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21 For ’21 Because Why Not?!? (RNRF Best Of 2021)

30 December 2021 By jesse 1 Comment

I always do like 50 different drafts for just the opening alone then end up with one stripped down thing like this at the end of it all because I just wanna get this ish out there to the masses. 2021 has been up’s and down’s in the world but a pretty solid year overall for music. So much so that I almost considered not ranking my massive list of 21 releases that did it for me in 2021. Almost. As always, thanks for liking and following and most importantly, thanks for reading!

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Filed Under: Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables, Year End Tagged With: Bikini Death Race, Black Label Society, Blutengel, Comatose, Danny Elfman, Eastern High, Epitaph Records, Failure, Fear Factory, Four Stroke Baron, Glaare, Green Witch Recordings, HIPPOTRAKTOR, Lauren Lakis, Mikey Rukus, Ministry, MNRK Heavy, Nefarious Industries, Negative Gain, Nuclear Blast Records, One Hundred Thousand, Out Of Line Music, Pelagic Records, Prosthetic Records, Quicksand, Roadrunner Records, Rob Zombie, Rock And Roll Fables, Spiritbox, Sub Pop Records, Trillionaire, Turnstile, TV Priest, Weyrd Son Records

Rhys Fulber Ends Prolific 2021 With Solo Electronic Epic Brutal Nature

24 November 2021 By jesse Leave a Comment

In a year that has already had Rhys Fulber put out a new Front Line Assembly record, team again with FLA cohort Bill Leeb for the surprise re-emergence of Noise Unit, and work on the final Fear Factory record to feature vocalist Burton C. Bell among other achievements, the prolific producer extraordinaire and electronic wizard has deemed it necessary to also unveil his latest solo release to cap off 2021 and we’re all the better for it.

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Brutal Nature, Fear Factory, Front Line Assembly, Jeza, Noise Unit, Rhys Fulber, Rock And Roll Fables, Sara Taylor, Youth Code

The Rock And Roll Fables 2021 Preview: 13 Slabs Of New Music SURE To Make Your New Year More Tolerable

15 January 2021 By jesse Leave a Comment

And now we begin our downward trend…meaning, of course, that we’ve hit that point where matching up the number of albums on the list with the year we’re heading toward is kind of ridiculous so we’re going to switch with lucky number 13 for the time being.

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Filed Under: Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Brian Welch, Chris Jericho, Deadsy, Dino Cazares, Every Time I Die, Fear Factory, Fozzy, Front Line Assembly, Gojira, Jason Bieler, Jason Bieler And The Baron Von Bielski Orchestra, Lizzard, Love And Death, Lucia, Lucia Cifarelli, Mikey Rukus, Ministry, Rob Zombie, Rock And Roll Fables, RUKUS, Saigon Kick, Stabbing Westward, The Soft Moon, VOWWS, Youth Code

Front Line Assembly Charge Into 2021 With Latest Electro Classic Mechanical Soul

12 January 2021 By jesse 1 Comment

Forget Morgan Freeman, I want Bill Leeb to narrate every inane facet of my life! With biting tones laid out so smooth, can you really think of anyone else who delivers messages of chaos prophesying the end of days so well? For now, though, I’ll settle by hearing Leeb recite mechanically-tinged raspy rhymes on the latest Front Line Assembly record. For now.

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Bill Leeb, Dino Cazares, Fear Factory, Front 242, Front Line Assembly, Jean-Luc DeMeyer, Mechanical Soul, Metropolis Records, Rhys Fulber, Rock And Roll Fables

Ascension Of The Watchers Return With Gothic Post-Rock Epic Apocrypha

7 October 2020 By jesse 1 Comment

With the recent announcement that Burton C. Bell is stepping away from Fear Factory to focus on Ascension Of The Watchers, Apocrypha might just be the most important record of Bell’s career. And upon listening through AOTW’s first full-length since 2008’s Numinosum it’s apparent that, regardless of that news, Apocrypha is destined to be something important.

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Abstract Distribution, Ascension of the Watchers, Burton Bell, Burton C Bell, Fear Factory, Jayce Lewis, John Bechdel, Rock And Roll Fables

Burton C. Bell: A Rock And Roll Fables Conversation

6 May 2016 By jesse Leave a Comment

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Fear Factory’s latest, and ninth album, is barely a year old yet here they are touring the country playing their iconic sophomore album from front to back. Despite the obvious reasons (Um, 20th anniversary of Demanufacture!), the answer for the current tour is actually quite simple as vocalist Burton C. Bell cordially explains via phone: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Interviews, Music, New Releases Tagged With: Al Jourgensen, Burton Bell, burton bell interview, Burton C Bell, Demanufature, Dino Cazares, Fear Factory, Genexus, Mike Heller, Monte Conner, Nuclear Blast Entertainment, Nuclear Blast Records, Roadrunner Records, The Industrialist, the industrialist graphic novel, Tony Campos

15 for ’15: A Rock And Roll Fables Guide To The Best Releases Of The New Year

29 December 2014 By jesse Leave a Comment

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In no way in any sort of order, here’s the albums we think you should be looking forward to in 2015:

