Assemblage 23 released a fourth album, Storm, in October 2004 with singles "Let the Wind Erase Me" in August and "Ground" in November.
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After falling out with Gashed Records following Failure, Shear signed with US label Metropolis Records (US) later in 2001; Metropolis re-released Contempt and Failure in November.
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By this point, Assemblage 23 had become fairly popular within the EBM genre; the third album, Defiance, was released in October 2002 on Metropolis and Accession, preceded by the single "Document", in September of that year.
In the autumn of 2004 Run Level Zero went on a European tour with Assemblage 23 and Rotersand.
Lost Signal's debut EP Command was followed by the full-length Catharsis, produced by Tom Shear (Assemblage 23).
Featuring remixes of the title track by Ronan Harris of VNV Nation and Tom Shear of Assemblage 23, the EP contained two other new songs, 'Schadenfreude' and 'Higher Ground (voxless)' and two reworked older songs.
Their first single 'Shiver' charted on the German DAC charts with remixes from Assemblage 23 and Echo Image.