Caustic Grip
Front Line Assembly
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Resist | Front Line Assembly | 5:26 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Victim | Front Line Assembly | 5:07 | $0.69 | View In iTunes |
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Overkill | Front Line Assembly | 5:25 | $0.69 | View In iTunes |
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Forge | Front Line Assembly | 4:22 | $0.69 | View In iTunes |
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Provision | Front Line Assembly | 6:11 | $0.69 | View In iTunes |
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Force Fed | Front Line Assembly | 4:42 | $0.69 | View In iTunes |
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Iceolate CG | Front Line Assembly | 5:16 | $0.69 | View In iTunes |
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Threshold | Front Line Assembly | 5:14 | $0.69 | View In iTunes |
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Mental Distortion CG | Front Line Assembly | 6:52 | $0.69 | View In iTunes |
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The Chair | Front Line Assembly | 3:29 | $0.69 | View In iTunes |
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Album Review
Front Line Assembly displayed an efficiency befitting of their music's machine-like nature when co-founder Michael Balch stepped aside in 1990 and part-time member Rhys Fulber seamlessly took his place beside Bill Leeb beginning with 1990's Caustic Grip album. Fulber's timing was also propitious in the sense that the previous year's Gashed Senses & Crossfire had exposed FLA to a larger audience and set the stage for their newly minted production team to operate its magic with utmost precision and multi-layered attention to detail on the eminent follow-up. The eye-opening results can be sampled in the infernal dance grooves and hyperactive beats energizing tracks like "Resist," "Overkill," and "Force Fed" (all of them sounding like Depeche Mode's worst nightmare), and yet their processed whispers and rasps weren't nearly as frightening as Leeb's serial killer croak on "Victim." On the other hand, he actually came close to singing for the first time on the abnormally sedate "Threshold," and the ratio of synthesized melodies per beat was shifted ever so slightly for the benefit of singles "Provision" and "Iceolate" — the latter even receiving the benefit of a music video and modest MTV rotations to support it. Above all else, perhaps, Caustic Grip helped Front Line Assembly make a definitive break from Leeb's previous legendary group, Skinny Puppy, by solidifying their standing as one of the most essential industrial groups of the '90s.
Customer Reviews
19 Years Later, Still Hard As Ever
Not surprisingly, iTunes got the album info wrong. This album was released in 1990 under the record label that built Industrial music in the U.S., Wax Trax. Despite the dated electronics, FLA's "Caustic Grip" easily puts to shame alot of the crap that passes for industrial music nowadays. This is FLA at its most raw and this is the album that shows you don't have to resort to electric guitar to be hard as nails. - Monty
This album is an electronic landmark!
This is one of the most incredibly overlooked albums in the electronic music world. It is a production giant. The sound design and personality of the album is incredible. An incredible combination of hypnotic rhythms, industrial soundscapes and simple but intelligent and powerful vocals. A MASTERPIECE of electronic musical composition.
Polar opposite of 'Tactical Neural Implant', but an instant classic
Bill Leeb's career in FLA has seen many evolutions in it's sound, but it was this album that concludes the 80's period of industrial/ebm and prepares it for the 1990's. Even with outdated hardware (multilayering Roland TB-303 for an example), this album is the precursor to Leeb's sound that fully develops throughout the 1990's.
Most of this album is indeed electronic (with the exception of the guitars on "Provision"), but it doesn't hold back from sonically blowing away your mind. Every track from front and back carries on the album coherently with no track that sounds alike, from the hard-driven "Resist", to the pounding beats and cynical samples of "The Chair" which is what I feel is the precursor to the next album 'Tactical Neural Implant'
This was my first FLA purchase, and like all great music it takes time to develop an ear and appreciation for what this underground masterpiece really is. This album will always have a place in my heart, along with it's polar opposite 'Tactical Neural Implant'.
If you happen to buy this album, and have a taste for heavy/electronic music, you will not be dissapointed.
Biography
Formed: 1986 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Cana
Genre: Electronic
Years Active: '80s, '90s, '00s
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Mindphaser | Tactical Neural Implant | 5:03 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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The Blade | Tactical Neural Implant | 5:50 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Gun | Tactical Neural Implant | 6:22 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Outcast | Tactical Neural Implant | 5:22 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Lifeline | Tactical Neural Implant | 5:08 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Remorse | Tactical Neural Implant | 5:46 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Justify My Love | The World's Greatest 80's Tribute to Madonna | 5:01 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Digital Tension Dementia | Gashed Senses & Crossfire | 4:47 | $0.69 | View In iTunes |
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- Genres: Rock, Music, Electronic, Industrial, Dance, Hard Rock
- Released: 1991
- ℗ 1992 The All Blacks B.V.
