Karma
Average Customer Review:
Audio CD (22 April, 1997)
list price: $16.98 -- our price: $13.99
(price subject to change: see help)
US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France

Editorial Review

The novelty was stripmined from ethnobeat pop long ago, and this skin-deep confection is surprising only in its lack of edge and invention. On the plus side, the melodies are textured and lush, the beats entrancing, and a parade of gifted singers--Kristy Thirsk, Jacqui Hunt, and Sarah McLachlan included--bill and coo impressively. Lead single "Euphoria (Firefly)" has spark and spirit, while "Enchanted" and "Duende" are strong vehicles for Thirsk and Camille Henderson respectively. --Jeff Bateman ... Read more

Reviews (163)

By far the best Delerium CD!
This CD is awesome!All of the songs are well done.My sister used to listen to them long ago and I never quite got into their music until recently.My favorite song is Remembrance, as it puts me in a trance and takes me away from this world for a while.I love it!

Karma~ Delerium
With this recording the transformation of Delerium was complete. Gone was the heavy sound that was prevelent on recordings such as Stone Tower and in was the easier listening sound of Poem, Chimera and the like. Karma also had the international smash hit silence and I think that it is natural progresion on the part of Delerium.There are so many good tracks on this album and Leeb and Fulber have recorded and produced a true master piece. The book-let is very nice with an amazing cover that fits the mood and style of the album and the vocalists picked to sing the songs are all very accomplished with Sarah McLachlan leading the way with their break through hit Silence.

Good for trance
I bought this album expecting something like Conjure One or their later album, "Chimera".Some songs I found very good, "Firefly" most notably, but the rest were rather peculiar world-type trance.It was not what I was looking for, but was nonetheless somewhat enjoyable.If you like trance-electronica-world music, this CD is for you.If you are looking for songs along the lines of "Truly" from Chimera or "Center of the Sun" on Conjure One, this album has perhaps three good songs along those lines, and the rest are not so great. ... Read more

Asin: B000005DCB
Subjects:  1. Alternative Dance    2. Alternative Pop/Rock    3. Ambient Pop    4. Club/Dance    5. Dark Ambient    6. House    7. Pop    8. Rock   

Tactical Neural Implant
Average Customer Review:
Audio CD (28 April, 1992)
list price: $17.98
US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France

Reviews (16)

sheer genius!
You will not be sorry.This is pure brilliance.Quintessential it is.The building of a song -- the foreplay leading to the climax -- FLA does this flawlessly -- each component, each layer, perfect and deliberate.These are beautifully crafted pieces.Other adjectives apply:magnificent, mesmerizing, exhilirating, intensely moving and fully satisfying -- satisfying but making us want MORE MORE MORE!!

Tactical Neural Implant~ Front Line Assembly
This is such an good industrial album, that I was sitting and listening to it and all the adjectives that I wanted to use seemed not good enough. However, if I have to put one then it has to be these, brilliant, astounding, stupendous and awesome. This is probably one of the best industrial albums of all time. The first track is good and then it just gets better and better. In fact the first track is not as good as the other ones and could have been replaced with another track. The book-let is ok but the lyrics are missing, but still it is an important release since it showed that inudtrial bands are tallented muisicians and can sing. Minphaser, Life Line, Guna are some of the best made industrial tracks ever with the intricate layers of sounds, bets and samples. The keyboard sounds are constantly amazing and this is an album not to be missed if one likes industrial music.

