Amen (Amen album)

Amen is the second studio album by American rock band Amen and its first for a major label, released on September 21, 1999, by I Am/Roadrunner Records. The first track on the album, "Coma America", became the band's first single. In 2001, the album was re-released with four new bonus tracks.

Amen
Studio album by
Amen
ReleasedSeptember 21, 1999
StudioIndigo Ranch, Malibu
GenreNu metal, alternative metal, hardcore punk
Length42:44
Label
ProducerRoss Robinson
Amen chronology
Slave
(1995)		 Amen
(1999)		 We Have Come for Your Parents
(2000)
Singles from Amen
  1. "Coma America"
    Released: November 29, 1999[1]

Amen was recorded by Casey Chaos on vocals, Shannon Larkin on drums, Sonny Mayo and Paul Fig on guitar and John Fahnestock a.k.a. Tumor on bass guitar. The album was produced by Ross Robinson who had worked with Casey Chaos and helped him to sign to Roadrunner Records. It was released by Robinson's imprint label, I Am. The album sold around 15,000 copies in its first year.[2]

Releases

In 2001, the album was re-released by Roadrunner Records and included the four unreleased songs from the single of "Coma America". At this point, Amen had already switched to Virgin Records.[3] The reissue was denounced by the band's frontman Casey Chaos, who released a statement, saying: "Don’t buy our record. Just don’t buy the fucking album. What I want to do is just press up 1000 CDs of the B-sides (from ‘Coma America’) and give them away at the shows for free or tell people to go to fucking Napster.”[4]

In 2007, Metal Mind Productions re-released the album in a new digipack edition on gold disc, digitally remastered using 24-Bit process, with a limited run of 2,000 hand-numbered copies.[5]

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [6]
Kerrang![7]
Metal Hammer10/10[7]
NME7/10[8]

Kerrang! placed Amen at number 22 on their list of "The 50 best albums from 1999" in a retrospective list from 2020.[9] Metal Hammer featured the album on their list of "The 10 most underrated Roadrunner Records albums", calling it "Possibly the most intense album that Roadrunner released in the late ‘90s (yeah, even including Slipknot)".[10][11] In 2022, Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor named Amen as one of the "10 records that changed [his] life", saying:

"That album is so fucking good! I remember when it came out – I had just bought a CD player for my shitty car, we had three days off on the Slipknot tour and I finally got to drive my car. I got that piece of shit car way faster than it should have been able to go to the sound of that album."[12]

Track listing

All songs written by Casey Chaos.

No.TitleLength
1."Coma America"2:18
2."Down Human"3:44
3."Drive"3:08
4."No Cure for the Pure"3:23
5."When a Man Dies a Woman"3:30
6."Unclean"2:50
7."I Don't Sleep""2:25
8."TV Womb"2:38
9."Private"3:12
10."Everything Is Untrue"4:19
11."The Last Time"2:16
12."Fevered"2:28
13."Broken Design"2:23
14."Resignation/Naked & Violent"4:09
Total length:42:44
2001 bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
15."Whores of Hollywood"1:45
16."Lovers are Killers"2:55
17."Life Crime"1:23
18."Black God"4:14

Credits

Personnel

Production
  • Ross Robinson - producer, A&R
  • Chuck Johnson - engineer, mixing on "Coma America"
  • Rob Agnello - engineer
  • George Marino - mastering
  • Steve Evetts - mixing (tracks: 3, 5 to 18)
  • Joe Barresi - mixing (tracks 2 and 4)

References
  1. Griffiths, Nick (1999). "Say Your Prayers". Rock Sound. Archived from the original on January 24, 2003. Retrieved 2023-05-08 – via whoresofhollywood.com.
  2. Krgin, Borivoj. "CD Reviews - We Have Come for Your Parents". Blabbermouth.
  3. "Amen", Discogs
  4. "AMEN'S DEBUT HASN'T A PRAYER!". NME. 2001-02-01. Archived from the original on 2022-02-18. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  5. http://www.metalmind.pl/en/metalmind_news789.html%5B%5D
  6. Amen at AllMusic
  7. "Amen | Roadrunner UK Website". roadrunnerrecords.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2001-02-09. Retrieved 2023-05-05.
  8. NME (2005-09-12). "Amen". NME. Retrieved 2023-05-05.
  9. "The 50 best albums from 1999". Kerrang!. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
  10. updated, Stephen Hilllast (2016-09-21). "10 obscure Roadrunner Records albums that should have been massive". louder. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
  11. Louder (2019-06-11). "20 classic albums turning 20 in 2019". louder. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
  12. updated, Terry Bezerlast (2016-11-20). "Corey Taylor: 10 albums that changed my life". louder. Retrieved 2023-04-13.


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