Front Line Assembly
Rich sonic textures off the Assembly line.
Mechanical Soul METROPOLIS
The album title Mechanical Soul sums up the life’s work of Canadian
electro-industrialists Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber. Across their career they’ve created hypnotic, robotic soundscapes, then pasted in ice-cold, ethereal
human voices. Interestingly, the group have come full circle stylistically over the decades. Having started out as a purely electronic concern in the mid-80s, they introduced increasingly heavy guitar in the 90s and collaborated with Fear Factory. Upon returning to their roots almost 10 years ago, however, they all but eschewed the axe, and
Mechanical
Soul
is a virtually guitar-free zone, save for a few power chords from Fear Factory’s Dino Cazares on the punchy
Stifle.