1. Amen (TBC/TBA)

No clue what the album is called and no clue when it’s coming out but it should be coming at you in 2015. Casey Chaos is back, my friends! Reinvigorated and alive (Didja see Amen’s triumphant set at Knotfest?!?!?!), Chaos rules next year and is joined by former Amen bassist John Fahnestock and some guy named Dave Lombardo playing drums. Make no mistake, this should be one of the heaviest and most prolific metal release of 2015. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: 36 Crazyfists, Amen, American Head Charge, Brandin Lea, Casey Chaos, Clutch, Corrosion Of Conformity, Duran Duran, Fear Factory, Filter, Guster, Jetta In The Ghost Tree, John Carpenter, John Fahnestock, Jonny Radtke, Killing Joke, Marilyn Manson, Marriages, Noel Gallagher, Sons Of Anarchy, Stabbing Westward, The Dreaming, The Pale Emperor, Torche

Rhys Fulber: A Rock And Roll Fables Conversation

5 September 2014 By jesse 2 Comments

“I just do what I do”

That’s what Rhys Fulber has to say when pressed about whether or not being on a specific label (Armada at the moment for his main musical outlet, Conjure One) influences his musical output. Who is Rhys Fulber, you ask? If you’re a fan of industrial music, metal, ambient electronica and even Pop then chances are you might’ve heard some of producer/mixer/programmer extraordinaire Rhys Fulber’s work over the last 20 or so years.

He’s worked with everyone from Fear Factory to Josh Groban and been a part of outfits ranging from the industrial noiseniks of Front Line Assembly to the ethereal dream makers of Delerium (Also featuring FLA’s Bill Leeb) and previously mentioned Conjure One. But how does a person a person go from “Pisschrist” to “Silence” with Sarah Mclachlan?

“It’s almost always a case of someone approaching you, so it’s really just deciding if you can listen to that music non-stop for a few months. I like to try things outside my comfort zone too, so sometimes the more different, the more exciting.  I did a jazz record in Canada a few years back for instance and that was a great experience.”

As for dream projects, Fulber continues: “I don’t really dream of working with anyone in particular because who is to say the feeling would be mutual!  So other than my childhood hero Pete Shelley,  I will stick to the more tangible, and say Devin Townsend, because we’ve dabbled with some stuff before and it seemed like we were onto something.”

He goes on to describe what the differences are in collaborating with different artists from Bill Leeb to Armin Van Buuren: “Working with those guys is again similar to my role as producer, but being more involved in the songwriting, and helping them get their ideas across. If I was to choose a collaborator myself, I’d go for someone who does something I don’t.  Like a great singer or a good player, guitarist or whatever other instrument.”

“As for producing, it’s really dependent on each artist or band and what they are trying to achieve.  With the heavy stuff it’s usually providing textural keyboards and programming but I’ve also done singer/songwriter type music where the programming gets all stripped away in favor of live players.  I find that when producing you spend most of the record working on vocals and finding the best arrangements for the songs.  So though I’m known for being a programmer, I’d say most of my time goes into the vocal production.”

And just because the man has surrounded himself with a number of prolific industrial artists, don’t expect his Ipod to be filled with tunes of the genre: “Other than the underrated Daniel Myer (Haujobb, Architect), not really.  I kind of checked out after the ‘glory years’ and already by 1992 I was following what became IDM and dance music, then more rock and metal.  Once in a while I will check some stuff out but mostly its either 1999 trance with distorted bro or Depeche vibes or its using the Ministry of 242 puppy-ebbs recipe, none of which interest me.  I think the spirit of what was once industrial music (like the original early ’80’s stuff) lives on more with proto dubstep artists like Burial or artists like Squarepusher.”

Through the producing, mixing, programming, and performing there have obviously been a number of career highs up until now and Fulber was gracious enough to share some of them: “I’m lucky enough to have had several, but if I have to pick two it would be having an actual global hit single with Delerium and Sarah McLachlan, which was both exciting, and surreal (and elusive!), then working with David Foster on Josh Groban because it seems about as far from my industrial beginnings as humanly possible.”

But Fulber’s career is far from over with a number of new projects on the horizon, some hitting sooner than others: “I’m almost finished mixing The Dreaming’s new record.  It’s a logical extension of what they did as Stabbing Westward, albeit more modernized, with lots of hooks and very strong vocal performances. It’s been fun to work on, and I got to add some analog synths as well.  After that its some of the usual suspects: new Delerium, Fear Factory’s next album and I’m almost wrapped the next Conjure One album, which is my main personal outlet now.  As if that’s not enough, there’s some other things running in the background that I don’t want to speak of until they solidify more.”

 

Filed Under: Interviews, Music Tagged With: Bill Leeb, Christopher Hall, Conjure One, Delerium, Devin Townsend, Fear Factory, Front Line Assembly, Rhys Fulber, Rock And Roll Fables, Stabbing Westward, The Dreaming

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