Artificial Soldier
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| Studio album by Front Line Assembly | ||||
| Released | June 20, 2006 | |||
| Recorded | 2006 | |||
| Genre | Industrial, electro-industrial, drum and bass | |||
| Length | 65:51 | |||
| Label | Metropolis | |||
| Producer | Bill Leeb, Rhys Fulber, Chris Peterson | |||
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| AllMusic |    |
| Barcode | 3.9/10 |
| Metal Storm | Mixed |
| ReGen | |
| Release | 6/10 |
| Side-Line | 9/10 |
Artificial Soldier is an album by Vancouver industrial band Front Line Assembly, released in 2006. This is the first Front Line Assembly album to feature new member Jeremy Inkel.
The tour in North America in support of Artificial Soldier started before the album was released. The North American leg was originally scheduled for June and July 2006. However, due to difficulties with the company that supplied the tour bus the band was forced to cancel parts of the tour. They could only play about half of their planned shows in the United States, dates in New York and Canada were cancelled. At the show in Philadelphia the band announced that this would be their last show of the tour. Tour drummer Adrian White made a statement on the Side-Line forum: "Digger international who handled the bus rental has fucked us. We were lied to since we were told we had a bus until July 6th, which was bullshit. They had planned to leave us in Philly without a bus to do the rest of the tour. They, the driver and tour manager filled us in on the scam last night just before our Philly show leaving us with a couple hours to find transportation for 11 people and all of our equipment." In an interview with Side-Line right after the shortened North American tour vocalist Bill Leeb said that the band intended to make up for the cancelled dates after they would return from the European leg. Asked what conclusions he had drawn from this experience, Leeb responded: "I will never get on a bus without seeing a written contract stating that I have the bus from point A to B. Let's just say I have never been fucked by a bus company before." Supporting band Stromkern blamed the booking agency for the problems, suggesting "the booking agency [...] pocketed the deposits and has vanished off the face of the earth." In August and September Front Line Assembly continued their tour in Europe. While electronic music band and Dependent label mates Stromkern opened for Front Line Assembly on both legs,DJ? Acucrack was support act only for the North American leg and Rhys Fulber's project Conjure One was guest on a few US shows.
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