Front Line Assembly | Texas Review | Ralph Arvesen
Front Line Assembly performing during the Moral Hygiene at Emo's Austin in Austin, Texas on May 26, 2023. (Photo: Ralph Arvesen)

Front Line Assembly (FLA) celebrated its third decade in the music industry last year in 2016. Since then the company has gone through many changes. That includes different sounds and members. For example, band members like Michael Balch and Rhys Fulber have played in FLA and several other bands during their musical history. This shows the big influence the band has had on the genre.

Then there’s the history of the band itself. There includes the band’s formation, as well as the eras of Balch, Fulber, Peterson, and the recent years. We provide lots of information about all of these eras so you can learn about the different periods of the band’s history. Our goal is to provide fresh and detailed information so you can better appreciate the band in terms of its past/present members, changes in musical sounds, and so on.

One of the interesting things about FLA is the band has been around for several decades. This makes it more likely you can find some information that you weren’t aware of. That’s one of the main goals of our site, which is keep providing our visitors with new info they can’t find on other sites. This explains why we’re always adding to the site and making posts. So it’s important to keep visiting the site so you can learn the newest information about the band.
FLA has been my favorite band since high school, I never got the chance to see them live. Very happy I did! Their live sound is so tantalizing, it’s like listening to them for the first time. I was lucky to see Bill, Rhys and Tim Skold; their originals. They had such a powerful presence when they came on stage. Basically made you feel like you were going to war. Felt so pumped up and alive for days. Will remember it for the rest of my life.

Overall a really great show. Front Line Assembly put on a very energetic and exciting show. It was a good mixture of new material and many of their previous songs. I definitely look forward to seeing them again.

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. 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.
Setlist for the show at Emo's Austin
  • I.E.D.
  • Killing Grounds
  • Plasticity
  • Rock Me Amadeus
  • Deadened
  • Mindphaser
  • Millennium

Front Line Assembly shared the stage with Ministry and Gary Numan at Emo's Austin. They continue across the United States with the last stop at the The Magic Bag in Ferndale, Michigan on September 21, 2023.

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