Jeremy Inkel

Career By 2003, Inkel co-founded Left Spine Down with kAINE D3L4Y and Matt Girvan. Their like-mindedness for punk rock and electronic music brought them together, performing as headliners as well as openers for touring acts in Vancouver. After beginning work on LSD's first album, Fighting for Voltage with Chris Peterson, Inkel was welcomed into Front Line Assembly in 2005. He co-wrote and -produced the full-length album Artificial Soldier (released in 2006). FLA then brought Inkel (as well as LSD alumni Jared Slingerland) on tour to promote the Artificial Soldier album. They quickly followed up with the remix album Fallout, touring worldwide for two years with the group, and co-headlining various festivals such as Mera Luna, Summer Darkness, and Amphi Festival (featuring notable acts such as Nitzer Ebb, Bauhaus, Apoptygma Berzerk, Bloc Party, VNV Nation, The Killers and others).

He was also in the lineup for FLA to play in Russia for the first time. It was during these tours with FLA that Inkel was able to introduce the world to his other band, Left Spine Down, via the means of their Smartbomb EP released on the Synthetic Sounds label.

2008 and 2009 saw Inkel and Left Spine Down open for acts such as The Genitorturers, ohGr, The Birthday Massacre, and the Revolting Cocks' North American Lubricatour (with Jim Rose, Blownload and Left Spine Down as guests). It was then when Inkel began working with 16volt's Eric Powell, providing his services on their new album American Porn Songs ("To Hell") and coordinating LSD's appearance on the North American MIDI GHETTO TOUR, which consisted of thirty-three performances with 16volt and Chemlab in Spring of 2010.

In 2009, Inkel returned to Front Line Assembly, co-writing and co-producing the full-length album Improvised Electronic Device, and the single "Shifting Through the Lens". The albums were released in 2010. As a result of Inkel's experience touring with The Revolting Cocks, he enlisted Al Jourgensen to co-produce, mix, and perform vocals for the track "Stupidity", alongside Justin Hagberg, guitarist and vocalist for 3 Inches of Blood.

Inkel died in North Vancouver on January 11, 2018, aged 34, following complications from asthma.

Discography

Solo Work 2020 Hijacker (released posthumously)

Noise Unit 2005 Voyeur 2022 Cheeba City Blues (Posthumous)

Front Line Assembly 2006: Artificial Soldier 2007: Fallout 2010: Improvised Electronic Device 2012: AirMech 2013: Echogenetic 2014: Echoes 2018: WarMech 2019: Wake Up the Coma

Left Spine Down 2003 Click EP 2007 Smartbomb EP 2008 Fighting for Voltage 2009 Voltage 2.3: Remixed and Revisited 2009 Smartbomb 2.3: The Underground Mixes 2011 Caution

Delerium 2012: Music Box Opera