11 Facts About Rhys Fulber

Rhys Fulber is a member of Front Line Assembly and Delerium, along with Bill Leeb.

Rhys Fulber's father, a musician, was born in Germany and his mother was from Great Britain.

Rhys Fulber's father introduced him to the music of Led Zeppelin and Kraftwerk; they both attended a Kraftwerk concert in 1975.

Rhys Fulber became interested in music and started drumming on his father's instruments at a very early age.

Rhys Fulber has cited OMD as his favourite band in his youth.

Rhys Fulber is a first cousin of Shawn Atleo, a Canadian activist and politician, who was elected twice as national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, serving 2009 into 2014.

Rhys Fulber then joined Delerium full-time when Michael Balch left.

Until 1997, Rhys Fulber was involved in all Front Line Assembly, Delerium and side projects with Bill Leeb, including the albums Tactical Neural Implant and Hard Wired from Front Line Assembly, and Semantic Spaces and Karma from Delerium.

Rhys Fulber was nominated for the Jack Richardson Producer Of The Year award at the 2008 Juno Awards and won two Junos with Delerium for Best Dance Recording in 1998 and 2000.

From this more metal themed work followed while Rhys Fulber was contracted to contribute keyboards and de facto additional production to Fear Factory's breakthrough Demanufacture album, defining their signature sound.

Rhys Fulber had contributed backing tracks around this same time to new Canadian industrial rock band Econoline Crush, leading to their signing with EMI Canada and eventually his first full length production job handling their debut album Affliction, spawning minor Canadian rock radio hit "Wicked".