''Wake Up the Coma'' is the sixteenth full-length studio album by

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band

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. It was released on February 8, 2019 on CD,

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and digitally through

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Release and promotion

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of German

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and contains two remixes of the title track: one by Terence Fixmer and one by

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. The release date of the album was moved from October 2018 to February 2019. In December, the band announced the final release date of February 8, 2019. Chris Connelly,

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and

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would appear on the album as guests, the latter on a cover of Falco's "

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". In January 2019 the band revealed the album's tracklist. Two days before the album's release, a video for "Rock Me Amadeus" directed by Jason Alacrity premiered at Baeble Music. On December 2, 2020 Front Line Assembly released a video for the track "Arbeit" directed by Henrik Bjerregaard Clausen and starring Danish actor

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Themes

"'Eye on You' is definitely about the paranoia of our governments watching us .. but there’s a couple of songs that are about the complexities in relationships between people today as well", said vocalist

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in an interview with Release Magazine.

Track listing

Personnel

Front Line Assembly

– vocals, keyboards, producer *

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– keyboards, programming, producer, mixing (5, 9)

Additional musicians

Jared Slingerland Jared Slingerland (born January 16, 1984) is a Canadian guitarist and electronic musician based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is best known as a member of the electro-industrial band Front Line Assembly (FLA). History Early life Slingerlan ...

– additional production, additional programming (2, 4–12) * Sasha Keevill – additional production, additional programming (2, 4–12) * Craig Johnsen – additional programming (5, 7, 8, 11, 12) *

– additional programming (1) *

– lead vocals (3) *

– lead vocals (8) * Chris Connelly – lead vocals (12) * Ian Pickering – backing vocals (10) *

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– guitars (8, 12) * Jeff Swearengin – additional programming (4, 12) *

Jeremy Inkel Jeremy Michel Neville Inkel (8 February 1983 – 11 January 2018) was a Canadian electronic musician based in Vancouver. He was best known as a keyboard player and programmer for Left Spine Down and electro-industrial band Front Line Assembly as ...

– additional programming (9, 11)

Technical personnel

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– mixing (1–4, 6–8, 10–12), vocal recording *

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– artwork, design

Chart positions

References

{{Authority control Front Line Assembly albums 2019 albums Metropolis Records albums Albums with cover art by Dave McKean Albums produced by Rhys Fulber