Moon Records (2), Soyuz Music | MR 2069-2, none | Ukraine | 2006 | |||
| Artificial Soldier (CD, Album, Unofficial Release) | Metropolis (12) | met 431 | Russia | 2006 | |||
| Artificial Soldier (10×File, AAC, Album, 128 kbps) | Metropolis | MET 431D | US | 2006 | |||
Recently Edited | Artificial Soldier (2×LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue) | Artoffact Records | AOF223 | Canada | 2016 |
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Reviews
This was mostly a great album, but it was marred by horrible mastering. This hindered the replay value, as it was fatiguing to listen to.- Edited 17 years agoFront Line Assembly, over the years, had steadily been on one of the most remarkable musical progressions of any act in the industry. It began on Millennium, as a hard, guitar-driven metal/industrial amalgamation that would spawn many similar groups (especially Hanzel Und Gretyl), and dissolved all the way down through Implode, Epitaph, and the unheralded masterpiece Civilization into a kind of euphoric, lethargic ethereal-industrial mixture. After Civilization, FLA had tested the waters so thoroughly and authoritatively that all they had left to do was start over.
That's what Artificial Soldier is. It is Front Line Assembly realizing that it has nothing left to do musically except fill its role and deliver one hell of a record. It's reminiscent of Metallica's journey in the 1980's from hard-line metal band, to progressive anthemic metal band, and back. Like that Black Album, every track on Artificial Soldier is an entity unto itself. Bill Leeb just has fun, making industrial the way he did all through the '80s, but with the technological fixation of Epitaph. The synths therefore don't run together in sound like they did during his earlier works, and Artificial Soldier stands up with the best of those pioneering works. Because it does not cover any new musical ground, like Civilization or Millennium did, it can hardly be considered a masterpiece, but it is one of FLA's strongest albums from start to finish; Artificial Soldier is purely and simply the latest in Bill Leeb's long line of industrial monsters.
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