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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

19 for ’19: An Even More Exhaustive Look/Speculation On What Will Float Yer Collective Boats In The Coming Year

26 December 2018 By jesse 1 Comment

Holy hell do we have to nip this thing in the bud before we even start! The idea was to have 19 solid releases that are in various states of development to fill out our list of most anticipated for 2019 (Get it? 19 in ’19) but then we kept thinking about ALL THE REST that are due (supposedly) so we had to add a precursor to said list which, well, got kind of insane. So for your reading pleasure is this stream of consciousness thing we concocted before the actual list which follows directly after. We even put artists in bold so you can skip around the wordsplosion that’s about to happen. Thanks in advance for reading! [Read more…]

Filed Under: Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Devin Townsend, Drab Majesty, Egowerk, Eldridge Rodriguez, Filter, Front Line Assembly, Ghastly Sound, Harborlights, harborlights band, He Is Legend, Johnny Kelly, Mr. Kitty, Pelican, Rammstein, Richard Patrick, Rock And Roll Fables, Rotting Christ, Sacred Reich, Silvertomb, Slipknot, The Faint, Torche, tr/st, White Bat, White Lies

Delerium Return With Ethereal And Uplifting Mythologie

7 September 2016 By jesse 1 Comment

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It’s been many years since Delerium has graced our earholes and if ever there was a time of stagnant droll which necessitated the duo of Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber to return it would certainly be now. That’s right, Fulber and Leeb are at the helm with a veritable cornucopia of artists ready to diversify and spread the Delerium message. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Bill Leeb, Craig Johnsen, Dave McKean, Delerium, Delerium band, Front Line Assembly, Geri Soriano-Lightwood, Jael, Jared Slingerland, JES, Leah Randi, Metropolis Records, Mimi Page, Phildel, Rhys Fulber, Rock And Roll Fables

Youth Code Preview Upcoming Sophomore Outing With New Single “Anagnorisis”

5 November 2015 By jesse 1 Comment

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Like most other blogs, sites, what have you…at the end of the year I compose a list of not only what was great about the year but also what I think is worth checking out in the next year. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: "Anagnorisis", Dais Records, Front Line Assembly, Nails, Rhys Fulber, Rock And Roll Fables, Ryan William George, Sara Taylor, Todd Jones, Youth Code

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

Front Line Assembly rules all, releases remix album ECHOES!

23 May 2014 By jesse 1 Comment

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Let it be known that I do not like remix albums. At all. Of my favorite artists to do so, there’s only a handful that I find tolerable (Nine Inch Nails’ Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D, Death From Above 1979’s Romance Bloody Romance: Remixes & B-Sides immediately come to mind). I guess I just tend to like the originals more and I’m usually just impatient waiting for another studio album. That said, with a remix artist roster like the one Front Line Assembly has but together for ECHOES, the remix companion to last year’s ECHOGENETIC, my skepticism has been quelled because this is a remix album that’s actually worth a damn.

It doesn’t get much better than this line up: Former FLA-er Rhys Fulber, upstarts Youth Code, Cyanotic, tweaker, and the indomitable force that is Primitive Race are just a few of the artists reinterpreting songs from Bill Leeb, Jeremy Inkel, and Jared Slingerland’s latest opus.

Doing a track-by-track would be a disservice to ECHOES as the the album needs to be experienced as a whole but I will say that it really hits the sweet spot and kicks into high gear when Blush Response’s (Joey Blush of Scar The Martyr) version of “Echogenetic” strikes. Then you get Henrik Blackstrom’s “Exhale”, HECQ’s “Prototyp”, Slighter’s “Leveled”…what I’m saying is, listen to it! It’s epic and undeniably Front Line Assembly at the core.

Did I mention that ECHOES also features two BRAND NEW SONGS? Well, it does! Co-written by Sneaker Pimps’ (Gone, but not forgotten!) Ian Pickering, “Contagion” which opens the album is the result if Delerium and FLA were to make an album together (And yes, I know what the connection is there) while “Next War” is a heavy dance track more in tone with last year’s ECHOGENETIC without the dubstep.

You can get all this and more if you shell out for the digital version of ECHOES on Itunes which features 4 bonus tracks or go with the standard edition which is also available now through Metropolis Records.

 

Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases Tagged With: Bill Leeb, Front Line Assembly, Jared Slingerland, Jeremy Inkel, Metropolis Records, Primitive Race, Rhys Fulber, Rock And Roll Fables, tweaker, Youth Code

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