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06/20/09 Seattle, WA
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06/26/09 Long Beach, CA 06/27/09 Hollywood, CA
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Legion Within is a dark rock band hailing from Seattle, WA, combining industrial and darkwave to create their own distinctive sound. Mouth of Madness was released today (6/16/09) on KDFDM Records and is their fourth album, following 2007's the empty men. The band was formed in 2000 by singer-songwriter William Wilson, and their current lineup includes Wilson (vocals, guitar), Shannon Cole (guitars), Erica Butler-Branch (bass), Aaron Nicoles (percussion), and Jasyn Byrum (synthesizer).
The album took two years to complete and apparently was creatively wrought from the personal tragedy and upheaval the band members experienced during that time. This isn't a bad thing, as industrial and darkwave music have connections in the goth culture, e.g. topics of romance, tragedy, escapism, dark humor and other subjects covered in this album are definitely part of the territory. Of course, goth-punk culture enjoys a fairly comfortable spot in their hometown environs of Seattle. Legion Within has opened for acts such as Peter Murphy, Collide, Voltaire, Audra, and God Module; they will be opening for the namesake of their record label, KDFDM, in the fall of this year.
Described as a "dark mosaic of musical genres and styles", Mouth of Madness is slated to be the group's breakthrough release, and I can confirm it covers such a wide variety, from gothic ambience on one side to driving industrial on the other. This seems to be a band best enjoyed live, however, which also seemed to be indicated in the press release for this album. So definitely check them out at a concert if you're up this way.
To illustrate my point, here is their "teaser trailer" for "Somebody's Speaking":
The album took two years to complete and apparently was creatively wrought from the personal tragedy and upheaval the band members experienced during that time. This isn't a bad thing, as industrial and darkwave music have connections in the goth culture, e.g. topics of romance, tragedy, escapism, dark humor and other subjects covered in this album are definitely part of the territory. Of course, goth-punk culture enjoys a fairly comfortable spot in their hometown environs of Seattle. Legion Within has opened for acts such as Peter Murphy, Collide, Voltaire, Audra, and God Module; they will be opening for the namesake of their record label, KDFDM, in the fall of this year.
Described as a "dark mosaic of musical genres and styles", Mouth of Madness is slated to be the group's breakthrough release, and I can confirm it covers such a wide variety, from gothic ambience on one side to driving industrial on the other. This seems to be a band best enjoyed live, however, which also seemed to be indicated in the press release for this album. So definitely check them out at a concert if you're up this way.
To illustrate my point, here is their "teaser trailer" for "Somebody's Speaking":
06/16/2009 23:41:28♥ jaklumen (
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