One of the best Industrial Dance albums ever
I own a great deal of FLA discography, but only had a cassette copy of this album for a while.Actually, this was the first FLA album turned on to me by my friend in Seattle.When I finally found a used copy of this CD (not easy to find or cheap), it was easy to understand why this album is not only FLA's best, but why it is one of the best Industrial Dance albums ever.Each song has a hard driving hypnotic beat,I could not stop myself from moving to it."Outcast" uses a sample of Hannibal Lector from "Silence of the Lambs" very effectively, and is probably my favourite FLA song.One thing TNI possesses that other FLA and Industrial albums lack is the simplicity.An uncomplicated beat and miminal noises create a sharper focus to the material.My only complaint is that the entire CD clocks in at about 45 minutes.I have listened to this album perhaps 100 times, because those 45 minutes go by awfully fast. ... Read more

Asin: B000007U3A
Sales Rank: 44357
Subjects:  1. Electro-Industrial    2. Industrial    3. Industrial Dance    4. Pop    5. Rock   

Semantic Spaces
Average Customer Review:
Audio CD (23 August, 1994)
list price: $15.98 -- our price: $13.99
(price subject to change: see help)
US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France

Editorial Review

Front Line Assembly enlists Kirsty Thirsk of the Rose Chronicles for a heavenly ambient house project. Trance that bounces with beauty and energy. --Jeff Bateman ... Read more

Reviews (50)

Best Delirium album IMO
I was first introduced to Delirium by my boyfriend (now husband) with Semantic Spaces and was blown away. He latter introduced me to the `old school' Delirium (which I absolutely loved) and some of the newer Delirium after Semantic Spaces (which I am not a huge fan of). In my opinion, no previous or following Delirium album is able to match this one. This is the best.

I love this album because it incorporates a melancholy tone, yet it's sexy and strong at the same time. The album takes you on a journey from the start to finish, meshing one song into another. It just all flows really well, not to mention the vocals are unique and captivating. I know people of all walks of life who have enjoyed this album when I played it for them; from the depressed gothic girl to the chipper sports fanatic. It's not as dark, hard and depressing as the `old school' stuff, yet not as mainstream as the newer stuff. It's a happy medium in my opinion, not too dark, not too poppy.

Semantic Spaces~ Delerium
Semantic Spaces can be seen as transitional album between the old and new delerium. It sounds nothing like the old delerium which was albums like Stone Tower, Euphoric and the like and sounds more like their later releases such as Karma, Poem and Chimera whilst not being nearly as light or dance friendly. The biggest difference between the old and new delerium is the fact that they asked Kristy Thirsk to write some lyrics and to sing with her "angelic vocals" (yes that is the term used in the book-let) and the end result is nothing short of being stupendous and astounding. I love the selection of sounds and one can tell that their equipment is much better and the keyboards used have better sounds then on previous recordings. I love the book-let and the pictures seem to have been chosen with greater care then on previous records.

sexy music!
From the moment I first heard this CD I loved it. Sends me into a beautiful trancelike mindspace. I've got other albums from Delerium, Enigma and Amethystium but none of them transport me where this CD does. Simply sexy music! ... Read more

Asin: B000005DBS
Subjects:  1. Alternative Dance    2. Alternative Pop/Rock    3. Ambient Pop    4. Dance Music    5. Dark Ambient    6. Pop    7. Rock   

Hard Wired
Average Customer Review:
Audio CD (14 November, 1995)
list price: $15.98 -- our price: $14.99
(price subject to change: see help)
US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France

Reviews (16)

Takes on almost an organic-like form
I actually give this 4.5 stars.
Infra Red Combat is right up there with my favorite `industrial' songs of all time. I love music that builds and builds into a mound of emotion and sound, and this song does just that. The whole album almost takes on an organic-like form. Every piece twists and grows through amazingly talented instrumentation, vocals and lyrics. I'm not even going to attempt to analyze every track or do a long drawn out comparison from previous albums, because I'm just not good at doing that. I will, however, tell you this is (in my opinion) Front Line Assembly's finest piece of work. I have listened to this album countless times from start to finish and it never fails to amaze me.

