Epitaph (Front Line Assembly album)

Epitaph is the eleventh full-length studio album by Vancouver industrial band Front Line Assembly, released in 2001.

Epitaph
Studio album by Front Line Assembly
Released	October 8, 2001 (2001-10-08)
Recorded	2001 (2001), Cryogenic Studio
Genre	Electro-industrial, EBM
Length	54:57
Label	Metropolis
Producer	Bill Leeb, Chris Peterson
Front Line Assembly chronology
Cryogenic Studio, Vol. 2 (2000) Epitaph (2001) Civilization (2004)
Singles from Epitaph
"Everything Must Perish" Released: September 11, 2001[1]

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	82/100[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Barcode	7.2/10[4]
Industrial Nation	Mixed[5]
Metal Hammer	7/10[6]
Outburn	[7]
Rock Sound	[8]
Side-Line	9/10[9]
SLUG	5+[10]
Splendid	Favorable[11]

Release

With the release, Metropolis also issued a Digipak version that contains a hidden bonus track and was limited to 25.000 copies.^[12] Even though the bonus track was originally announced as untitled,^[12] its title was later revealed as "Submerged".^[13] It was later available in remixed form on the Noise Unit 2005 album Voyeur.

The track "Existence" is featured in the 2002 horror film Resident Evil but not on the accompanying soundtrack.^[14]

In 2015, Canadian label Artoffact re-released Epitaph on limited edition vinyl.^[15]

Single

"Everything Must Perish" is the only single taken from Epitaph. Along with the original version the title track is featured as radio edit. Non-album track "Providence" is sung by Jenifer McLaren, also guest vocalist on Delerium's Poem. Johan Carlsson from Release Magazine wrote that the band has taken "a more mature and melodic route"^[16] with the single. Noting the Delerium influence on "Providence", he described the song as "beefed up, speeded up and dancified Delerium track".^[16]

Writing and composition

Being a characteristic feature on previous recordings, on Epitaph Front Line Assembly did not use samples. "This is the first time we quit using movie samples.", said Bill Leeb to Belgian magazine Side-Line and cited the more important role of samples in contemporary music and its financial side: "Sampling is an artform which was criticised in the beginning, but now it's a respected artform with big money in it. It's a big business where I don't feel at ease any longer."^[17]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Bill Leeb and Chris Peterson, except where noted.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Haloed"	4:45
2.	"Dead Planet"	5:20
3.	"Backlash"	5:37
4.	"Epitaph"	4:19
5.	"Everything Must Perish"	6:19
6.	"Conscience"	5:12
7.	"Decoy"	6:17
8.	"Insolence"	5:46
9.	"Krank It Up"	5:43
10.	"Existance" (The song "Existance" ends at 8:15. After one minute of silence (8:15 - 9:15), begins the hidden song "Submerged" [written and composed by Peterson, Jason Filipchuk])	18:20

Personnel

Front Line Assembly

• Bill Leeb – production, vocals
• Chris Peterson – production

Technical personnel

• Greg Reely – mixing, engineering
• Brian Gardner – mastering
• Dave McKean – artwork, design