''The Initial Command'' is the first full-length studio album released by Canadian

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band

Front Line Assembly Front Line Assembly (FLA) is a Canadian electro-industrial band formed by Bill Leeb in 1986 after leaving Skinny Puppy. FLA has developed its own sound incorporating elements of electronic body music and electro-industrial. The band's members ...

, released in 1987 through Belgian label KK.

Release

Since the 1987 release of ''The Initial Command'', the album has been re-issued several times. American label

ROIR ROIR (pronounced "roar"), or Reachout International Records, is a New York City-based independent record label founded in 1979 by Neil Cooper. Background ROIR was founded the same year that the Sony Walkman launched, and initially, the label ex ...

released the album in 1990 on

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with a different cover. It was the first release of the album in the United States and the second Front Line Assembly album released by ROIR after the band's second album State of Mind. British label Third Mind followed in 1992 with a licensed CD version in the United States. Los Angeles-based

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's and German

Zoth Ommog Zoth Ommog Records was a German Industrial music record label which was owned by the parent label Music Research. The company was established by German music producer Andreas Tomalla (aka Talla 2XLC) in 1989 and later handed over to producer Torbe ...

's release in 1997 contained two new tracks and new cover art. This re-release incorrectly listed the second track "Core" as "Intelligence Dream" while the liner notes have the correct title. "Complexity" and "Core" appear to be new songs at the time of release. Cleopatra re-issued a remastered version of the album on September 3, 2022 on vinyl and with the two bonus tracks on CD.

Production

The music was recorded on a 4-track tape.

Track listing

Personnel

Front Line Assembly

Bill Leeb Wilhelm Anton "Bill" Leeb (born 21 September 1966, in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian-Canadian electronic musician and record producer. He is best known for being a founding member of the industrial music group Front Line Assembly. Additionally ...

– production, engineering, vocals * Michael Balch – production (1987 Release), mixing (1987 Release) *

Rhys Fulber Nowell Rhys Fulber is a Canadian electronic musician and producer. He is a member of Front Line Assembly and Delerium, along with Bill Leeb. He also records under his own name and under the name Conjure One. Biography Rhys Fulber was born in ...

(1987 Release 1, 3, 4) * Chris Peterson – mixing (1997 Re-release 1, 2)

Technical personnel

* Carylann Loeppky – cover art (1987 Release) * David Rosychuk – design (1987 Release), artwork (1987 Release)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Initial Command, The Front Line Assembly albums 1987 debut albums ROIR albums Cleopatra Records albums Zoth Ommog Records albums