Millennium Metal – Chapter One
Millennium Metal – Chapter One is the debut album by the German power metal band Metalium. It was released in 1999 by the German label Massacre Records and distributed in the USA by Pavement Music. Millennium Metal is a concept album and the first chapter of the ongoing saga of the mythic warrior Metalium. The story continues on their second album, State of Triumph - Chapter Two, released the following year.[3]
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| Released | 25 June 1999 | |||
| Recorded | February–March 1999 | |||
| Studio | Impulse Recording Studio, Hamburg, Germany | |||
| Genre | Power metal | |||
| Length | 51:05 | |||
| Label | Massacre | |||
| Producer | Lars Ratz, Chris Caffery | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [1] |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 7/10[2] |
Track listing
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Notes | Length |
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| 1. | "Circle of Fate (Intro)" | Mike Terrana | 1:47 | ||
| 2. | "Fight" | Lars Ratz | Ratz, Matthias Lange | 3:11 | |
| 3. | "Dream of Doom" | Terrana, Ratz, Lange | Lange, Ratz, Terrana | 3:33 | |
| 4. | "Break the Spell" | Ratz | Lange, Ratz | 3:56 | |
| 5. | "Revelation" | Terrana, Ratz, Lange | Chris Caffery,Lange, Ratz, Terrana | 3:21 | |
| 6. | "Metalium" | Terrana, Ratz, Lange | Ratz, Lange, Terrana | 4:35 | |
| 7. | "Metamorphosis" | Terrana, Ratz, Lange | Ratz, Lange, Terrana | 5:18 | |
| 8. | "Void of Fire" | Terrana, Ratz, Lange | Ratz, Lange, Terrana, Caffery | 2:39 | |
| 9. | "Free Forever" | Terrana, Ratz, Lange | Ratz, Lange, Terrana | 4:09 | |
| 10. | "Strike Down the Heathen" | Ratz | Lange, Ratz | 3:44 | |
| 11. | "Pilgrimage" | Terrana, Ratz, Lange | Caffery, Ratz, Lange, Terrana | 5:09 | |
| 12. | "Metalians" | Terrana, Ratz, Lange | Ratz, Lange, Terrana | 4:08 | |
| 13. | "Smoke on the Water" | Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, Ian Paice | Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice | Deep Purple cover | 5:36 |
| 14. | "Burning" | Accept | Accept | Accept cover, digipak edition bonus track | 7:50 |
Personnel
- Band members
- Henning Basse - lead vocals
- Chris Caffery - guitars, co-producer
- Matthias Lange - guitars
- Lars Ratz - bass, producer, mixing
- Mike Terrana - drums, narration
- Additional musicians
- Ferdy Doernberg, JP Genkel - keyboards
- Roland Grapow - guitar solo on "Metalium"
- John Osborn - drums (touring only)
- Production
- JP Genkel - engineer, mixing
- Tommy Hansen - pre-mastering
- Alexander Krull - mastering
References
- Huey, Steve. "Metalium - Millennium Metal review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2012-12-06.
- Popoff, Martin (August 1, 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 276. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
- "Metalium - Millennium Metal - Chapter One". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 2011-05-04.
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