Hard Wired~ Front Line Assembly
Hard Wired being Front Line Assemblys 1995 release is a very heavy album that sounds like a mix between FLA, early ministry and parts Skinny Puppy.I love everything that Leeb records and I buy everything as well so this was not a choice. I simply had to get it.There are so many great tracks on this album, like track number 2, paralyzed, circuitry to mention a few. The cover art is a bit over the top and I have no idea what they intend to tell with this kind of art.I love the way they us vocie treatment and vocoder on this album and some of the sounds used sound similiair to TNI and the heavy guitars are awesome as well and sound like Revco, ministry and the like.

Much more impressive than I expected...
I'm not good with "labelling" music.When I was growing up, you either listened to "metal", "rap", "rock" or "pop", and that was pretty much it.Now there's a sub-classification for every CD in the world. So what is Front Line Assembly? "Goth-industrial"?How about "Spooky Dance Music"?Or if I was a real music critic I'd call them "Angst Driven Heavy Dub Electronic Post Pop Distortion Artists".That's great, and mighty creative to boot, but it doesn't tell you a ... thing about what FLA sounds like.The most accurate, or perhaps easiest, way to describe them to the uninitiated is an unholy fusion of Skinny Puppy, Ministry, Fear Factory and an angry Atari 2600.If you're a fan of any of the aforementioned bands (or liked abusing your old-school Atari), this band, and more specifically this album, is for you.Crunchy, razor-sharp guitars meet creepy vocal fx galore, a conglomeration of heavy HEAVY near-techno drum beats and about eight miles of deep bass.This CD demands to be played loud and WILL challenge your stereo system.All the tracks on this disc are good, and while some are weaker than others this is one of the few discs I can play all the way through without skipping songs.My personal faves are "Circuitry" (I bought the CD for this track), "Mortal" (very weird atmospheric instrumental), "Modus Operandi", "Barcode" and "Infra Red Combat" (... I assure you it's an awesome track).One word of note: Most people seem to feel that "Tactical Neural Implant" is the Grand Poobah of FLA albums.I don't really know about that since I don't have that disc, but I can say with all certainty that "Hard Wired" is one of the better CDs in any genre I've heard lately. While it is the first FLA CD I've purchased, it's label-defying sound has assured that it won't be the last. ... Read more

Asin: B000005OOZ
Sales Rank: 63940
Subjects:  1. Electro-Industrial    2. Industrial    3. Industrial Dance    4. Pop    5. Rock   

Spheres, Vol. 2
Average Customer Review:
Audio CD (11 November, 1997)
list price: $15.98
US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France

Reviews (12)

Spheres II: A continuation of classic Delerium
This is the second part to the Spheres' collection from Delerium and it delivers just as the first volume did. There are 6 songs all good length wise that continue the great journey that listeners started in part one. Again the 6 songs here would certainly make good music material for a sci-fic movie. This is Delerium at their best with Leeb and Fulber delivering 6 top-notch songs for the eager Delerium fans.

Pretty much the two standout songs on this album are Hypoxia with the intense industrial beats and Shockwave that sent delirios shivers down my spine. A must for any fan new or old of Delerium. Early Delerium lovers will enjoy immensely this classic CD.

Delerium's finest point in it's musical evolution
The one point that I wanna stress here is that this is the last album that Delerium made before they sold out to Nettwerk... they were peakin'... Semantic Spaces was cool just for the fact that it was new to delerium...But for those of you who are shoping around and stumbled onto this page, and if you are a fan of music that was intended to broaden your horizons, don't hesitate to get this or any album before it by Delerium... each song on Spheres II was created with a crescendo that will blast you out of orbit... and you'll love the ride.

