Industrial icons Front Line Assembly, under the command of genre legend Bill Leeb, are veteran explorers of dark futuristic terrain – as evidenced last year with their epic soundtrack for Carbon Games' AirMech (read our review here). After that project, the band focused on an even more chilling fantasy landscape entirely of their own creation, in the form of their latest studio album Echogenetic, which makes its debut today via Metropolis Records. It also marks a return to the band's earlier all-synth phase, losing the industrial-metal riffage that had become an integral part of their sound over the past several albums through 2010's Improvised. Electronic. Device. In some ways Echogenetic recalls the band's classic album Tactical Neural Implant not only in its technique, but in its harsh, frightening tone. Also, with the infusion of new talent into the Fla team (Leeb is the sole founding member, with returning players Jeremy Inkel...
- 7/9/2013
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
Founded in the mid-'80s by industrial music pioneer Bill Leeb, Front Line Assembly (call 'em Fla for short) has always served as the soundtrack to a dark future of cyberpunk menace and death-dealing machines, so it's no stretch at all to imagine the band composing the music to an action-packed dystopian video game. I'm actually surprised it's taken so long for that marriage to happen, but thankfully it has, and to great success, with their recent involvement in Carbon Games' free-to-play real time strategy game AirMech. Now the game soundtrack has been been given the full studio treatment, and the experience reaches beyond the music itself to include new content that enhances the gaming experience. If you're unfamiliar with AirMech and the whole “free-to-play” concept, it's a pretty cool idea, offering a free downloadable multi-platform game in which players can choose to support the developers by purchasing upgrades and enhancements,...
- 12/5/2012
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
The Delerium Live DVD "Epiphany" is now available from Mvd Visual.
"...Bill Leeb's Canadian band 'Delerium' has enchanted concert audiences worldwide with its unique blend of 'Electropop', 'Sacred' and 'World Music', adorned with trance-like female vocals by Kristy Thirsk and Leigh Nash. Filmed in October 2008 at Washington D.C.'s "Nightclub 9:30", with additional footage from Atlanta, West Palm Beach and Montreal, 'Epiphany' captures the 'ethereal essence' of a Delerium performance..."
Produced and directed by Nasty Byte, the DVD also contains the bonus short film "Delerius", a behind-the-scenes romp with the band, including interviews and fan footage.
Tracks include "Angelicus", "Love", "After All", "Terra Firma", "Innocente", "Self-Saboteur", "The Way You Want It To Be", "Twilight", "Flowers Become Screens", "Silence", "Incantation" and "Forgotten Worlds".
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Delerium : Epiphany"...
"...Bill Leeb's Canadian band 'Delerium' has enchanted concert audiences worldwide with its unique blend of 'Electropop', 'Sacred' and 'World Music', adorned with trance-like female vocals by Kristy Thirsk and Leigh Nash. Filmed in October 2008 at Washington D.C.'s "Nightclub 9:30", with additional footage from Atlanta, West Palm Beach and Montreal, 'Epiphany' captures the 'ethereal essence' of a Delerium performance..."
Produced and directed by Nasty Byte, the DVD also contains the bonus short film "Delerius", a behind-the-scenes romp with the band, including interviews and fan footage.
Tracks include "Angelicus", "Love", "After All", "Terra Firma", "Innocente", "Self-Saboteur", "The Way You Want It To Be", "Twilight", "Flowers Become Screens", "Silence", "Incantation" and "Forgotten Worlds".
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Delerium : Epiphany"...
- 1/14/2011
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
The brainchild of industrial music heavyweight Bill Leeb, Front Line Assembly has been plugging away in the genre since the mid-eighties – their prolific career punctuated with numerous lineup changes, a couple of hiatus periods, intermittent breakup rumors and so on... but they always snap back strong, as proven by their nerve-jangling new release Improvised Electronic Device, which rolls out today from Metropolis Records. As with every new album from this Vancouver-based unit, there are some familiar recurring motifs, plus inventive, disturbing new twists that never fail to grab listeners' attention. Read on for a closer examination of the latest creation from these sonic mad scientists... Leeb originally formed...
- 6/22/2010
- FEARnet
Industrial icons Front Line Assembly have announced their return in 2010 with the upcoming Ep release Shifting Through the Lens – the first single from their next full-length album, Improvised Electronic Device. The new material suggests a melding of two previous high-profile records: the muscular, metal-driven Millennium (featured prominently in the Dean Koontz adaptation Hideaway) and the breakthrough follow-up Hard Wired. There's more info about Fla's pending electro apocalypse after the jump... "Have you ever peered [through] a dark keyhole and saw something you were not supposed to?" mused Fla core member Bill Leeb, stating that the chilling vibe of Shifting Through the Lens "brought us together...
- 4/16/2010
- FEARnet
Recently I found myself in a small room, wearing paper pajamas, and kinda doped again. I was in yet another institution, this time for running out of my home and attacking the garbage men with a rubber pepper from Taco Bell. It’s weird, I know, but apparently the boa I was wearing matched the coloration of the pepper, so at least I know I looked good. Anyway, while I was in there I met these guys from Canada. They looked kinda weird -but it may have just been the Thorazine --and said they’re in a band. Apparently, the story goes, they got in trouble for the things coming out of their mouths and the ‘Authorities’ automatically assumed they’re crazy. When you speak out about change, about escaping from the brutal technocratic society of Governmental controlled idiocy that we labor under, people tend to look at you strangely.
- 4/19/2009
- Fangoria
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