1. Bill Leeb is best known for being a founding member of the industrial music group Front Line Assembly and Delerium.
13 Facts About Bill Leeb
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Bill Leeb began his musical career with industrial band Skinny Puppy in 1984 under the pseudonym Wilhelm Schroeder, contributing bass synth and occasional backing vocals to a few of their recordings and concerts.
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Bill Leeb left in 1986 and formed his own industrial project Front Line Assembly with Michael Balch, and later Rhys Fulber and Chris Peterson.
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Bill Leeb composed the soundtrack to the 1999 video game, Quake III Arena, of which the expansion pack, Team Arena, was composed by his band, Front Line Assembly.
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In 2017, Bill Leeb appeared as guest singer on the single A Shiver of Want, a release of John Fryer's project Black Needle Noise.
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In 2022, Bill Leeb contributed vocals for Black Asteroid's single Methane Rain.
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Bill Leeb explained that the idea of a solo album was suggested by Metropolis founder Dave Heckman, who passed away before the album's release.
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In 1990, Bill Leeb appeared in the trailer for the horror movie Chunk Blower together with Dwayne Goettel from Skinny Puppy, playing one of the victims of a killer.
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Bill Leeb has both Austrian and Canadian citizenship and speaks English as well as German.
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Bill Leeb received education at a convent school in Austria where he learned to play the violin.
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Bill Leeb moved to Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada with his family when he was 14, where he learned English and developed a keen interest in music.
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Bill Leeb was a high school student at Mount Elizabeth Secondary School.
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Bill Leeb went to Camsoun College in Victoria, British Columbia to study journalism for two years.