My favorite Delerium album
I really feel that this album is getting a bad rap. I love everything delerium, and have almost all their albums. It seems that most people are rating based on the latest albums, which are no doubt good, but they are also rather conventional (for this type of music). Of course, being a tech geek, this may be biased, but spheres II is just the most hyper-space age album I've ever heard, and it is extremely relaxing and invigorating at the same time. I especially love the first few tracks on here, particularly Shockwave. The fact that this CD also has very few vocals appeals to me, since you can here ethereal female voices with many groups and genres. In short, I listen to Poem, Karma, and Semantic Spaces maybe every few weeks on my mp3 player, but this one several times a week. For space-age sound buffs and all techno lovers, this is definitely a great buy. ... Read more

Asin: B000001D63
Sales Rank: 142067
Subjects:  1. Alternative Dance    2. Alternative Pop/Rock    3. Ambient Pop    4. Club/Dance    5. Dark Ambient    6. House    7. Pop    8. Rock   

Implode
Average Customer Review:
Audio CD (04 May, 1999)
list price: $15.98 -- our price: $15.98
(price subject to change: see help)
US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France

Editorial Review

The incredibly prolific Bill Leeb returns with partner Chris Peterson for Front Line Assembly's 10th album, the follow-up to 1998's FLAvour of the Weak. Conceptually, Implode is nothing new--Leeb mails in the lyrics (mostly vague, nihilistic diatribes on the alienation and despair bred by technology and a violent world) and laces the disc with what-sci-fi-movie-is-that-from? samples. But musically, well, that's a different story. If FLAvour was too preoccupied with its crunchy drum & bass textures, Implode is eminently more listenable. In many ways, it harks back to the band's superlative 1991 disc, Tactical Neural Implant; Leeb actually sings in places rather than rely on his usual processed croaking, and the mix is cleaner, allowing individual synth melodies to have their space without being swallowed up by a volley of percussive blasts. Yes, there's a bit of heavy guitar, but it's used as an accent and often mixed way back. And the variety is refreshing: the lead single, "Prophecy," is an aggressive, dramatic dirge that recalls the band's Caustic Grip days; "Synthetic Forms" and "Silent Ceremony," with their Gregorian chants and oceanlike synth sounds, could easily be tracks on Leeb's Delerium side project; the near-ballad "Falling" throws in acoustic guitar; and "Unknown Dreams" even features some scratching! A rewarding listen and a fine return to form. --Steve Landau ... Read more

Reviews (43)

Implode~ Front Line Assembly
Bill Leeb is one of the most prolific artists out there and one would think that because of this he would produce several albums that are mediocre at best and terrible at worst. This is not the case and this 1999 release shows that he is a very inovative guy that changes the sound for each release. The sound for this can be said to be a mix back to the old days of FLA and sound at times like a mix between caustic grip and TNI. It also has a very heavy dose of techno, trance and electro and the guitar used it is used very effectively. There is not book-let and the cover art is very odd to say the least, but it is a very well produced record.

It's Average
I have to say, first of all..The reviewer who said that this makes all other electronic music sound simplistic is wrong. This is really about as simplistic as it gets. Other electronic musicians like Venetian Snares (Coincidentally also Canadian, like FLA..), that reviewer has never heard of obviously.

This CD, is my first FLA CD..probably my last too. It's not that it's bad, or doesn't sound good. The sound is pretty good, and the songs are well-structured for what it is. It sounds pretty atmospheric as well. But my main complaint against this CD, and this band, is that everyone regards them as "Gods" of Industrial/Electronica. They came out in 1985, and maybe then the music they were making was fairly advanced for the time..but you'd think they'd evolve with the times too. Other electronic musicians, such as Venetian Snares, Autechre and Merzbow, although they are pretty different, to eachother and this, make intense electronic music. Those musicians/bands really demonstrate how easy and simplistic this is.

Another thing is, FLA are more Dance-Orientated..like on songs "Fatalist", "Torched" and "Machine Slave" especially. Their music is pretty soft, and easy to listen to for a casual fan of electronic music. The vocals in the songs also remind me alot of Godflesh. They're a highlight in most songs on this Album.

