Founding Members: Bill Leeb, Rhys Fulber.
Line-up Past/Present: Michael Balch, Chris Peterson, Jeff Swearengin, Jeremy Inkel, Jared Slingerland
Genre: Industrial, Electro, EBM.
Biography:
Front Line Assembly is a Canadian electro-industrial band formed by Bill Leeb in 1986 after leaving Skinny Puppy. Influenced by early electronic and industrial acts such as Cabaret Voltaire, Portion Control, D.A.F., Test Dept, SPK, and Severed Heads, FLA has developed its own sound incorporating elements of electronic body music (EBM). The band’s membership has rotated through several members over the years, including Rhys Fulber and Michael Balch who are both associated with several other acts.
Since their inception, the group have produced over a dozen studio albums and EPs, several of which have charted on Billboard’s Top Dance/Electronic Album chart. The albums “Tactical Neural Implant” and “Hard Wired” are two of the group’s most successful records, the former being considered a classic among industrial music fans. They have also produced soundtracks for video games such as Quake III: Team Arena (a collaboration with Sonic Mayhem) and “AirMech”. Their most recent studio album was “Wake Up the Coma”, released in 2019.
Over the years, the band’s name has sometimes been published as “Front Line Assembly” and sometimes as “Frontline Assembly”.
Albums:
• The Initial Command (1987)
• State of Mind (1988)
• Corrosion (1988)
• Gashed Senses & Crossfire (1989)
• Caustic Grip (1990)
• Tactical Neural Implant (1992)
• Millennium (1994)
• Hard Wired (1995)
• [FLA]vour of the Weak (1997)
• Reclamation (1997)
• Monument (1998)
• Implode (1999)
• Explosion (1999)
• Epitaph (2001)
• Civilization (2004)
• Artificial Soldier (2006)
• Improvised Electronic Device (2010)
• Airmech (2012)
• Echogenetic (2013)
• Warmech (2018)
• Wake Up the Coma (2019)
• Mechanical Soul (2021)you
EPs:
• Digital Tension Dementia (1988)
• No Limit (Damaged Goods Remix) (1989)
• Toxic (1991)
• The Blade (1992)
• Mindphaser (1992)
• Colombian Necktie (1998)
• Fatalist (1999)
• Vanished (2004)
• Angriff (2010)
• Shifting Through The Lens (2010)
LINKS:
Homepage: www.frontlineassembly.com
Bandcamp: frontlineassembly.bandcamp.com
Spotify: open.spotify.com/fla
Youtube: youtube.com/FLA