Live Wired

This article is about the 1996 Front Line Assembly album. For other uses, see livewire (disambiguation).

Live Wired is a live album by Vancouver industrial band Front Line Assembly, released in 1996, with the majority of tracks coming from the bands previous two studio albums; Millennium and Hard Wired. A box set including the two CDs plus a VHS with all of the band's video clips to date (except "Mindphaser" and "Body Count"), and a live concert video (from the show in Chemnitz 1995, different from the one on CD) was released at the same time.

Live Wired
Live album by Front Line Assembly
Released	September 16, 1996 (1996-09-16)
Recorded	October 24, 1995 (1995-10-24)
Venue	Kulturzentrum Mainz
Genre	Industrial metal, electro-industrial, EBM
Length	111:24
Label	Off Beat, Metropolis, Energy
Producer	Bill Leeb, Rhys Fulber
Front Line Assembly chronology
The Remix Wars: Strike 2 (1996) Live Wired (1996) Reclamation (1997)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Culture Shock	Favorable^[2]
Metal Hammer	^[3]
Vertigo	Favorable^[4]

Track listing

Disc 1

No.	Title	Also on	Length
1.	"Mortal"	Hard Wired	7:03
2.	"Vigilante"	Millennium	5:52
3.	"Circuitry"	Hard Wired	7:50
4.	"Bio-Mechanic"	Tactical Neural Implant	5:24
5.	"Resist"	Caustic Grip	5:24
6.	"Surface Patterns"	Millennium	6:15
7.	"Plasticity"		6:47
8.	"Modus Operandi"	Hard Wired	5:48
9.	"Liquid Separation"	Millennium	5:30
Total length:			55:55

Disc 2

No.	Title	Also on	Length
1.	"Gun"	Tactical Neural Implant	6:26
2.	"Overkill"	Caustic Grip	5:21
3.	"Millennium"	Millennium	11:46
4.	"Condemned"	Hard Wired	6:26
5.	"Mindphaser"	Tactical Neural Implant	9:46
6.	"Neologic Spasm"	Hard Wired	6:37
7.	"Body Count"	Disorder	9:09
Total length:			55:33

Live Wired Box Set VHS Video

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Intro Visual Mind"	0:25
2.	"Mortal"	2:52
3.	"Vigilante"	6:15
4.	"Circuitry"	7:21
5.	"Bio-Mechanic"	5:24
6.	"Iceolate" (Video Clip)	5:14
7.	"Resist"	5:21
8.	"Interview (Part1)"	2:59
9.	"Surface Patterns"	6:10
10.	"Millennium" (Video Clip)	4:27
11.	"Gun"	6:06
12.	"Interview (Part2)"	3:17
13.	"Modus Operandi"	5:28
14.	"Virus" (Video Clip)	4:26
15.	"Liquid Separation"	4:50
16.	"The Blade" (Video Clip)	4:25
17.	"Overkill"	5:24
18.	"Interview (Part3)"	2:34
19.	"Millennium"	7:47
20.	"Laughing Pain" (Video Clip)	5:21
21.	"Mindphaser"	6:39
22.	"Body Count"	7:54
23.	"Plasticity" (Video Clip)	4:17
Total length:		114:56

Personnel

Front Line Assembly

• Bill Leeb – vocals, keyboard, percussion, production
• Rhys Fulber – keyboard, percussion, production

Additional live musicians

• Adrian White – drums, percussion
• Jed Simon – guitar, drums

Production and other personnel

Greg Reely – sound engineering, recording, mixing Tim Oberthier – monitor engineering Elk H. – tour management Thorsten S. – press Torsten J. – backliner Nicole S. – merchandising Jos – video Ed – light (Flash) Gordon – driver

Sven Schirm – photography Torsten Balzer – photography Thorsten Stroht – photography Katalyn Illes – photography Rod Chong – video interview directing Dave McKean – design, illustration Jürgen Heidelbach – booklet layout Christian Poeck – live video directing Steven Enderlein – live video editing

Manfred Gremmer – live video editing Olaf Ave – live video camera Steven Enderlein – live video camera Christian Poeck – live video camera Lars Schreiber – live video camera Christine Ziesmer – live video camera Christian Poeck – live video executive production Gösta Oelstrom – live video executive production, live video production Uwe Praetel – live video production

References

1. Front Line Assembly: Live Wired at AllMusic. Retrieved July 9, 2014.
2. sAge (December 1996). "Front Line Assembly: Live Wired". Culture Shock. No. 3. Hackensack, New Jersey: Genocide Project. pp. 48–49. ISSN 1093-1651. OCLC 36564457. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
3. Ingham, Chris. "Front Line Assembly - Live Wired". Metal Hammer. TeamRock.
4. Abraxa (January 1997). "Front Line Assembly Live Wired". Vertigo (in German). No. 15. Geldern: Celtic Circle Productions. p. 49.