Passenger | ||||
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Released | 19 January 2007 (EU) 9 February 2007 (US) 21 February 2007 (Japan) | |||
Genre | Industrial metal, groove metal, thrash metal [1] | |||
Length | 52:04 | |||
Label | Nuclear Blast | |||
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Passenger is the third album by Danish industrial metal band Mnemic, and their first to feature vocalist Guillaume Bideau (formerly of Scarve). [4]
Originally, mixing duties were to be handled by Andy Sneap, but the band later decided to have Tue Madsen (producer and mixer on both previous albums) mix instead. Christian Olde Wolbers from Fear Factory also did co-production work for this album. Since this album, the guitarists use downtuned 7-string guitars.
To promote the album, the band went on a tour of North America in January and February 2007 with God Forbid, Goatwhore, Arsis, The Human Abstract, and Byzantine and on a tour of the UK with the Deftones in March.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Humanaut" | 1:52 |
2. | "In the Nothingness Black" | 5:02 |
3. | "Meaningless" | 3:43 |
4. | "Psykorgasm" (feat. Jeff Walker and Shane Embury) | 4:13 |
5. | "Pigfuck" | 4:26 |
6. | "In Control" | 3:51 |
7. | "Electric I'd Hypocrisy" | 3:52 |
8. | "Stuck Here" | 4:41 |
9. | "What's Left" | 4:10 |
10. | "Shape of the Formless" | 4:07 |
11. | "The Eye on Your Back" | 7:30 |
No. | Title | Length |
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12. | "Zero Synchronized" | 4:37 |
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