We Have Come for Your Parents

Full title - We Have Come For Your Parents. Australian exclusive tour edition of the alternative metal act's 2000 album includes a seven track bonus disc containing four previously unavailable songs, two live tracks & an enhanced video of 'Too Hard To Be Free'. The bonus audio tracks are 'Motorcade Horizon', 'War In Your Name', 'Room Of Ruin', 'Nice To Be Here' (live from the BBC), 'Another Planet' & 'Justified' (live from Oxford). 2002.

"They're the most extreme band that I've ever worked with," explained Ross Robinson, record producer (Slipknot, Glassjaw, and At the Drive-In) and acknowledged figurehead of the nu-metal movement. He is talking of course about his protegés, Amen, whose recording sessions have culminated in this Californian four-piece's second album, We Have Come for Your Parents, a 45-minute distillation of hardcore attitude, gothic self-hatred, and nihilistic death-metal grind. Oh, and some great tunes, as well. The most obvious is "May Day," which has frontman Casey Chaos flipping Mom's good ol' apple pie off the table, stamping it into the dirt and bellowing, somewhat mystifyingly, "Take your Bible! Burn it alive!" All this unmistakably top stuff is presented without a hint of dilution; Amen know they don't need to shoehorn in a ham-fisted hip-hop loop or uncomfortable junglist foray to get the kids on side. Mom and Dad, watch out--on We Have Come for Your Parents, Amen sound unstoppable. --Louis Pattison