Millennium

Front Line Assembly followed up the dancefloor-friendly Tactical Neural Implant with this 1993 release, which seemed more aimed at moshpits. Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber sampled riffs from songs by Metallica, Pantera, and Sepultura, and even brought in Strapping Young Lad’s Devin Townsend to play guitar on three tracks. The singles, the ultra-abrasive but still catchy “Millennium” and the gloomier, more anthemic “Surface Patterns,” placed the duo somewhere between the Ministry/KMFDM and Front 242/Nitzer Ebb sides of industrial dance music, indulging a love of metal while still wanting to get dancefloors pumping. They even embraced hip-hop on “Victim of a Criminal,” though whether that was a good idea or not will be up to the individual listener.