Front Line Assembly discography

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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.

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Front Line Assembly discography
Studio albums17
EPs1
Soundtrack albums2
Live albums3
Compilation albums13
Tribute albums5
Singles32
Music videos10
Demos2
Remix albums5
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Demos

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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]
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Studio albums

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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
  • Released: January 1988[3]
  • Label: Dossier, ROIR, Third Mind, Cleopatra
  • Formats: LP,[3] CS[5]
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
1990 Caustic Grip
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Third Mind, Wax Trax!, Roadrunner
  • Formats: CD, LP, CS[9]
1992 Tactical Neural Implant
  • Released: April 28, 1992[10]
  • Label: Third Mind, Apollon International, Roadrunner
  • Formats: CD
Tactical Neural Implant sold more than 70,000 copies.[11]
1994 Millennium
  • Released: October 1, 1994[12]
  • Label: Roadrunner, Apollon International, Metal Mind
  • Formats: CD
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
  • Released: November 3, 1997
  • Label: Off Beat, Energy, Metropolis, Synthetic Symphony
  • Formats: CD, LP (re-release 2015)[15]
1999 Implode
  • Released: April 26, 1999
  • Label: Metropolis, Zoth Ommog, Energy
  • Formats: CD, LP
2001 Epitaph
  • Released: October 9, 2001[16]
  • Label: Metropolis
  • Formats: CD, LP (re-release 2015)[17]
2004 Civilization
  • Released: January 20, 2004[18]
  • Label: Metropolis, Synthetic Symphony
  • Formats: CD
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
  • Released: June 20, 2006[20]
  • Label: Metropolis
  • Formats: CD, LP (re-release 2016)[21]
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
  • Released: July 9, 2013[26]
  • Label: Metropolis, Dependent
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
Reached No. 19 on Billboard's Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart[27] and the Heatseekers Albums chart.[28]
2019 Wake Up the Coma
  • Released: February 8, 2019
  • Label: Metropolis
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
Reached no. 40 on Billboard's Independent Albums chart[29] and no. 15 on the Heatseekers Albums chart.[30]
2021 Mechanical Soul
  • Released: January 15, 2021[31]
  • Label: Metropolis
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
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Live albums

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1989 Live
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: Third Mind
  • Formats: LP
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
  • Released: September 16, 1996
  • Label: Off Beat, Metropolis, Energy
  • Formats: CD
Double live album. Also released in a limited edition box set with VHS.
2015 Kampfbereit
  • Released: April 7, 2015
  • Label: MVD Visual
  • Formats: DVD
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Compilation albums

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1988 Convergence
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: Third Mind, Wax Trax!
  • Formats: CD, CS[32]
Compilation of Corrosion and Disorder with some unreleased tracks.
1993 Total Terror I
  • Released: 1993
  • Label: Cleopatra, Dossier
  • Formats: CD
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
  • Released: 1993
  • Label: Cleopatra, Dossier
  • Formats: CD
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
  • Released: November 21, 1995
  • Label: Cleopatra, Off Beat, Energy, Synthetic Symphony
  • Formats: CD
New material plus tracks from Corrosion and Disorder.
1997 Reclamation
  • Released: October 1, 1997[33]
  • Label: Roadrunner, Metal Mind
  • Formats: CD
Singles compilation.
1998 The Singles: Four Fit
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Zoth Ommog
  • Formats: CD
Compilation of previously released singles Virus, Iceolate, Provision and Mindphaser.
Monument
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Roadrunner, Metal Mind
  • Formats: CD
Singles compilation.
Cryogenic Studios
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Cleopatra, Zoth Ommog
  • Formats: CD
Compilation with tracks from Front Line Assembly and side projects Delerium, Equinox, Pro>Tech and Synæsthesia, partly previously unreleased.
1999 Explosion
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: Off Beat
  • Formats: CD
Singles compilation composed from tracks of the singles Circuitry, Plasticity, Colombian Necktie and Comatose.
2001 Cryogenic Studio, Vol. 2
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Cleopatra
  • Formats: CD
Compilation with tracks from Front Line Assembly and side projects Delerium, Equinox, Pro>Tech and Synæsthesia, partly previously unreleased.
2004 Complete Total Terror
  • Released: 2004
  • Label: Cleopatra
  • Formats: CD
Two-disc compilation of Total Terror I and Total Terror II demo material.
2005 The Best of Cryogenic Studio
  • Released: 2005
  • Label: Cleopatra
  • Formats: CD
Two-disc compilation with previously released tracks from Cryogenic Studios and Cryogenic Studio, Vol. 2.
2022 Permanent Data 1986-1989
  • Released: August 19, 2022[2]
  • Label: Cleopatra
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Six-disc compilation that consists of the releases Total Terror I, Total Terror II, State of Mind, Corrosion, Disorder and Live with bonus tracks.
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Extended plays

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1988 Disorder
  • Released: May 1988[3]
  • Label: Third Mind, Wax Trax!
  • Formats: Vinyl EP[34]
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.

