Editing Front 242 (section)

===1990s===
''[[Tyranny (For You)]]'', released in 1991, became the band's highest-charting album, reaching #95 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]].<ref name="billboard 200">{{cite web| url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=front 242|chart=Billboard 200}} | title=Front 242 Album & Song Chart History: Billboard 200 | work=billboard.com | publisher=Nielsen Media Inc. | access-date=25 March 2010}}</ref>  ''Tyranny (For You)'' was the first album they released under contract with a major corporate label, Sony/Epic,<ref name="history"/> after the widespread popularity of ''Front by Front''. Two further releases were extracted from ''Tyranny'' — ''Mixed by Fear'', which contained remixes of the track "Gripped by Fear", and the single "Rhythm of Time", which included a remix by [[The Orb]].<ref name="mfteq_1">{{cite journal |author= <!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Mind's Eye |journal=Music from the Empty Quarter |date=May 1991 |issue=1 |page=5 |publisher=The Empty Quarter |publication-place=UK |issn=0964-542X |url=https://archive.org/details/musicfromtheemptyquarter01}}</ref>

Sony/Epic also acquired the rights to the band's back catalog from Wax Trax! and issued re-released versions of the albums with new cover art and bonus tracks taken from singles and EPs.<ref name="history"/>

In 1992, Bressanutti returned to combining graphic arts with music, taking his lithographs on tour to three U.S. galleries. Bressanutti also composed a solo half-hour atmospheric recording called ''Art and Strategy'' (or The Art Corporation) to play during viewings of the lithographs, and released it in a limited edition of 1,000 CDs.

Front 242's style shifted abruptly with each of their next two albums, released in rapid succession in 1993 on Epic's sub-label RRE (originally planned as a double-CD):  ''06:21:03:11 UP EVIL'' and ''05:22:09:12 OFF'' (the numbers correspond to letters, spelling "FUCK UP EVIL" and "EVIL OFF"). The band describes the two albums as "based on the duality of good and evil."<ref name="history"/>  However, strains were emerging, with the band members apparently having different artistic views. Despite these tensions, they performed on the main stage of the 1993 [[Lollapalooza]] tour.<ref>{{cite book | author=Garofalo, Reebee | title=Rockin' Out: Popular Music in the USA | publisher=Pearson Prentice Hall | year=2008 | page=[https://archive.org/details/rockinoutpopular0000garo/page/421 421] | isbn=978-0-13-234305-3 | url=https://archive.org/details/rockinoutpopular0000garo/page/421 }}</ref>

Neither of these albums had significant input from Richard 23, and ''05:22:09:12 OFF'' only included their lead vocalist, Jean-Luc De Meyer, on a remixed track originally from ''Up Evil''. On the other hand, a variety of new contributors were listed as members of Front 242 on these albums: Jean-Marc Pauly and Pierre Pauly (of the Belgian electronic group Parade Ground) on ''Up Evil'', and 99 Kowalski, John Dubs and Eran Westwood on ''Off''.<ref>{{cite book | title=The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll | author=Romanowski, Patricia | year=1995 | publisher=Fireside | isbn=978-0-684-81044-7 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonee00patr }}</ref>

99 Kowalski is the stage name of Kristin Kowalski, making a tradition out of Richard 23's idea of number-as-name. Kowalski, Dubs and Westwood were originally members of a [[New York City]] band called Spill who Bressanutti and Codenys had brought to Belgium to produce their debut album. After the recording sessions fell apart, they contributed to Front 242 on the ''Off'' release.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Christian |first1=Chris |title=Interview with Patrick Codenys of Front 242 |url=https://sonic-boom.com/interview/front.242.interview.html |website=Sonic-Boom Magazine |access-date=10 May 2024}}</ref>

After the release of ''06:21:03:11 Up Evil'' and ''05:22:09:12 Off'', there was no new material from Front 242 under any lineup. Instead, the band released a stream of live recordings and remixes. However, this period also saw a proliferation of side projects, an inordinate number of which involved De Meyer.

Earlier, Richard 23 played in the [[Revolting Cocks]], and De Meyer had a side project doing vocals for [[Bigod 20]] for their single, "The Bog" in 1990. In 1995, De Meyer met [[Marc Heal]] of [[Cubanate]] at a [[Front Line Assembly]] concert, and the two of them collaborated along with [[Ged Denton]] and Jonathan Sharp, to record as [[Cyber-Tec Project]] for the new (and short-lived) Cyber-Tec record label.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHP-r9-eqdAC&q=%22richard+23%22+%22up+evil%22&pg=PA377 | author=Thompson, Dave | title=Alternative Rock | page=377 | publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation | year=2000 | isbn=9780879306076 | access-date=14 April 2011}}</ref>

After the departure of Sharp and the demise of the Cyber-Tec label, the remaining group continued working under the name [[C-Tec]]. De Meyer also took over as vocalist for [[Birmingham 6 (band)|Birmingham 6]] for their 1996 album ''Error of Judgment''. 1996 also saw the debut album ''Elemental'' from [[Cobalt 60 (band)|Cobalt 60]], which De Meyer formed with [[Dominique Lallement]] and [[Frederic Sebastien]] of [[Reims]], France, members of [[Kriegbereit]]. This was the start of a number of releases from Cobalt 60, which also did the soundtrack for the video game ''[[Wing Commander: Prophecy|Wing Commander V]]''.<ref name=nwdc/> Meanwhile, Richard 23 recorded with the groups [[Holy Gang]], and later, [[LaTchak]].

The four core members of Front 242 regrouped in 1998 to compose radically reworked versions of many of their songs, which they then performed on their first tour in five years, appropriately called the Re:Boot tour. They acknowledged the influence of [[The Prodigy]] and their ''Fat of the Land'' album in crafting the new, more techno style of Re:Boot.

The new tour material was the subject of Front 242's new recording contract in the U.S. with [[Metropolis Records]]. Front 242 also indicated at this time that they were recording new material. However, they had little activity after 1998, making occasional appearances in Europe and Mexico, while Codenys recorded under the name [[Gaiden]] with [[Steve Stoll (musician)|Steve Stoll]] in 2001.