Released October 11, 1994 Release date 1 October 1994 | Length 62:54 | |
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Nominations Juno Award for Rock Album of the Year Similar Front Line Assembly albums, Industrial music albums |
Front line assembly vigilante
Millennium is an album by Industrial artists Front Line Assembly, released in 1994 by Roadrunner Records on both Compact Disc and LP formats.
Contents
- Front line assembly vigilante
- Release
- Singles
- Musical style
- Samples
- Track listing
- Front Line Assembly
- Additional musicians
- Technical personnel
- Awards
- Songs
- References
Release
The album was re-released on July 30, 2007 by Polish record label Metal Mind Productions as a limited two disc remastered edition. The second disc of which contains all of the remixes and B-sides from the Millennium and Surface Patterns singles. The re-release was issued on golden discs and was limited to 2000 copies and numbered.
The track "Surface Patterns" is featured on the soundtrack album of 1995 American horror film Hideaway.
Singles
The release of the Millennium single preceded the release of the album. The single contains three remixes of the title song. Non-album track "Transtime" uses a sample from the song "Home Computer" which was released by German electronic music band Kraftwerk on their 1981 album Computer World. "Transtime" is also featured on the compilation album Monument. The video clip that was shot for the track "Millennium" was filmed in Seattle and Chicago.
The second single Surface Patterns features three remixes of the title track and non-album track "Internal Combustion". The cardboard case is mislabeled "Suface Patterns" on the spine.
See also Disc 2 in Track listing.
Musical style
Shifting from the electronic music dominated style of Front Line Assembly's former works, Millennium makes heavy use of metal guitars. "[W]e just wanted to like do a different kind of record and just basically broadened our sound and our appeal", Bill Leeb said in an interview with Chaos Control about the change in sound, adding, "we also wanted to challenge the fans that we have, the listeners, because I’ve always been a die-hard purist in electronic music. I mean, if I could change I thought anybody else could, too." Some of the guitar sounds are used as looped samples, some are played live in the studio. A further addition to Front Line Assembly's sound on Millennium is rap on Victim of a Criminal.
Samples
Millennium borrows guitar riffs from several metal songs:
There are also samples from songs of other bands:
The album contains several voice and effect samples from a number of films, including these:
Track listing
All tracks written by Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber, except where noted.
Front Line Assembly
Additional musicians
Technical personnel
Awards
Millennium was nominated for the Juno Awards of 1995 in the category Best Hard Rock Album.
Songs
1Vigilante6:28
2Millennium6:10
3Liquid Separation5:05