Really, if you are looking for in-depth electronic music, look elsewhere. Try Venetian Snares, Autechre or Merzbow if you want intense, intricate, complex and intelligent electronic music. But if you like atmospheric dance music and simplistic song arrangements, then go ahead and buy this. I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

Personally, i think it's average. And a little too easy to listen to..

Nawt awful at all!
This is by far THE best FLA release to date! (in my opinion of course). I'm not a huge FLA fan, but if you like industrial music or ebm, you simply must add it to your collection. I like it because it's DARK! layer after layers of darkness - dark samples, dark beats, dark synth melodies, dark sequences. For the Delerium and Conjure One fans out there, the music style isn't quite as accessible...but if you open your mind a little, I think you'd enjoy it too.

"Synthetic Forms", "Falling", "Torched" and "Silent Ceremony" are my favorite tracks on this album...and are perfect stylistic examples of what attracts me to FLA the most. But hey!...it's all good really! BUY it and feel good about it!
... Read more

Asin: B00000IKJ4
Subjects:  1. Electro-Industrial    2. Industrial    3. Industrial Dance    4. Pop    5. Rock   

Poem
Average Customer Review:
Audio CD (31 July, 2001)
list price: $17.98 -- our price: $13.99
(price subject to change: see help)
US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France

Features

• Extra tracks

Reviews (44)

Poem~ Delerium
With the release of Poem all traces of old Delerium were gone. What started on Semantic Spaces, and continued and intensified on Karma, saw its completion on this awesome and stuopendous release. Tracks such as Nature's Kingdom, Underwater, Aria and many others simply blew me away with their amazing sounds, lyrics and yes even the vocals were better then on previos recordings. Natures Kingdom is my all time favorite track up till now and I love the lyrics and they remind me of being in love and how important this track was to me at the time and still does. Another track that signaled a change was underwater. Here Delerium have adapted a sound that reminds one of trance, techno and a bit of electro music. One can only wonder what the next album after both this and Chimera will sound like.

Moderately OK instrumentals, but really lyric-focused
The vocals are definitely the strength on this release.While the rhythms and lyrics aren't pop, the guest vocalists are.And though the gist of the music remains techno-ambient and new-agey, the singing makes the whole release sound more pop-friendly than any previous Delerium release.This is especially evident in the higher number of vocal tracks versus purely instrumental.

While I like the pop/techno-ambient blend myself, fans of earlier Delerium will notice the distinct change in style and possibly be disappointed.

Really, the lyric tracks are absolutely divine.The voice-work for each one soars and dips and fades and echoes through the instruments.The words themselves are haunting poetry.

Underwater, Fallen Icons, Innocente, and Nature's Kingdom are very evocative of nature--ocean, forest, stone...little chirping birds and furry woodland creatures.Daylight is strong and rather singular as the only male main vocalist on a release rife with female singers.Fallen Icons makes me cry, so full of yearning yet oddly violent in its wordchoice and metaphor; the lasting impression is of a weary huntress running through a desolate, winter-trapped forest after her elusive prey.Actually, all of the lyrics tend toward these contradicting images of battle/struggle, and tender emotions.Very real in their complexity, while simple enough to resonate on more basic levels, too.

Change of Styles Complete for Delerium
And so it was that 'Poem' heralded the completion of the change in direction and style for Delerium. Gone were the dark, eerie, sharpe and solid ambient beats that made Delerium what it is today. It was replaced by a softer duller trance rythm that were sung by guest female vocalists. It was Delerium that made Sarah McLachlan famouse in her rendition of the hit Silence (which is a great song whatever variation it is played in).

Innocente, Aria and A Poem for Byzantium would become hits for Delerium and recive some radio time and were remixed and became popular with mainstream music buffs. Most of the other songs are dry and lack the strength of early Delerium songs.

