The Golden Foretaste of Heaven is an album by Alec Empire

Alec Empire

Alec Empire is a German musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot. Also a prolific and distinguished solo artist, producer and DJ, he has released well over a hundred albums, EPs and singles and remixed over seventy tracks for various artists including Björk...

, released in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 on November 28, 2007, and in Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

 on January 18, 2008. It is his first on his newly established Eat Your Heart Out label. Unlike his previous, rock-oriented efforts post-Atari Teenage Riot

Atari Teenage Riot

'Atari Teenage Riot' is a German digital hardcore group formed in Berlin in 1992. The name was taken from a Portuguese Joe song 'Teenage Riot' from the 'Teen-age Riot' album, with the word 'Atari' added as an Atari ST computer was used to create compositions...

 (Intelligence and Sacrifice

Intelligence and Sacrifice

Intelligence and Sacrifice is a 2001 album by German recording artist Alec Empire. While by no means his first solo album, it was his first full album since the demise of his former band Atari Teenage Riot, and he regarded it as a new beginning, stating that it "feels like this is my first real...

(CD1) and Futurist

Futurist (album)

Futurist is an album released in 2005 by Alec Empire. It is the follow-up to 2001's Intelligence and Sacrifice and is notable for the fact that the use of electronics for which Empire is famed is reduced in favour of guitars and drum beats, giving the album more of a punk/metal sound than its...

) this album is completely electronic (with vocals).

CD

1. "New Man" - 3:48
2. "If You Live or Die" - 3:44
3. "ICE (As If She Could Steal a Piece of My Glamour)" - 4:00
4. "1000 Eyes" - 7:18
5. "Down Satan Down" (Dub) - 3:30
6. "On Fire
   On Fire EP
   The On Fire EP is an EP by Alec Empire, released on December 7, 2007, from his album The Golden Foretaste of Heaven. It contains the title track, several remixes and all tracks from the single "Robot L.O.V.E.", previously issued on vinyl...
   
   " (The Hellish Vortex Sessions) - 4:29
7. "Robot L.O.V.E.
   Robot L.O.V.E.
   "Robot L.O.V.E." is a song by Alec Empire, released as a 12" single on June 11, 2007. It is the first release on his own Eat Your Heart Out label and the first single from the album The Golden Foretaste of Heaven. The two b-side tracks are included on the Japanese pressing of the album, as well as...
   
   " - 3:48
8. "Death Trap In 3D" - 3:21
9. "Bug On My Windshield" - 3:47
10. "No/Why/New York" - 4:19
11. "ICE" (dub)*
12. "Naginita"*

* Japanese version only, previously released on the "Robot L.O.V.E." single.

Digital download

Certain bonus tracks can be obtained exclusively through digital downloads. These include:

• "EYHO Beats"
• "No/Why/New York" (Eat Your Heart Out Minimal Remix)
• "Robot L.O.V.E." (Live in Cologne 10/2007)

External links

• Official Eat Your Heart Out site
• Official Alec Empire fansite
• Review at Comfort Comes