Hard Wired

by Front Line Assembly

Hard Wired cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 14 November 1995
  • Label: Metropolis
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 1:02:10
  • Community rating: 3.44/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Canadian industrial pioneers incorporated notably heavier, highly distorted electric guitar riffs into their signature, aggressive EBM synthesizer sequencing. Bill Leeb's heavily processed vocals guide sprawling, highly cinematic soundscapes deeply rooted in cyberpunk and dystopian science-fiction themes. The remarkably dense, pulsating production is universally regarded as an absolute creative peak of the 1990s electro-industrial genre.

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic, cyberpunk

Tracklist

  1. Neologic Spasm (5:51)
  2. Paralyzed (5:30)
  3. Re-Birth (5:19)
  4. Circuitry (5:55)
  5. Mortal (5:42)
  6. Modus Operandi (5:47)
  7. Transparent Species (7:15)
  8. Barcode (6:11)
  9. Condemned (5:51)
  10. Infra Red Combat (8:49)

Credits

  • Front Line Assembly - primary artist
  • Devin Townsend - guitar [guitars], electric guitar guest
  • Bill Leeb - written-by, performer [electronic execution]
  • Rhys Fulber - written-by, performer [electronic execution]

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