The US electro-industrial act Flesh Field have released ‘The Truth Within’ as a brand new single today (8th August). Taken from an album entitled ‘Belief Control’ out on 31st October, group founder and mainstay Ian Ross explains that “this song is a reimagined version of a track originally written while we were making our debut album in 1999, but it didn’t make it onto that record. I’ve since revisited and refined the melodies to create a stronger, more evolved version specifically for our upcoming album.”
‘Viral Extinction’ is the album referred to by Ross and was a record that earned glowing reviews for its aggressive approach and its widescreen cinematic sound achieved by blending synths, percussion, guitar and sampled choir. A remastered reissue of it was issued in June 2025, maintaining fresh momentum following Ross’ resurrection of the group in 2023 to issue the album ‘Voice of the Echo Chamber’ and companion piece ‘Voice Of Reason’ EP in early 2024.
Flesh Field is a US electro-industrial act formed in 1996 by Ian Ross in Columbus, Ohio. Their debut album, ‘Viral Extinction’, was released three years later, while several of its songs were subsequently remixed by several contemporaries and issued together with new material on the album-length ‘Redemption’ EP in 2000.
Highlighting the band’s compositional skills with bombastic symphonic elements and intricate synth and percussion programming, 2001’s ‘Belief Control’ solidified Flesh Field’s status as a band to be reckoned with. It also led to the group signing to Metropolis Records for the US release of their third album, ‘Strain’. With new layers of acoustic and electronic percussion, guitar and choral effects added into the mix, these elements resulted in an epic and anthemic feel to a record that was acclaimed by fans and critics alike.
Then, silence. For almost two decades, Flesh Field lay dormant, even as numerous tracks from their catalogue were placed in the soundtracks of films including ‘The Mill’, TV shows such as ‘True Blood’ and video games like ‘Project Gotham Racing’. ‘Voice Of The Echo Chamber’ suddenly appeared in 2023, a concept work with each of its ten tracks representing stages of political radicalisation and violence. It was followed by an album length companion piece EP entitled ‘Voice Of Reason’ in 2024 and a reissue of ‘Viral Extinction’ in June 2025.
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