{"id":8211,"date":"2024-07-09T19:01:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T00:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=8211"},"modified":"2024-07-09T19:01:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T00:01:16","slug":"bill-leeb-front-line-assembly-delerium-unleashes-terror-forms-feat-shannon-hemmett-of-actors-teasing-debut-solo-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=8211","title":{"rendered":"BILL LEEB (Front Line Assembly, Delerium) unleashes ‘Terror Forms’ feat. SHANNON HEMMETT (of ACTORS), teasing debut solo album"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Industrial-Electronic trailblazer BILL LEEB (Front Line Assembly, Delerium)
releases ‘Terror Forms’ feat. SHANNON HEMMETT (ACTORS, LEATHERS)
FOR FANS OF: Front Line Assembly, Skinny Puppy, Front 242, Nitzer Ebb,
KMFDM, Machine Girl, Gesaffelstein, Locked Club, Oneohtrix Point Never
FORMATS: CD, Limited Edition double-album on bleach-pattern vinyl & digital<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Bill Leeb’s ‘Terror Forms\u2019 is a frenzy-filled dose of sonic adrenaline that is
infectious and, paradoxically, suitable for the dancefloor. All the better due to the
fact that this track also brings in tandem vocals by another brilliant Vancouver artist
\u2013 namely Shannon Hemmett\u2026 Is dystopian bliss a thing? They could be on to
something big here” ~ The Spill Magazine<\/p>\n\n\n\n


“Instantly recognizable, but \u201cTerror Forms\u201d still sounds like something unmistakably
new\u2026 Shannon Hemmett adds an ethereal vocal presence to the sinister synthetic
soundscape” ~ Rock and Roll Fables<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Beguiling industrial-electronic music legend Bill Leeb presents \u2018Terror Forms\u2019, the
first taste of his debut solo album ‘Model Kollapse’, to be released via US-based
label Metropolis Records. Introducing this record, which reflects the dystopian,
nihilistic world we have created in so many different ways, ultimately asking the
question “When will the human voice be lost to AI and technology\u2026.or will that be
what saves us in the end?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Based in Vancouver, Bill Leeb is the mastermind behind highly influenitial electroindustrial scene mainstays Front Line Assembly and ambient-pop duo Delerium,
having gotten his start with Skinny Puppy (under the pseudonym Wilhelm
Schroeder). He is also a key member of other occasional recording projects,
including Noise Unit, Intermix and Cyberaktif.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u2018Terror Forms\u2019, which features Shannon Hemmett of Vancouver post-punk
quartet ACTORS and her solo project LEATHERS, explores the intricacies of
artificial intelligence and the very survival of humanity itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u2018Model Kollapse\u2019 marks Leeb’s first solo venture since the mid-80s days of Front
Line Assembly, when he used to make recordings in his bedroom and released
them on limited edition cassette format. This album also involves contributions by
LA-based artist Mimi Page, a long-term Delerium collaborator, and Jason
Corbett of ACTORS and Jacknife Sound Studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Almost four decades on, his new album was recorded and produced in Vancouver,
Toronto and Los Angeles with assistance from Vancouver\/Toronto-based
production duo Dream Bullet and long-term FLA\/Delerium cohort Rhys Fulber,
plus regular mixing engineer Greg Reely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Hard-edged yet melodic, danceable and very much song-oriented rather than
soundscape-driven, the ‘Model Kollapse’ album carries traces of hard-edged
electronic dance music pioneers such as Front 242, DAF, KMFDM and Skinny
Puppy, as well as his own oeuvre. However, it also displays the influence that acts
like these had on latter day artists such as Gesaffelstein and ADULT, not to
mention music that came to be known as darkwave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Earlier, Nina Heckman of Metropolis Records shared, “We are proud to
announce that Metropolis Records has signed Bill Leeb for his first solo project. Bill
Leeb has had a prolific career as a founding member of Skinny Puppy, Front Line
Assembly and Delerium. His music has been highly influential, and we are excited
to see what this new chapter in his career will bring for him and his listeners. I’m
honored to fulfill my father’s (Dave Heckman) lifelong vision and to be doing this
project with a lifelong family friend I can honestly call family (Bill Leeb). This project
is near and dear to all of our hearts here at Metropolis and I know it would make my
father proud.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Leeb acknowledges the role that Metropolis Records has played in his recording
career since the late 1990s, noting that \u201cMetropolis Records have been and are
one of the most important labels for alternative music on this planet and this album
was made possible by my long-standing friendship with Dave Heckman (RIP), who
continuously supported us through the ages and gave us complete artistic
freedom\u201d. Tragically, Heckman died in the summer of 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Back in 1987, Leeb formed Delerium as a side project, exploring dark ethereal
ambient trance, voiceless soundscapes and electronic pop music. Since their debut
1994 ‘Semantic Spaces’ album, Delerium has received two Juno awards and
enjoyed many collaborations, involving with Leigh Nash (Sixpence None the
Richer), Lisa Gerrard (Dead Can Dance), Kirsty Hawkshaw (Opus III), Emily
Haines (Metric), Jacqui Hunt (Single Gun Theory), Matthew Sweet and Kristy
Thirsk (Rose Chronicles). Their worldwide hit ‘Silence’ with Sarah
McLachlan reached #1 in numerous countries, its remixes also hailed among the
greatest trance songs of all time (the Ti\u00ebsto remix was voted the 12th-greatest
dance track of all time by Mixmag readers).<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u2018Terror Forms\u2019 is out now everywhere digitally. On September 13, the full \u2018Model
Kollapse\u2019 album will be released on vinyl and CD, as well as digitally.<\/p>\n\n\n

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CREDITS
Recorded and produced in Vancouver, Toronto, Los Angeles and the Okanagan,
British Columbia
Written and produced by Bill Leeb and Dream Bullet
Additional production by Rhys Fulber
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Greg Reely
‘Terror Forms’ performed by Bill Leeb and Shannon Hemmett
Album artwork by Allen Jaeger
Released by Metropolis Records
Publicity by Shauna McLarnon for Shameless Promotion PR
Artist photos by Bobby Talamine<\/p>\n\n\n\n


ALBUM TRACK LIST
1 Demons
2 Exotic Matter
3 Neuromotive
4 Folded Hands
5 Pinned Down
6 Terror Forms
7 Muted Obsessions
8 Simulation
9 Infernum
10 Erosion Through Time
11 Sound Mirrors<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Keep up with Bill Leeb<\/p>\n\n\n\n


www.instagram.com\/leebbill
https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bill.leeb.3
https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/frontlineassembly
https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Delerium
https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1165081291007981
https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/0kEvfoqW1Dngp5DvbyzmXW
https:\/\/music.apple.com\/ca\/artist\/bill-leeb\/187074
If you have any questions, contact Shauna McLarnon from Sh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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