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Biography

A few months later, Fallon decided she was over her hang-ups and ready to write again. She bought a sequencer and began tinkering about with it in her basement, curiously exploring the genre that she had admired for so long but had never actively pursued. "I wasn't sure if I wanted to do music, so for awhile I was afraid to create - for fear that I couldn't create," Bowman explains. It was November of 2001, and the political climate around the world was tumultuous at best. "I was getting heavy into politics, because there was a lot of stuff I was reading in the paper and seeing on TV that made me angry and depressed. I felt that writing about it would help exorcise the demons within me - and I had a lot. So songs just started to pour out of me and I would sit for hours, just piecing together whatever made my foot tap."The sound she had originally envisioned was something of a fusion between Ministry's The Land of Rape and Honey's weirdness and KMFDM's Adios' ferocity. However, when the writing began she also found herself listening to VNV Nation's Empires, and a softer, more melody-driven sound came about.

Over the months that followed, Fallon turned her basement into a haven filled with drum machines and synths, where experimental rhythms would bounce off thewalls at regular intervals. From this industrial bunker she meticulously crafted the songs that would become her debut album District 6. He rinfluences are obvious, but the sound is clearly her own - pounding, thunderous beats and unpredictable synths that weave in and out with an almost mathetmatical precision. Fallon's low, throaty, unmistakable voice coils around complex melodies and soars over pulsating rhythms, pushing a modern sound further than one could think possible. Fueled by an unerring passion for conflict and politics, Bowman's music is a thunderous cry for its listeners to stand up and challenge the world around them.

Above all else, the theme of District 6 is revolution. Bowman has long been fascinated by the military and political causes, but the state of the world during the creative period for Amphibious Assault was nothing like anyone had ever seen before. "As you know, with the election of President Bush, many things have transpired. With 9/11 and the imminent War on Iraq, I have certain feelings towards the actions and ideals of the man himself, and how democracy is slowly fusing into a corrupt and semi-fascist conglomerate. I am worried about the spread of globilization, and the pain and suffering as a result of its spread - the suffering, the hate, the torment and exploitation running in the veins of this word is pure and venomous and most of the songs reflect my feelings on that." One needs only to listen to "Searchlight," the first completed Amphibious Assault track, to understand Bowman's political views. An Atlas Shrugged-esque portrait of a post-apocalyptic world destroyed by greed, "Searchlight" carries Amphibious Assault's ultimate message - a warning to its listeners, an inspiration for awareness and above all a concern for the shape of things to come.

Amphibious Assault has taken its questionable beginnings and has turned them into an incredible end product, one which is certain to have a strong impacton its audience. With its raw power and complex musical stylings, District6 is sure to raise many an eyebrow - but as long as it inspires its listeners to think, Fallon Bowman's mission has been achieved.

- Stefanie Schwartz

  Discography

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DistrictSix

In Your Room

Benedictine

Revelation 80128

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Fallon Bowman is Amphibious Assault

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