Frontline Assembly was incredible! Their sound was perfect and their stage show was very professional. The show included tons of lighting effects that were perfectly coordinated to the music and an array of backing film. They are performing as a four piece band on this tour with each guy taking turns at keyboard/synthesizers/percussion, at times with all four guys performing tribal-sounding percussion over electronic sounds and loops. Each song blended into the next with no pauses or dead space between song
Bill Leeb is a true professional and a great front man. He is completely missing the arrogance or attention-mongering of many lead vocalists and actually seems to be a bit of a trance-like state as he performs. I've seen Delerium, as well, and he is equally at home in front of the stage as a vocalist or in the back as the keyboardist/synth/loop coordinator. Leeb is a very talented and professional performer.
There were FIVE opening acts on this tour and all five were pretty awful. The current state and future of industrial looks pretty bleak if these bands are the up-and-comers of the scene. They all sound virtually the same and are completely uninteresting.
Overall: Five Stars for FLA, one for the rest of the bands.
Galaxy Theatre @
- Santa Ana @
, CA @
- Thu, Jun 9, 2011 @
Setlist: Mostly the new album @
Opening act(s): 1) Didn't catch their name 2)Devil in a Black Dress 3)Cyanotic 4)Dismantled 5)DJ Acucrack @