Millennium (Monstrosity album)

Millennium
Studio album by Monstrosity
Released	August 27, 1996
Recorded	Morrisound Recording, Tampa, Florida
Genre	Death metal
Length	40:14
Label	Conquest (US) Nuclear Blast (worldwide)
Producer	Scott Burns, Monstrosity
Monstrosity chronology
Imperial Doom (1992) Millennium (1996) In Dark Purity (1999)

Millennium is the second studio album by Florida death metal band Monstrosity, released in 1996 and produced by Scott Burns. Millennium is the band's final album to include George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher on lead vocals, as he went on to join fellow death metal band Cannibal Corpse.^{[ citation needed ]}

The album was released on Conquest Music, Inc worldwide and licensed to Nuclear Blast for a European release. It was later licensed by Hammerheart Records (Netherlands) and re-released in the early 2000s for Europe.^{[ citation needed ]}

The album is considered by many to be a landmark in technical death metal.^{[ according to whom? ]}

Musical style

On Millennium, Monstrosity showcases a more technical approach to death metal than on their previous release, Imperial Doom . The guitar work in particular is markedly more advanced than on their debut, utilizing jarring dynamic changes such as quick jumps from tremolo picking to rapid power chord changes.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Fatal Millennium"	Morgan, Harrison	4:35
2.	"Devious Instinct"	Morgan, Harrison	4:02
3.	"Manic"	Harrison, Van Erp	3:30
4.	"Dream Messiah"	Morgan, Harrison	4:25
5.	"Fragments of Resolution"	Morgan, Harrison	5:08
6.	"Manipulation Strain"	Morgan, Harrison, Van Erp	4:02
7.	"Slaves and Masters"	Fisher, Harrison, Van Erp	3:13
8.	"Mirrors of Reason"	Morgan, Harrison	3:34
9.	"Stormwinds"	Harrison, Van Erp	4:59
10.	"Seize of Change"	Rubin, Harrison	2:46
Total length:			40:14

Personnel

Monstrosity

• George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher – vocals
• Jason "Tux" Morgan – guitars
• Kelly Conlon – bass
• Lee Harrison – drums

Additional musicians

• Jason Avery – backing vocals on track 2, 4, 5 and 7

Production

• Scott Burns – mixing, producer, recording
• Keith Rose – mixing
• Scott Kieklak – mixing

References

• Millennium at AllMusic . Retrieved 16:19, 6 December 2020 (UTC).