Early Delerium fans may be disappointed with this album as was I alittle. It is a passable album for the songs I mentioned positively. Silence and A Poem For Byzantium were my favourites of this album. ... Read more

Asin: B00005IC1M
Sales Rank: 3255
Subjects:  1. Alternative Dance    2. Alternative Pop/Rock    3. Ambient Pop    4. Dark Ambient    5. Pop    6. Rock   

Millennium
Average Customer Review:
Audio CD (11 October, 1994)
list price: $17.98 -- our price: $17.98
(price subject to change: see help)
US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France

Editorial Review

Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber add aggressive guitars to their considerable armory of instruments to create an album of striking power and subtlety. They give full reign to their heavy metal influences on songs such as "Vigilante" and "Division of Mind," with angry guitar riffs and live-sounding programmed drums. However, the band's characteristically dark synthesizer atmospherics are still present, on tracks such as "This Faith" and the haunting "Sex Offender." Lyrics focus mostly on societal ills and technological doomsday. The songwriting is strong, with solid choruses in the title track as well as the brilliantly apocalyptic "Surface Patterns. "Victim of a Criminal" is a bold merging of Front Line Assembly's sinister power with the vocals of rapper David Hansen of the band P.O.W.E.R. --Mark McCleerey ... Read more

Reviews (20)

Millennium~ Front Line Assembly
When I first heard this album back in 1994, I did not like it all. I was expecting Tactical Neural Implant part two. However, later on in life and with a much broader palate for music I must say that I love it. It was a stroke of genius to add the layer of guitars and I love the hard edged sound which sounds like a mix between Ministry, FLA, Die Krupps and even Front 242. The cover is a very odd thing that does not look like anything at all and the text is not all that great. The lyrics are interesting and they make up for the not so great vocals with plenty of energy and a tremendous tallent to make cross over music. The guitar layer is amazing and add a brutal edge to an already grimm sound. FLA show on this album that they can mix and match their sound and still be able to create amazing music.

Their best in my opinion
This review comes from someone who doesnt listen to Front Line Assembly religiously. I've owned Tactical Neural Implant, Caustic Grip and even Civilization. I didn't like any of them! It is my opinion that this album is their best. Not just because of the guitar, but that helps. The songs on this album are all worthy of repeating over and over. The melodies clash very well with the guitars. Front Line needed to do this on one of their albums to show that they can make a guitar-layden electronic album that is actually good! Songs like Liquid Separation and Millenium rock so hard and kick so much ass. As far as the rest of their discography goes, the mostly electronic stuff, I find it boring. The real masters of original EBM electronic music is and always will be Front 242. That band is the real deal and everything from them kicks ass and proves that you dont really neeed FLA. But I do love this album and if you were going to get one album from them I would say get this one. Nuff said

FLA-never predictable
I've been a fan of FLA for quite sometime now, and I'm never dissapointed. Perhaps it's because I never get bored with their music. FLA is probably the most diverse of anyone else I've listened to. I never know what to expect from them. This band can do almost any type of music they decide, and on this album they've proven that they can do heavy metal as well. Quite nicely I might add. This album seems to be surrounded by controversy. I hear things like "It doesn't flow from beginning to end" or "too much metal, FLA should stick to electronic industrial" but you know what, I believe that's what makes Front Line so great is that they always experiment. They always try new things. They stay diverse and unpredictable. They've done everything from "Plasticity" to softer Delerium. They've created music for almost every possible mood. Using guitars to create a heavy metal approach was not a bad idea at all. Infact I think they do heavy metal here better than most heavy metal bands. To tell you the truth I don't even care for most metal, but I like this album very much. Pantera, Metallica, they suck. Give FLA a try. This album is worthy of 4 and a half stars at least. In my opinion 2nd best after Tactical Neural Implant. This albums only weak point is track six, "Victim of a Criminal" and I only say that because I don't care for rap. But as I said before, FLA has done almost every type of music. All they have left to do now is country, but let us prey to the powers above that they don't sink to that. ... Read more

Asin: B000000H6J
Subjects:  1. Electro-Industrial    2. Industrial    3. Industrial Dance    4. Pop    5. Rock   

Cryogenic Studios
Average Customer Review:
Audio CD (11 August, 1998)
list price: $15.98
US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France

Reviews (2)

Sweet Music
Ever play video games?Shut off the sound and put this on.This music is intense!I work to it often and my roommate keeps on stealing it from me to listen to in class.If you like Delerium or Front Line Assembly it is amust.

