WarMech

WarMech is a video game soundtrack album by Vancouver-based electro-industrial band Front Line Assembly. The album was released through Artoffact Records on June 22, 2018 as the soundtrack to Carbon Games' AirMech Wastelands, a sequel to the 2012 video game AirMech that also featured a soundtrack by Front Line Assembly.[9] WarMech features Jeremy Inkel's final recordings,[10] as he died on January 13, 2018.[11]

WarMech
Soundtrack album by
Front Line Assembly
ReleasedJune 22, 2018 (2018-06-22)
Genre
Length73:21
LabelArtoffact Records
Producer
Front Line Assembly chronology
Kampfbereit
(2015)		 WarMech
(2018)		 Wake Up the Coma
(2019)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
I Die: You DieFavorable[1]
OverdriveFavorable[2]
Reflections of Darkness8.5/10[3]
ReGenFavorable[4]
Release7/10[5]
Side-Line7.5/10[6]
Spectrum Culture[7]
The Spill[8]

The songs "Mechvirus" and "Molotov" were released for early streaming through the group's Bandcamp account.[12][13]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Bill Leeb, Jeremy Inkel, Jared Slingerland, Sasha Keevil, Craig Johnsen.

No.TitleLength
1."Mechvirus"6:33
2."Anthropod"5:45
3."Heatmap"6:21
4."The Imminent"4:54
5."Force Carrier"5:17
6."Meteorfall"6:49
7."Molotov"5:30
8."Rip Sensor"7:31
9."The Eminent"6:11
10."Mechanism"6:07
11."Earthriser"5:48
12."Creator"6:35

Personnel

Credits adapted from WarMech liner notes.[14]

Front Line Assembly
  • Bill Leeb – vocals, electronic instruments, production
  • Jared Slingerland – electronic instruments, production
  • Jeremy Inkel – strings recording, electronic instruments, production
  • Sasha Keevil – electronic instruments, production
  • Craig Johnson – electronic instruments, production

Additional musicians
  • Jason Bazinet – additional samples

Technical personnel

Chart history
Chart (2018) Peak position
German Alternative Albums (Deutsche Alternative Charts)[15] 3
gollark: When I needed an assembler I just wrote my own using incredibly horrorus string processing.
gollark: Macron is compiled by running the Macron preprocessor on itself until it converges.
gollark: Macron is its own preprocessor.
gollark: Wrong.
gollark: Maybe it dislikes the full stop.

References
  1. "Front Line Assembly, "WarMech"". I Die: You Die. June 22, 2018. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  2. Allan, Lewis (July 17, 2018). "Front Line Assembly 'WarMech' Album Review". overdrive-mag.com. Retrieved July 21, 2018.
  3. Uhlenbruch, J. Niggels (July 18, 2018). "CD Review: Front Line Assembly - WarMech". reflectionsofdarkness.com. Münster. Retrieved August 6, 2018.
  4. Leach, Douglas (July 5, 2018). "Front Line Assembly – WarMech". ReGen Magazine. Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  5. Carlsson, Johan (June 21, 2018). "Front Line Assembly – Warmech". Release. Retrieved July 6, 2018.
  6. "Front Line Assembly – WarMech (CD Album – Artoffact Records)". side-line.com. August 1, 2018. Retrieved August 4, 2018.
  7. Wright, Darryl G. (July 17, 2018). "Front Line Assembly: Warmech". spectrumculture.com. Retrieved July 21, 2018.
  8. Badgley, Aaron. "Front Line Assembly: WarMech". The Spill Magazine. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  9. Carlsson, Johan. "Front Line Assembly to finally release "Warmech"". Release Magazine. Retrieved May 11, 2018.
  10. "Front Line Assembly reveal WarMech". Sputnikmusic. Retrieved May 13, 2018.
  11. "Jeremy Michel Neville Inkel". Legacy.com. Retrieved May 13, 2018.
  12. "Front Line Assembly Streams First Track from WarMech". The Spill Magazine. Retrieved May 11, 2018.
  13. Barkan, Jonathan. "Exclusive: Front Line Assembly Light a Fire with "Molotov"". Dread Central. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
  14. WarMech (digital liner notes). Artoffact Records. 2018. Retrieved May 11, 2018.
  15. "Deutsche Alternative Charts Kategorie: Album". Retrieved July 4, 2018.
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