Millennium (Front Line Assembly album)
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| Studio album by Front Line Assembly | ||||
| Released | October 11, 1994 | |||
| Recorded | January 1994 – February 1994, The Armoury Studios, Vancouver, B.C. | |||
| Genre | Industrial metal | |||
| Length | 62:54 | |||
| Label | Roadrunner, Apollon International, Metal Mind | |||
| Producer | Bill Leeb, Rhys Fulber | |||
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| Infectious Substance | Unfavorable |
| Melody Maker | Unfavorable |
| Sea of Tranquility |  |
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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