Front Line Assembly - The State

First song from the third album called: "The Initial Command"

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Music

Tags:

• Front
• Line
• Assembly
• The
• Initial
• Command
• State
• Bill
• Leeb
• Rhys
• Fulber
• Industrial
• EBM

[DIVISIONINCISION]

This is what legends are made of.

The best EBM when it first came out.

Reznor couldn't hope of doing anything like this.......

[aquamarinedream]

@bissia

This is not Electronic Body Music. You cant dance to this. If you could dance you'd get whiplash from head banging. Electro Industrial.

[reptilianism420]

@aquamarinedream you could totally dance to this! you just dont how to. trust, take at about 5 shots of 80 proof whatever, bump this track loud as fvck, and you will then know how to dance to this

[JanderVK]

I can dance to this shit. While I kick those cyber"goths" in their shins and make them drop their glowsticks.

[leet512]

@FawkesNation I know one specific grievance many have with Reznor is they feel he was an ungrateful wretch riding the coat-tails of early Skinny Puppy... Reznor would publically acknowledge Skinny Puppy as a major influence on him but simultaneously spit on Leeb... despite Leeb having worked with, and some say, significantly influencing the output of early Skinny Puppy

[leet512]

@FawkesNation Bill Leeb - "I think the only person he didn't slag was Al [Jourgensen of Ministry], and why? Because Al's the kind of guy where if you said something like that about him he'd come looking for you."

as far as I know ever since those interviews and the possibly fake apology there has been animosity between some of the fans of the one musician and the other musician... and between the musicians themselves

[leet512]

@FawkesNation Bill Leeb commented on the apology in a later interview:

Bill Leeb - "The worst thing about the Trent incident is the apology. I know he didn't write that. I think his manager wrote that. I think I have less respect for him sending that apology. If he didn't send it, I would have just thought that he was an asshole."

[leet512]

@FawkesNation Trent Reznor- "message about how shitty things are. Front Line Assembly is a textbook case of a band that---I can't listen to a fucking song, let alone an album. Just monotonous, boring uninspired bullshit. And they're far more traditional and far more exemplary of 'industrial' than NIN is."

Trent eventually issued an apology but I think Bill Leeb found out somehow that it was penned by Trent's manager.. which might have been John Malm Jr at the time but im not sure

[leet512]

@FawkesNation as far as I know the war between NIN and FLA began in March 1992... Trent Reznor was interviewed by Spin magazine and said the following:

Trent Reznor- "For every band that I think has something to say, like Ministry, or Meat Beat Manifesto, there's twice as many that have realized the formula for industrial music: repetitive 16th-note bass lines, snarling vocals-- usually unintelligible screaming about the horrible condition of the planet or some kind of doomsday"

[rexxarkana]

absolutely, indisputably EBM.

[jgg017]

I've seen some spectacular dancing to this music. It is not the current EBM poseur-

flavour, but it definitely was Embryo Body Music. :)

Always loved their sound - and I have almost all of their early vinyl.

[LySeRgIa2]

People are mentioning Reznor, and I have to say why even mention such mainstream trash as Trent Reznor? When this was released Trent hadn't yet fucked everything up with the project we all know as Nine Inch Nails...it didn't yet exist.

Skinny Puppy and Front Line Assembly are industrial, NIN shouldn't be in the same sentence, Trent is a media whore and music thief.