Millenium Is Our Featured Artist - February 2010
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 Polish progressive rock band Millennium has been making music together for eleven years. Ryszard Kramarski, the band's keyboardist, also owns Lynx Music, the label to which the band is signed. Millennium has already released eleven albums, and a new one is on the way.
A live DVD and CD is due out before the end of February and in March, Millennium’s vocalist, Lukasz Gall, is releasing his first solo album. A new studio album for the band won't be released until 2011, but the band is currently touring in Poland and hopes to tour the rest of Europe soon.
Even though they're Polish, Gall sings in English. Kramarski said they play in a language that isn't their native one for several reasons, the main one being that singing in English sounds best for the genre and makes the vocals an instrument. They also feel that most of their audience speaks English and that Gall's accent comes through well.
Throughout the eleven years they've been together, Millennium has seen the progrock genre go through many changes. Kramarski said he doesn't like the “progmetal” that's come out lately. “For me, Dream Theater should remain the only performer of this kind of music,” he said, adding that people seem to forget about traditional bands that started the genre like Genesis.
Progrock has made a comeback recently, but Kramarski said Millennium feels more appreciated outside Poland. “Progressive rock was once very popular in Poland,” he said, “Now it's a niche, only for some very sophisticated but faithful listeners.”
Owning Lynx music has helped Millennium, even though Kramarski said he sometimes gets distracted when he has other projects to work on. Lynx Music has released over 60 bands so far, most of which have been progrock.
Millennium has been together for eleven years – Kramarski started a band with his cousins over 15 years ago which slowly turned into Millennium, named such because the band started in 1999 and the world was approaching a new millennium. They make solid progressive rock that stays true to the genre's roots, and their main goal as a band is to just release good music and play good live shows. Kramarski said he's heard again and again that the best progrock comes from Poland, and he's definitely right.
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Abbey Davis-MuzikReviews.com Staff
February 28, 2010
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