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Remix albums

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1996 The Remix Wars: Strike 2
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Off Beat, Cleopatra
  • Formats: CD, LP (re-release 2016)[35]
Remix collaboration with Die Krupps.
1998 Re-wind
  • Released: August 17, 1998
  • Label: Off Beat, Metropolis, Energy, Synthetic Symphony
  • Formats: CD, LP (re-release 2016)[21]
Two-disc album with remixed tracks of [FLA]vour of the Weak.
2007 Fallout
  • Released: April 24, 2007
  • Label: Metropolis
  • Formats: CD, LP (re-release 2016)[21]
Originally announced as an EP. Released as an album with three previously unreleased tracks and nine remixes.[36]
2014 Echoes
  • Released: May 13, 2014[37]
  • Label: Metropolis
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download[38][39][40]
2022 The Machinists Reunited Tour EP
  • Released: August 9, 2022
  • Label: Self-release
  • Formats: CD
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.
2025 Mechviruses
  • Released: February 7, 2025
  • Label: Artoffact
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
Remixed tracks of WarMech from Artoffact artists.
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Soundtracks

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2000 Quake III: Team Arena[41]
  • Released: December 18, 2000[42]
Expansion pack for Quake III Arena. Collaboration with Sonic Mayhem.
2012 AirMech
  • Released: November 13, 2012[43]
  • Label: Metropolis, Dependent
  • Formats: CD, digital download, LP (re-release 2014)[44]
2018 WarMech
  • Released: June 18, 2018[45]
  • Label: Artoffact
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
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Tribute albums

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1999 Virgin Voices: A Tribute to Madonna, Vol. 1
  • Released: March 23, 1999
  • Label: Cleopatra
Justify My Love
1999 We Will Follow: A Tribute to U2
  • Released: July 13, 1999[46]
  • Label: Cleopatra
New Year's Day Front Line Assembly with Tiffany.
2023 A Tribute To Rammstein
  • Released: August 25, 2023[47]
  • Label: Cleopatra
Deutschland
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To Front Line Assembly

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2003 Replicate 01: A Tribute to Front Line Assembly
  • Released: August 18, 2003[48]
  • Label: MoMT
  • Formats: CD, digital download[49]
First release on label MoMT Records.[50]
2010 Replicate 02: A Tribute to Front Line Assembly & Projects
  • Label: MoMT
  • Formats: Digital download[51]
Last release on label MoMT Records.[52]
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Singles

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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]
Molotov featuring Encephalon (Remix)
Molotov featuring s:cage + Famine + Lys Morke (Remix)[64] 2025
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Music videos

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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.[65]

Won "Best Alternative Video" at Much Music's 1992 Canadian Music Video Awards.[66]

The Blade Bill Morrison[67] Dean English
Laughing Pain - Rod Chong, Bill Morrison[67] Non-album track from The Blade single.
Millennium[68] 1994 Millennium Roadrunner Eric Zimmerman, Lon Magdich Marc Sayous Filmed in Seattle and Chicago.
Plasticity[69] 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[67]
Angriff 2010 Improvised Electronic Device Dependent Henrik Bauer[70] Bill Leeb, Chris Peterson, Jeremy Inkel, Jared Slingerland[70]
Blood 2014 Echogenetic Metropolis Rim Visuals[71]
Ghosts Rim Visuals[72]
Rock Me Amadeus 2019 Wake Up the Coma Jason Alacrity,[73] Jason Jensen[74] Jason Alacrity, Colin Pierce Featuring Jimmy Urine.
Arbeit 2020 Henrik Bjerregaard Clausen[75] Starring Kim Sønderholm.
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Compilation appearances

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Doctor Death's Vol. III[76] C'est La Mort 1989 LP, CS "Concussion"
Black Box – Wax Trax! Records: The First 13 Years[77] Wax Trax! 1994 CD "Digital Tension Dementia"
Tyranny Off the Beat Vol. IV[78] Off Beat 1997 CD "Electrocution (Rough Mix)"
Electropolis Volume II[79] Metropolis 2000 CD "Masterslave (Wumpscut RMX)"
Subout[80] Basic Unit Productions 2000 CD "Epitaph"
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