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A Split Second is a Belgian electronic and industrial band.
A Split Second is simply too good to be ignored, and from their conception in 1985 it didn’t take the world long to acknowledge the importance of Marc ICKX’s and Chrismar CHAYELL’s unique musical vision.

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A Split Second’s first American release, the 1987 EP A Split Second, collected highlights from their early European releases, which included Ballistic Statues (which featured the tense masterpiece “Close Combat”), Smell of Buddah as well as their innovative EBM classic, “Flesh”.

The second album, 1988’s …From the Inside, remains one of the underappreciated classics of late-80s industrial music. Beginning with the rock-oriented “Bend My Body Armour”, the album is remarkably varied for the genre, featuring post-funk-disco (“Choke”), ballads (“The Last Wave”, the title track), and muscular club tracks (the dancefloor smash “Mambo Witch”). The album is notable for its peculiarly interesting lyrics, which feature odd, vaguely morbid phrasing (“muscles contorted in atrocity posture”) that give the record a depth atypical of the genre. The subsequent single, “The Colosseum Crash” b/w “Muscle Machine”, highlighted the Wax Trax! phase of the band’s career.

While not as consistantly striking or varied, the followup Kiss of Fury has several songs worthy of its predecessor, notably the tense, moody “Crimewave” and the single “Firewalker”. For the most part, the album picks up the rock-oriented direction of “Bend My Body Armour” with tracks such as “The Parallax View” and “Cold War in the Brainbox”; they contiune largely in this direction for their ’90s records, Vengance C.O.D. and Megabyte.

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1	flesh	33
2	Rigor Mortis	19
3	On Command	17
4	Colonial discharge	11
4	Check It Out	11
6	Midnight Express	9
7	Bend my body armour	8
7	Rigor Mortis - Gothic	8
7	Mambo witch	8
10	The Colosseum Crash	7
10	Cold war in the brainbox	7
10	Firewalker	7
13	Flesh - Jungle	6
13	Scandinavian Bellydance	6
15	Bodycheck	5

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Haemoglobin7292 wrote:
14 days ago

a m a z i n g

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Roland-Korg wrote:
last month

Flesh is an alltime classic

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masvidal90 wrote:
last month

"ballistic statues"

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ManiacalHex wrote:
November 2011

I FUCKIN' LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!

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IndustrialHz wrote:
October 2011

If anyone likes this group may I suggest Carlos Perón, a few of his albums are a very similar kind of eccentric new wave/EBM. I love all of A Split Second's albums, the only truly weak one is Megabite if you ask me. It was more of a Marc Ickx solo project, however.

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varnavix wrote:
October 2011

My first thought as well.

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ahenathon wrote:
September 2011

I thought this is Andrew Eldritch's side project. Dude from right looks like him :)

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LvNdrVYlance wrote:
September 2011

this band just DOES IT for me

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sewertroll wrote:
July 2011

Flesh reminds me of SpK's Metal Dance, or at least a remix that i heard sounded alot like it.

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deathprinciple wrote:
May 2011

The picture looks like Ryan Gosling and Michael Jackson

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IndustrialHz wrote:
May 2011

band is so lol, but awesome

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20ss wrote:
February 2011

I LIEK!

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LordZuoCi wrote:
January 2011

One of the best.

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infestchris wrote:
October 2010

Crimewave - amazing record!

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Mirror_Of_Death wrote:
May 2010

Classic of style!

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Haz567 wrote:
February 2010

from the inside is so good

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DesireeGomez wrote:
January 2010

rigor mortis

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digital2u wrote:
December 2009

in the flesch on 33 rpm new beat version in the eigthies amazing

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syllannibal wrote:
September 2009

Hi everyone, listen to this song and check out the whole album if you liked it, thanks! http://freedownloads.last.fm/download/187606470/Boring.mp3

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Sir_Ginge wrote:
September 2009

love the bloody beetroots remix of flesh :)

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