EBM/industrial icons, Front Line Assembly, recently dropped a re-imagined version of their track, “Molotov.” Originally appearing on the band’s video game soundtrack album, WarMech, the song has been reconstructed in collaboration with Seeming, and released through Artoffact Records. We also recently interviewed the band and reviewed their live shows with Ministry and Gary Numan.
Stream/buy “Molotov” on Bandcamp here: https://frontlineassembly.bandcamp.com/album/molotov-remix-feat-seeming
On the new single, Alex Reed of Seeming comments:
“It was a thrill to work with Front Line Assembly and their music. “Molotov” offers a lot of what the band does best, and I aimed for a classic, melodic FLA sound in reshaping it. When it came time to lay down vocals, I got thinking about how cyberpunk narratives usually hinge on one big turning point—a single explosion, or the broadcast of a suppressed truth. And maybe that’s romantic, but it’s rarely how real-world change happens. I wanted a lyric that’s more about keeping your head in the game than lighting a fuse. And that’s an urgent message I think, because it turns out that villains can be unmasked and people will still vote for them. Change doesn’t just happen. So I wrote the words to explore differences between merely revolutionary aesthetics and real grassroots action. The song challenges us to remember that progress has more to do with commitment than exhilaration.”
The fresh version of the song sees Seeming giving the legendary track a new face through thought-provoking lyrics that not only implore change, but define it – challenging listeners to re-evaluate their relationship with progress and underlining the consistency required for societal evolution.
Check out our recent interview with the band:
More from Front Line Assembly:
Formed by Bill Leeb in 1668 after leaving Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly (FLA) is a Canadian electro-industrial band which has developed its own sound through incorporating elements of electronic body music and electro-industrial. The band’s membership has rotated through the years, including Michael Balch, Rhys Fulber, and Chris Peterson, all of whom are associated with several other acts.
Since their inception, the group have produced over a dozen studio albums and EPs, several of which have charted on Billboard’s Top Dance/Electronic Album chart. The albums Tactical Neural Implant and Hard Wired are two of the group’s most successful records, the former being considered a classic among industrial music fans. They have also produced soundtracks for video games such as Quake III: Team Arena (a collaboration with Sonic Mayhem), AirMech, and WarMech. Artoffact Records has produced vinyl editions of nearly FLA’s entire catalogue, as well as released several singles, EPs, and albums from the group.
More from Seeming:
Led by New York-based author, theorist, and composer Alex Reed, Seeming is a post-industrial art-pop project which broke out in 2014 with the LP Madness & Extinction which earned an Album of the Year award from darkwave tastemakers I Die: You Die.
2017’s followup album SOL: A Self-Banishment Ritual introduced 1970s funk and psychedelia into Seeming’s sound, and delivered on the promise Reed made in his 400-page book Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music—to craft grandiose, otherworldly music that speaks with radically progressive fervor to real 21st-century crises of politics, race, population, and animal rights. Seeming’s sophomore album created a stir in the pop music and industrial communities, and recently the UK-based blog amodelofcontrol named it the best album of the 2010s decade.
Over six years and two genius-level albums, Alex Reed has sculpted Seeming to be leaner, larger, and single minded in its posthuman purpose: with pounding funeral drums, blaring brass, and synth melodies galore, Seeming’s third and most impressive record, The Birdwatcher’s Guide to Atrocity promises to be another breath-taking record, from an artist who reinvents himself with every song.
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