''Total Terror'' is the second of two self-released cassette tapes by industrial music band

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Background

After the second demo cassette Michael Balch became a member of Front Line Assembly. It also paved the way for a release on a label since the band received offers from several labels to record an album.

Release

The album was mostly remastered and rereleased on CD in 1993 as ''Total Terror I'', and followed up by a companion collection of same-period demos, ''Total Terror II'', a year later. These have been collected into ''Complete Total Terror''. In Germany, both CDs were released 1993 by now defunct label Dossier. Polish label Mecanica issued vinyl editions of both albums in summer 2002, together with bonus tracks from other sessions and compilations. In 2004, Cleopatra reissued ''Total Terror I'' and ''Total Terror II'' in a two-CD package, with new cover art, under the title ''Complete Total Terror''. Despite its name, it does not include "Eternal". Cleopatra re-released the albums as part of a box set, ''Permanent Data 1986–1989'', on CD and digitally on August 19, 2022, with bonus tracks including "Eternal". All albums in the set were remastered by Jürgen Engler of German industrial metal group

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Original cassette track listing

''Total Terror I''

Most of the original cassette was later remastered and commercially released on CD in 1993 as ''Total Terror I'' (fully titled Total Terror Part I: Official Demos 1986) on

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and Dossier. It does not include "Eternal", which remains unreleased on CD or vinyl, but added three previously-unreleased bonus tracks from other sessions in 1986: "Freedom", "Distorted Vision" and "Cleanser". The German release gave some explanations about the production and the reason for the release on the back cover:

''Total Terror II''

''Total Terror II'', a collection of 1986–1987 remastered Front Line Assembly demos, was released on Cleopatra Records in 1994, fulfilling the promise latent in the title of the previous year's ''Total Terror I''. It included 13 previously-unreleased tracks:

Personnel

– remixing (Rerelease 1993), vocals *

– remixing (Rerelease 1993) *

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– remastering (Rerelease 2022)

References

{{Authority control Front Line Assembly albums 1986 albums 1993 albums