In the glow of endless screens and flections that make us gaze ever more towards our outer shells, we face a hall of mirrors—real yet intangible, portals yet prisons—reflecting our fractured psyche in glitch-ridden visions of fractured chaos. Like Alice Through the Looking Glass, we descend into digital delirium, conjured from the neon haze of Blade Runner, Neuromancer, and their paranoid worlds. Here, cyberpunk meets industrial music, mechanised beats and static screams scoring our cultural decay, digital overload, and eroded identities.
From this fractured landscape, Frontal Boundary storms forth: dark electro warriors armed with abrasive aggression and spectral synth lines. Initially ignited by Brendin Ross as a solitary sojourn, they’ve since swelled into a searing trio.
Now, following 2024’s fierce album Shutting Down, Frontal Boundary blasts back with Hollow, heralding the fierce vocals of Unter Null. Together, they forge fury and feeling into something savage, yet sincere. The new work roars relentlessly, rhythms writhing like live wires, synths swirling in shadowed splendor. It signals a spirit stubbornly surviving silence, ready to reclaim and renew its rightful roar.
Their newest single, Hollow, howls into existence with the ferocity of their forebears like Skinny Puppy and Front Line Assembly. Industrial aggression, EBM’s relentless rhythms, Aggrotech’s anxious energy, and dark synth’s sorrowful sweep all crash and collide, sewn seamlessly into savage symmetries. Vocals wrench and writhe, beats batter without mercy, and melodies weave whispers through wounded wonder…an electric elegy echoing into the heart’s darkest corners.
“Thoughts come together to form ideas,” says Ross. “Years of heartache, depression, betrayal, love, animosity, passion, the good times and the bad… All accumulate into one thing: sound. Music comes from the fingertips of emotion, a roller coaster of life.”
Mirror portals pulse at the core of Christopher Lee Trueman’s video for Hollow, fractured reflections refracting raw emotion. Glass splits, souls surge, spirits stretch through the splintered surface. Lights lash wildly; sharp flashes capturing tension tangled in twisted images, conjuring ghostly glimpses into wounded worlds. Trueman’s vision summons the sinister essence within the song. Hollow becomes a Through The Looking Glass for modern times, delivering dread distilled through distorted eyes and desperate yearning.
Watch the video for “Hollow” below:
Born in 2002, Frontal Boundary began as Brendin Ross’s solitary sonic endeavor, though swiftly shelved as life stormed in. Six silent years slipped by before Brendin resurrected his restless rhythms, releasing the instrumental intensity of Never Ending in 2008. Soon after, Mindfuck made its stark statement on the Genetic Defekt Census compilation. Yet turbulence returned, sidelining Frontal Boundary once more until 2012, when Electronic Warfare arrived, bruised and burning with Brendin’s own hard-lived history. Tracks emerged as raw reflections of reality’s relentless trials.
You can listen to Hollow below. There is also a limited edition CD available via Re:Mission Entertainment. This album is chock full of remixes from Læther Strip, Antibody, GenCAB and more! Order it here.
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