# Alien Sex Fiend discography

The English gothic rock band Alien Sex Fiend have released 13 studio albums, six live albums, 17 compilation albums, two extended plays, 22 singles and eight video albums. Most of their releases have been on Anagram Records, a sub-label of Cherry Red Records. The band have also released three studio albums and three singles on the 13th Moon label, founded in 1996 by band members Nik Wade (Nik Fiend) and Christine Wade (Mrs. Fiend).
In the 1980s, the band's releases regularly reached the top 20 on the UK Indie Chart, beginning with the 1983 release of "Ignore the Machine", which peaked at No. 6 on the UK Indie Singles Chart. Between 1983 and 1987, 12 more Alien Sex Fiend singles appeared on the charts, all but one of which reached the top 20. Five of their albums made the top 20 on the UK Independent Album Chart.
Two mid-1980s singles also made the official UK Singles Chart: "Dead and Buried" peaked at No. 91 in 1984, while a reissued version of "Ignore the Machine" reached No. 99 the following year. Maximum Security was the band's sole album to make the UK Albums Chart, reaching No. 100 in 1985.

## Albums
### Studio albums

| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Album details | UK | UK Indie |
| Who's Been Sleeping in My Brain | Released: 25 November 1983 Label: Anagram Formats: LP | — | 10 |
| Acid Bath | Released: October 1984 Label: Anagram Formats: LP, MC | — | 4 |
| Maximum Security | Released: October 1985 Label: Anagram Formats: LP, MC | 100 | 5 |
| "It" the Album | Released: November 1986 Label: Anagram Formats: LP, MC | — | 7 |
| Here Cum Germs | Released: October 1987 Label: Anagram Formats: LP, MC | — | 22 |
| Another Planet | Released: November 1988 Label: Anagram Formats: CD, LP, MC | — | — |
| Curse | Released: 24 September 1990 Label: Anagram Formats: CD, LP, MC | — | — |
| Open Head Surgery | Released: March 1992 Label: Anagram Formats: CD, LP, MC | — | — |
| Inferno – The Odyssey Continues | Released: November 1994 Label: Anagram Formats: CD, 2xLP | — | — |
| Nocturnal Emissions | Released: 10 March 1997 Label: 13th Moon Formats: CD, 2xLP | — | — |
| Information Overload | Released: February 2004 Label: 13th Moon Formats: CD | — | — |
| Death Trip | Released: 3 May 2010 Label: 13th Moon Formats: CD, LP | — | — |
| Possessed | Released: 9 November 2018 Label: Cherry Red Formats: CD, 2xLPm digital download | — | — |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. ||||

### Live albums

| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Album details | UK Indie |
| Turn the Monitors Up | Released: 1984 Label: F.O. Formats: MC | — |
| Liquid Head in Tokyo | Released: July 1985 Label: Anagram Formats: LP | 7 |
| Too Much Acid? | Released: 18 September 1989 Label: Anagram Formats: CD, 2xLP, MC | — |
| The Altered States of America | Released: February 1993 Label: Anagram Formats: CD, LP, MC | — |
| Flashbacks! – Live 1995–1998 | Released: September 2001 Label: Yeaah! Formats: CD | — |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |||

### Compilation albums

| Title | Album details |
| All Our Yesterdays | Released: February 1988 Label: Anagram Formats: CD, LP |
| The Legendary Batcave Tapes | Released: October 1993 Label: Anagram Formats: CD, LP, MC |
| Drive My Rocket – The Collection Part One | Released: September 1994 Label: Cleopatra Formats: CD US-only release |
| The Singles 1983–1995 | Released: 1995 Label: Anagram Formats: CD, LP, MC |
| I'm Her Frankenstein – The Collection Part Two | Released: January 1995 Label: Cleopatra Formats: CD US-only release |
| Wardance of the Alien Sex Fiend | Released: 9 February 1998 Label: Recall 2cd Formats: 2xCD |
| The Bat Cave Masters | Released: April 1998 Label: Cleopatra Formats: CD US-only release |
| Fiend at the Controls Vol. 1 & 2 | Released: 24 May 1999 Label: Anagram Formats: 2xCD |
| The Best of Alien Sex Fiend | Released: 26 February 2001 Label: Anagram Formats: CD |
| R.I.P. – A 12'' Collection | Released: 17 November 2008 Label: Anagram Formats: 2xCD |
| Bat Cave Anthems | Released: February 2009 Label: Cleopatra Formats: CD US-only release |
| Between Good and Evil – The Collection | Released: 6 May 2013 Label: PressPlay Formats: CD |
| Abducted! The Best of Alien Sex Fiend | Released: 10 July 2013 Label: Anagram Formats: digital download |
| Fiendology: A 35 Year Trip Through Fiendish History 1982–2017 A.D. and Beyond | Released: 25 August 2017 Label: Cherry Red Formats: 3xCD |

