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Released
  
October 11, 1994

Millennium (1994)
  
Hard Wired (1995)

Release date
  
1 October 1994

Length
  
62:54

Artist
  
Front Line Assembly

Producers
  
Bill Leeb, Rhys Fulber

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Recorded
  
January 1994 (1994-01) – February 1994 (1994-02), The Armoury Studios, Vancouver, B.C.

Label
  
Roadrunner, Apollon International, Metal Mind

Genres
  
Industrial music, Industrial metal

Nominations
  
Juno Award for Rock Album of the Year

Similar
  
Front Line Assembly albums, Industrial music albums

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Millennium is an album by Industrial artists Front Line Assembly, released in 1994 by Roadrunner Records on both Compact Disc and LP formats.

Contents

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:

  • "Millennium", "Division of Mind": "A New Level" (Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power)
  • "Surface Patterns": "Walk" (Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power), "Don't Tread on Me" (Metallica - Metallica)
  • "Victim of a Criminal": "Dead Embryonic Cells" (Sepultura - Arise).

    • There are also samples from songs of other bands:

  • "Vigilante": "Esperanto" (Elektric Music - Esperanto)
  • "Millennium": "Get Right With Me" (Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion)
  • "Search and Destroy": "Nasa Arab" (Coil Vs. The Eskaton - Nasa Arab), "Religion (Pussy Whipped Mix)" (Front 242 - 06:21:03:11 Up Evil)
  • "Sex Offender": "Shout (US Remix)" (Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair)

    • The album contains several voice and effect samples from a number of films, including these:

  • Falling Down (to which at least the first track is also thematically related)
  • Alien 3
  • Full Metal Jacket
  • The Fly
  • Darkman
  • The Abyss
  • Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
  • Kafka
  • Army of Darkness
  • Evil Dead II
  • Fire in the Sky
  • Reservoir Dogs

    • Track listing

    All tracks written by Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber, except where noted.

    Front Line Assembly

  • Bill Leeb – programming, vocals
  • Rhys Fulber – programming

    • Additional musicians

  • Devin Townsend – guitar (1, 7, 10)
  • Don Harrison – guitar (4, 9)
  • Che the Minister of Defense – vocals (6)

    • Technical personnel

  • Greg Reely – engineering, mixing
  • Delwyn Brooks – assistant engineering
  • Brian Gardner – mastering
  • Dave McKean – design, illustration, photography

    • 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

    References

    Millennium (Front Line Assembly album) Wikipedia
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