“Millennium” by Killing Joke

"Millennium" comes off Pandemonium, the 1994 record that hauled Killing Joke back from a four-year silence, the longest break they'd taken since forming. Founding member Youth was back too, taking over bass from Paul Raven and producing, with Greg Hunter adding extra production. The writing credit goes to Jaz Coleman, Geordie Walker, Martin Glover and Hunter.

Its best story is where the voice was caught: the vocal was cut inside the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid of Giza, as were those for "Pandemonium" and "Exorcism". Director Shaun Pettigrew filmed the session, and the footage ended up in the 2013 Killing Joke documentary The Death and Resurrection Show, alongside tales of alleged paranormal happenings. Coleman thought of the whole album as a concept piece about the influence of Arabic music, which makes a pyramid about the most fitting vocal booth imaginable.

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