Alex Mungal Ignites Falling In Reverse 2025 Touring Schedule With CHAUVET Professional

	Mungal turned the show's generously proportioned rig into a giant canvas of bright light and flames.

Las Vegas metalcore band Falling In Reverse recently completed its five-city Australian arena tour, their first of 2025. Immersing fans right along with the music was a lighting and production design by Alex Mungal that matched the fury of the band's raw performance.

Mungal, the band's creative director and designer, turned the show's generously proportioned rig into a giant canvas of bright light and flames. "We had fixtures spanning from the deck floor to 46' high," he says. "We had them above the IMAG screen as well as throughout the stage.

"Pyro was also a huge part of the show," continues Mungal. "We programmed lighting and SFX together. This let us really incorporate the two to make them work for each other. We used our SFX cues to hide lighting moves, accent hits in trade-offs, and of course, cause absolute chaos and carnage. Our incredible pyro crews -shout out to Howard+Sons -- kept it safe and helped me create a perfect storm of danger without putting the artist at risk. Well, maybe there was a little sense of danger, enough to feel alive. It was definitely hot."

A key part of Mungal's lighting rig was the 72 CHAUVET Professional Color STRIKE M motorized strobe-washes supplied by Showscreens and MPH for the Australian tour. Flown vertically and horizontally, the Color STRIKE M units created a geometrical reference point for the show. Some of the fixtures were arranged in two columns that gradually converged as they got higher, creating a potent towering effect.

Discussing the role of the COLOR STRIKE M, Mungal says, "The fixtures upstage provided our audience light. Our principal artist loves to interact with the crowd and see the sea of people while performing, so I wanted to be able to highlight the crowd without a standard blinder. Additionally, we relied on the vertical fixtures to add to the structure of the rig and give us some alternate shapes beyond just the linear feel from the audience light."

Mungal created a range of colors with his fixtures, many of them inspired by the cinematic music videos and tones of the songs. For the hit "Bad Guy," he called on color to suggest a sense of irony.

"There is a bit of satire in that song, as the lyrics emphasize the terms people love to spew into the world about the artist," he explains. "First time hearing the song, I said 'Oh we're going Disney villain for sure.' So, this palette came straight from the Maleficent dragon in the original Sleeping Beauty animated film."