Artificial Soldier is an album

Album

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 by Vancouver

Vancouver

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 industrial

Industrial music

Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...

 band Front Line Assembly

Front Line Assembly

Front Line Assembly is a Canadian electro-industrial band formed by Bill Leeb in 1986 after leaving Skinny Puppy. Influenced by early Industrial acts such as Cabaret Voltaire, Portion Control, D.A.F., Test Dept, SPK, and Severed Heads, FLA has developed its own unique sound while combining...

, released in 2006. This is the first Front Line Assembly album to feature new member Jeremy Inkel

Jeremy Inkel

Germy redirects here. For the iCarly character, see iCarly.Born in Montreal and raised in Vancouver, Jeremy Inkel is best known as a keyboard player and programmer in Left Spine Down and Front Line Assembly...

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Critical reception

Reviews for Artificial Soldier were mixed. David Jeffries of allmusic.com called the album "ferocious" and said, "Artificial Soldier is a return to form monster of an album that will pound the band back into the electro-industrial lover's heart."

John Carlsson of Release Music Magazine called the album "a brutal and heavy affair" but said, "Their often marvelous knack for writing great hooks and choruses... seems to have gone missing." He also stated, "There is also very little variation to be found," and finished by declaring "if you... want your [Bill] Leeb furious and angry, this is right up your alley."

Track listing

Personnel

• Bill Leeb
  Bill Leeb
  Bill Leeb is an electronic musician.He moved to Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada with his family when he was 13...
  
  
• Rhys Fulber
  Rhys Fulber
  Nowell Rhys Fulber is a Canadian electronic musician and producer. He was a member of Front Line Assembly and Delerium along with Bill Leeb, and now records on his own under the name Conjure One.- Biography :...
  
  
• Chris Peterson
  Chris Peterson (producer)
  Chris Peterson is a Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada based producer and keyboard player and works for Front Line Assembly, Noise Unit and Decree...
  
  
• Jeremy Inkel
  Jeremy Inkel
  Germy redirects here. For the iCarly character, see iCarly.Born in Montreal and raised in Vancouver, Jeremy Inkel is best known as a keyboard player and programmer in Left Spine Down and Front Line Assembly...
  
  
• Guitar by Adrian White of Dismantled
  Dismantled
  Dismantled is an electronic music artist from the United States.-History:Dismantled is the product of an experiment that began in late 2000 by Gary Zon, who was attempting to create something similar to Front Line Assembly's sound...
  
   for track 6
• Guitar by Jared Slingerland
  Jared Slingerland
  Jared Slingerland was born on January 16, 1984 in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada where his father was a radio announcer on CKIQ. The family moved to Calgary, Alberta shortly after birth due to his father securing an on air job with a new CHR radio station...
  
   of Left Spine Down
  Left Spine Down
  Based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Left Spine Down is a band that plays what they call "cyberpunk," a mixture of electronica, metal, punk, and drum & bass....
  
   for track 4
• Guest vocals by Jean-Luc De Meyer
  Jean-Luc De Meyer
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   of Front 242
  Front 242
  Front 242 is a pioneering Belgian electronic music group that came into prominence during the 1980s. They are known for being the premier pioneer of electronic body music and as a major influence on the electronic and industrial music genres.-Formation:...
  
   on track 8
• Guest vocals by Eskil Simonsson of Covenant
  Covenant (band)
  Covenant is a band from Sweden whose music comprises a mixture between electropop and electronic dance music. The band is composed of Eskil Simonsson, Daniel Myer and Joakim Montelius...
  
  on track 9.