Excellent CD.Period.
This album is a piece of electronic perfection!It's also a great album to introduce electronica/industrial/drum+bass/ambient music to uninitiated ears!Also, for any FLA fans, this is also a good introduction to thevarious side projects of Leeb, Fulber and Peterson.Pretty much everysingle track on this album is very good, but "The Flood" bySynaesthesia is just incredible; I would by the album just for that track! So, all in all, this CD is an excellent (and permanent) addition to mymusic collection! ... Read more

Asin: B000009ONE
Sales Rank: 74813
Subjects:  1. Dance Music    2. Electro-Industrial    3. Industrial    4. Industrial Dance    5. Pop   

Epitaph
Average Customer Review:
Audio CD (09 October, 2001)
list price: $15.98 -- our price: $15.98
(price subject to change: see help)
US | Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France

Reviews (36)

Frontline Assembly's best.
This album is absoultely amazing. Hands down, Frontline Assembly's best. It's a rather diverse album, with some songs that could be described as agressive and angry (Backlash), some futuristic and mechanical (Dead Planet), and some that are just downright beautiful(Everything Must Perish). Epitaph's musical diversity makes it perfect music for any mood. I have most Frontline Assembly albums and this one get the most play (Civilization and Tactical Neural Implant following closely behind). If you like Industrial, EBM, or just like Frontline Assembly, pick this album up! You won't regret it.

Epitaph~ Front Line Assembly
Being a Bill Leeb fanatic I bought this album as soon as it came out in the stores and yes it is another awesome recording from one of the most prolific artists out there. Epitaph sounds like some pinches from TNI, some from Millenium and some from caustic grip and the end result is nothing short of absolute brilliance. I love this kind of music and I find it to be quite familiar and soothing.I love the use of voice treatment and vocoder on this album and that keyboard sounds are all nice. The book-let is well done with clear lyrics and legible font. As for the cover art, well it looks like old industrial waste and that is kind of odd for a cover for a cd.Still this is a truly amazing recording once again from Fulber and Peterson.

Another great FLA CD
I am not a die-hard FLA fan. Hell!...a year ago, I couldn't stand 'em. But please don't let that influence your take on my review as they somehow've seemed to find their way into my cd collection in fanatic numbers.

True to FLA's style, this is very dark - sometimes downright creepy - which I think is why I like it so much (scratches head). 2nd or 3rd to Implode (my fav) and FLAvour of the Week (very good also) - just outranking Tactical Neural Implant by shear electronic innovation. What about Civilization you say? Eh...it's good too, but in it's own accord.

I'm listening to Epitaph now in fact...I am amazed by the programming that went into these songs! "Krank It Up" (altho, not one of my favorite tracks), for example, has this super-hyperactive-metamorphic (?) sequence near the end that gets you standing on your seat. That's great and all, but what I really like are the dark atmospheres portrayed in almost every track! "Everything Must Perish" and "Existance" are my favorite tunes on this CD...and are perfect stylistic examples of what attracts me to FLA the most.

Even tho there are minimal-to-none metal guitar sounds (bonus), this is Industrial to the core! From creepy atmospheres to pulsating beats to squeeky stabbing sequences, this is a must have for anyone who likes industrial, FLA-curious, or even ebm enthusiasts (like me). Don't just "aquire" it, BUY the CD!! It's well worth your hard earned cash... ... Read more

Asin: B00005O853
Sales Rank: 28603
Subjects:  1. Electro-Industrial    2. Industrial Dance    3. Pop    4. Rock