''Gashed Senses & Crossfire'' is the fourth full-length studio album by Canadian industrial artist

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

. The song "Shutdown" features a clip of dialogue taken from the beginning of the 1987 film ''

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''.

Release

In October 2019, Canadian label

Artoffact Artoffact Records is a Canadian/ Icelandic record label that concentrates on industrial, postpunk, heavy metal, and electronic music. The label was founded in 1999. History In 1997, Jacek Kozlowski laid the groundwork for Artoffact Records. I ...

started a crowdfunding campaign in order to obtain the album licenses and to re-release the album on vinyl on May 4, 2020.

Singles

"Digital Tension Dementia"

# "Digital Tension Dementia" (7:15) # "Vexation" (8:23) # "Big Money (Remix)" (4:15) "Digital Tension Dementia" is the first single by Front Line Assembly and the first single taken from ''Gashed Senses & Crossfire''. The single was released in November 1988 on Third Mind in the

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and

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and in the

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via

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. It was their first

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chart appearance in the U.S.

"No Limit (Damaged Goods Remix)"

# "No Limit (Damaged Goods Remix)" (7:38) # "Lethal Compound (Harmful If Swallowed Mix)" (11:08) # "No Limit (Spontaneous Combustion Mix)" (5:27) "No Limit" is the second single from the album.

Reception

'' listed "Digital Tension Dementia" in its single reviews in the ''recommended'' section, which signifies "records with potential for significant chart action".

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 and Deleri ...

– production, vocals, electronic instruments * Michael Balch – production, engineering (1, 6, 7), electronic instruments

Additional musicians

* Dave Hall – bass (9)

Technical personnel

* Anthony Valcic – engineering (1, 6, 7) * Dave Coppenhall – artwork

Chart positions

Digital Tension Dementia

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gashed Senses and Crossfire Front Line Assembly albums 1989 albums Wax Trax! Records albums Third Mind Records albums Roadrunner Records albums