Frontal Boundary streams new ‘Failure’ album exclusively on Side-Line ahead of release tomorrow on Alfa Matrix
Frontal Boundary
Alfa Matrix will release Frontal Boundary’s industrial/EBM full-length “Failure” tomorrow, December 12, 2025. But today we already offer you an exclusive full stream of the album. The album will appear digitally via Bandcamp and other platforms, and as a limited 2CD digipak. The album will extremely please fans of Unter Null as their sound holds a lot of similarities as you can already check out below.
CD 1 holds the full-length album “Failure,” a 12-track electro-industrial/EBM set includes songs like “Hate,” “Nothing,” “Reset,” and “Awake.” The album holds two collaborations: Unter Null appears on “Hollow,” and Protokoll 19 appears on “Made to Suffer.”
CD2 holds 12 tracks of mixes and remixes. Confirmed contributors include Unter Null, Viscera Drip, Pygmy Children, Miseria Ultima, Her Own World, Fact Pattern, BlakLight, Dread Risks, Contracult, and Livernois.
About Frontal Boundary
Frontal Boundary is an American industrial/EBM project founded by Brendin Ross in 2002. After an early hiatus, Ross revived the project in 2008, issuing initial tracks and building a live presence that included tours alongside acts such as God Module and Die Sektor. The group later expanded to include vocalist Krz Souls (joined 2019) and synth player Jaysen Craves (joined 2023). The project is currently based in Los Angeles, USA.
A first album, “Electronic Warfare” (2012), circulated independently and drew coverage in specialist press before a re-issue (“Electronic Warfare V.2”, 2013). Live shows followed however also a period of reduced output while members worked with other bands.
After the low-key studio return with “The Fall” (2021), the band re-entered full activity in 2023 with a series of singles. In 2023, Frontal Boundary signed to Re:Mission Entertainment, setting up the return run of singles that preceded their 2024 album. The full-length “Shutting Down” followed in 2024, accompanied by the single “Shutting Down”, a video, and the companion set “Shutting Down Remixed” in 2025.
The collaboration single “Hollow” with Unter Null (March 2025) prefaced the Alfa Matrix era. In July 2025, the band signed to Alfa Matrix, debuting on the label with the single “Hate” and “Faith” ahead of the upcoming 2CD album “Failure”.
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