Austrian-born industrial spearhead Bill Leeb has been up to this noise forever. He stepped out decades ago as “Wilhelm Schroeder” of Skinny Puppy. 1986 brought on Front Line Assembly, when Leeb teamed up with Rhys Fulber and Michael Balch. Epitaph is the product of a four-year partnership with Chris Peterson. Their newest CD takes several steps back in the direction of Tactical Neural Implant (1990), one of Front Line’s apex releases – whose spray remains on the industrial hydrant. This ubermodern descent to dark-edge disco patterns is a Leeb-Peterson segue to the Leeb-Fulber affair with guitar (circa 94) and promises the ‘old school’ tech-industrial fans some pretty swell sequencing, dusted with the bleakness you’d expect from one of the dudes responsible for Morpheus Laughing…and his new buddy Chris.