Thirty years after Obsolete first hit ears and changed the shape of industrial metal, Burton C. Bell sits down—not behind a mic stand fronting a band, but across from you, in a room that holds just fifty people. This isn't a show in any traditional sense. There's no wall of guitars, no pyrotechnics, just Bell's voice carrying the weight of an album that meant something to a generation of listeners. He'll walk through the stories behind the record's creation, pull out his original handwritten synopsis from those early days, and give voice to pivotal moments from the album using nothing but his own spoken word.
The intimacy is the point here. With such a small room, Bell spends real time with everyone in attendance, before the stories begin and after they wrap up. It's the kind of setting where you might find yourself in actual conversation with someone whose work shaped a genre, rather than watching from a distance. The Space's raw, stripped-down performance room suits this kind of evening—no frills, just a storyteller and the people who showed up to listen closely.
For anyone who grew up with Obsolete blasting through headphones or a car stereo, this offers a different angle on the record entirely: the human being behind the concept, sharing what it took to bring that vision to life three decades ago.