''Tenebrae Vision'' is the only album of

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band Cyberaktif, which consisted of

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and Dwayne R. Goettel of

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and former Skinny Puppy member

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. Additionall ...

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. For Cyberaktif, Leeb is credited as Wilhelm Schroeder, the stage name he used while in Skinny Puppy. The album was released in 1991 through

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and features

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industrial band

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Background

''Tenebrae Vision'' was accompanied by two singles, ''Nothing Stays'' and ''Temper'', both of which were released in 1990 and contain different mixes of the title tracks as well as non-album tracks. The track "Nothing Stays" was voted the sixteenth greatest industrial song of all time by COMA Music Magazine in their feature article ''101 Greatest Industrial Songs of All Time''. It appeared also in different versions on various compilation albums. According to cEvin Key, Cyberaktif is reminiscent of

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in the industrial music scene which the band members started off with. "Cyberaktif is ..the experience of discovering the whole electronic genre", said Key, " tis exploring the enthusiasm we once had for that genre." Bill Leeb described their work as "rehashing old things", but said, "it was different this time because we were a bit more established." About the collaboration with Blixa Bargeld, Leeb reported that he and Key were fans of Einstürzende Neubauten and Bargeld happened to be in Vancouver just at the right time. With Bargeld being "an icon to us" and having "major attitude back then", Leeb remembered the collaboration being both "stressful" and "fun". ''Tenebrae Vision'' features samples from the films The Unholy,

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, and Halloween III: Season of the Witch.

Track listing

Personnel

Cyberaktif *

–

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, mixing,

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* Dwayne R. Goettel – assistant engineering, assistant mixing, sampler,

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–

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, production Additional musicians *

– vocals (4),

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(4), production (4) * Amy Sinner – assistant mixing, sampler, keyboard Technical personnel * Marc Ramaer – editing *

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– mastering

References

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