### Box sets

| Title | Album details |
| A.S.F. Box | Released: 1990 Label: Windsong International Formats: 9xCD Japan-only release |
| Classic Albums and BBC Sessions Collection | Released: 23 February 2015 Label: Cherry Red Formats: 4xCD |
| Classic Albums Volume 2 | Released: 24 June 2016 Label: Cherry Red Formats: 4xCD |

### Video albums

| Title | Album details |
| A Purple Glistener | Released: 1983 Label: Jettisoundz Video Formats: VHS |
| Liquid Head in Tokyo | Released: 1985 Label: Cherry Red Films Formats: VHS |
| Edit | Released: June 1987 Label: Jettisoundz Video Formats: VHS |
| Over Dose! | Released: 1988 Label: Jettisoundz Video Formats: VHS |
| Re-Animated – The Promo Collection | Released: 1995 Label: Visionary Communications/Cleopatra Formats: VHS US-only release |

## EPs

| Title | EP details |
| The Impossible Mission Mini L.P. | Released: August 1987 Label: PVC Formats: LP, MC US-only release |
| Re-Possessed EP | Released: 8 November 2019 Label: 13th Moon Formats: digital download |

## Singles

| Single | Year | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Album |
| Single | Year | UK | UK Indie | Album |
| "Ignore the Machine" | 1983 | — | 6 | Non-album single |
| "Lips Can't Go" | 1983 | 126 | 12 | Who's Been Sleeping In My Brain |
| "R.I.P. (Blue Crumb Truck)"/"New Christian Music" | 1984 | 103 | 4 | Non-album single |
| "Dead and Buried" | 1984 | 91 | 4 | Acid Bath |
| "E.S.T. (Trip to the Moon)" | 1984 | 120 | 3 | Acid Bath |
| "Ignore the Machine" (reissue) | 1985 | 99 | 6 | Non-album single |
| "I'm Doing Time in a Maximum Security Twilight Home" | 1985 | 138 | — | Maximum Security |
| "I Walk the Line" | 1986 | 133 | 12 | Non-album single |
| "Smells Like..." | 1986 | 128 | — | "It" the Album |
| "Hurricane Fighter Plane" | 1987 | — | — | Non-album single |
| "The Impossible Mission" | 1987 | — | 11 | Here Cum the Germs |
| "Here Cum Germs" | 1987 | — | 14 | Here Cum the Germs |
| "Stuff the Turkey" | 1987 | — | 14 | Non-album single |
| "Bun Ho!" | 1988 | — | — | Another Planet |
| "Haunted House" | 1989 | — | — | Non-album single |
| "Now I'm Feeling Zombiefied" | 1990 | — | — | Curse |
| "Magic" | 1992 | — | — | Open Head Surgery |
| "Inferno" (The Mixes) | 1994 | — | — | Inferno – The Odyssey Continues |
| "Evolution" | 1996 | — | — | Nocturnal Emissions |
| "On a Mission" (Remixes) | 1997 | — | — | Nocturnal Emissions |
| "Tarot" | 1998 | — | — | Nocturnal Emissions |
| "All the Madmen" (US-only release) | 2007 | — | — | Non-album single |
| "Shit's Coming Down" | 2018 | — | — | Possessed |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |||||