Wake Up the Coma is the sixteenth full-length studio album by Vancouver industrial band Front Line Assembly. It was released on February 8, 2019 on CD, vinyl and digitally through Metropolis.[1]
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| Released | February 8, 2019 (2019-02-08)[1] | |||
| Recorded | 2018 | |||
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| Genre | Electro-industrial,[2] EBM[3] | |||
| Length | 62:26 | |||
| Label | Metropolis | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Chain D.L.K. | |
| Midlands Metalheads Radio | |
| Overdrive | Favorable[6] |
| Peek-a-boo | 90/100[7] |
| Reflections of Darkness | 9.5/10[8] |
| ReGen | Favorable[9] |
| Release | 8/10[10] |
| Side-Line | 8/10[3] |
| Sputnikmusic | |
A digital only single titled "Eye on You",[12] originally scheduled for release on November 2, 2018,[13] was released on November 16 to promote the album. It features Robert Görl of German electropunk band Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft[14] and contains two remixes of the title track: one by Terence Fixmer and one by Orphx.
The release date of the album was moved from October 2018 to February 2019.[13] In December, the band announced the final release date of February 8, 2019. Chris Connelly, Nick Holmes and Jimmy Urine would appear on the album as guests, the latter on a cover of Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus".[1] In January 2019 the band revealed the album's tracklist.[15]
Two days before the album's release, a video for "Rock Me Amadeus" directed by Jason Alacrity premiered at Baeble Music.[16]
On December 2, 2020 Front Line Assembly released a video for the track "Arbeit" directed by Henrik Bjerregaard Clausen and starring Danish actor Kim Sønderholm.[17]
"'Eye on You' is definitely about the paranoia of our governments watching us [...], but there’s a couple of songs that are about the complexities in relationships between people today as well", said vocalist Bill Leeb in an interview with Release Magazine.[18]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Eye on You" (feat. Robert Görl) | Bill Leeb, Rhys Fulber, Robert Görl, Ian Pickering | 4:30 |
| 2. | "Arbeit" | Leeb, Fulber, Jared Slingerland, Sasha Keevill | 5:02 |
| 3. | "Rock Me Amadeus" (feat. Jimmy Urine) | Falco, Rob Bolland, Ferdi Bolland | 4:14 |
| 4. | "Tilt" | Leeb, Slingerland, Keevill | 5:10 |
| 5. | "Hatevol" | Leeb, Fulber, Slingerland, Keevill | 5:00 |
| 6. | "Proximity" | Leeb, Fulber, Slingerland, Keevill | 5:21 |
| 7. | "Living a Lie" | Leeb, Craig Johnsen, Slingerland, Keevill | 5:53 |
| 8. | "Wake Up the Coma" (feat. Nick Holmes) | Leeb, Pickering, Fulber, Slingerland, Keevill | 5:47 |
| 9. | "Mesmerized" | Leeb, Fulber, Slingerland, Keevill, Jeremy Inkel | 4:47 |
| 10. | "Negative Territory" | Leeb, Pickering, Fulber, Slingerland | 6:18 |
| 11. | "Structures" | Leeb, Fulber, Johnsen, Slingerland, Keevill, Inkel | 5:07 |
| 12. | "Spitting Wind" (feat. Chris Connelly) | Leeb, Fulber, Chris Connelly, Johnsen, Slingerland, Keevill | 5:17 |
| Chart (2019) | Peak position |
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| US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[19] | 15 |
| US Independent Albums (Billboard)[20] | 40 |
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