Contact
The Benjamin Gate
Forefront Records

I don't like to pick a group apart and focus on one particular person but it's Adrienne Liesching's vocals that really grab me on the Gates' debut (untitled) and their newest release (Contact). It's her distinct accent and verbalized attitude which gives you goose bumps.

Of course it takes more than extreme vocals to make the artful distortion that Benjamin Gate does so splendidly. Collectively they produce some of the most cutting edge-futuristic-techno rock. Fast and furious and high energy is "Contact", top example is "Do What You Say."

"Contact" is as it's billed, "revolutionary" and "progressive." Read more about them and how tragedy brought them together at Forefront's web site.

- Ken W.