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Front Line Assembly have always stood at the forefront of industrial music in my opinion. 
Skinny Puppy built dark and disturbing albums that were not so much music as layers upon layers of ambience. 
The musical version of a satanic ritual if you will. With their 1992 release Tactical Neural Implant, 
Front Line Assembly added melody and a dash of emotion(not as evident) that was unseen in the industrial genre: 
They also did not sacrifice any of the dark or machinelike elements that were industrials trademark. 
They then abandoned that style for 3 albums in favour of adding awe-inspiring depth to their songs on Millenium and Hard Wired, 
then experimenting with mainstream techno on FLAvour of the Weak.
It was not until 1999's Implode where FLA would start to pick up their more melodic and less robotic side of their music. 
Implode came off as less organic and more ambient/emotional than before. Leeb also kept the Drum'N'Bass and 
other styles of mainstream electronica to add to his considerable repertoire of things to use to create the dark ablums that charactarize FLA
(as opposed to his othe main project, the lighter and happier Delirium).
Which brings us to Epitaph. It pulls the ambient parts of Implode, which on that album were isolated to entire songs on their own, into the main songs. 
They come in the form of either intros or replacing a verse and add a lot of contrast and depth to the songs. 
By taking the dark side of FLA that was not really brought to the forefront on Implode and mixing it with his beautiful softer parts, 
Leeb does something that is rare(if no unknown) in electronica: He adds actual emotion to the songs themselves. 
The way Pink Floyd has emotional guitar solos, FLA has emotional electronica layers, that even without Leeb's beautiful singing can evoke images, thoughts and feeling. 
Contrast is not the only way that FLA manage to evoke emotion on "Epitaph". The songs "Dead Planet", "Krank it Up" and "Backlash" all have a certain intensity. 
The first two get it from an extremely heavy backbeat(and helped along by layers of other noises) while "Backlash" has a quick DrumNBass beat that, 
mixed with both Leeb's vocal talents and song arrangements, creates a rushed feeling that makes you want to hold your breath so you do not miss anything.
I can not stress enough how much fans of industrial, electronica, or even music in general will like this album: 
Check it out now, for it is grounbreaking in many ways(like basically every album FLA have done)

Artist...............: Frontline Assembly
Album................: Epitaph
Genre................: Electronic
Style................: Industrial, Electro, Ambient 
Source...............: CD-Original
Year.................: 2001 (9 October)
Label................: ® 2001 Metropolis Records
Catalog..............: # MET224
Ripper...............: Exact Audio Copy v.1.0b4 (Secure T&C) & Accurate Rip & Plextor DVDR PX-650US
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.3.1 20141125
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 70 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment + Discogs

   1. Frontline Assembly - Haloed                             [04:47]
   2. Frontline Assembly - Dead Planet                        [05:21]
   3. Frontline Assembly - Backlash                           [05:37]
   4. Frontline Assembly - Epitaph                            [04:19]
   5. Frontline Assembly - Everything Must Perish             [06:20]
   6. Frontline Assembly - Conscience                         [05:12]
   7. Frontline Assembly - Decoy                              [06:17]
   8. Frontline Assembly - Insolence                          [05:46]
   9. Frontline Assembly - Krank It Up                        [05:44]
  10. Frontline Assembly - Existance                          [08:15]

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Playing Time.........: 00:57:43
Total Size...........: 408,02 MB in FLAC 
                       582,64 MB in WAV

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