We Have Come for Your Parents

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We Have Come for Your Parents
Amen We Have Come for Your Parents.jpg
Studio album by
Amen
ReleasedOctober 31, 2000
RecordedMay 2000
Studio Sound City Studios, Los Angeles, California
Genre
Length44:12
Label
Producer Ross Robinson
Amen chronology
Amen
(1999)		We Have Come for Your Parents
(2000)		 Join, or Die
(2003)
Singles from We Have Come for Your Parents
  1. "The Price of Reality"
    Released: 2000
  2. "Too Hard to Be Free"
    Released: February 17, 2001
  3. "The Waiting 18"
    Released: July 21, 2001

We Have Come for Your Parents is the third studio album by American rock band Amen, released on October 31, 2000, through I Am Recordings and Virgin Records. The album was the band's second to be produced by Ross Robinson. The album was mixed and engineered by Mike Fraser at The Warehouse in Vancouver, BC. The title of the album refers to The Dead Boys album We Have Come for Your Children .

Contents

Musical style

This album saw Amen continue the nu metal/hardcore punk blend that marked their entire career, as well as the political and socially-charged lyrics that were persistent in the band through the writings of Casey Chaos.

Promotion

A promotional audio cassette called PropAMENda was released in the United States in advance of the album by Virgin Records America in the Summer of 2000. [4] The cassette contained two tracks: "Refuse Amen" and "PropAMENda (Excerpts From Forthcoming Album)", a 6-minute-long track featuring excerpts from the album.

The song, "The Price Of Reality", was released as an early single for the album, along with a promotional music video. The video itself depicted Casey Chaos re-creating Figure with Meat by Francis Bacon, along with various images of "Americana" such as Boy Scouts and girls in Sunday School outfits with axes. The video would later be released on the Streetwise DVD series in FYE in 2002.

Two more singles would be released after the album's release. "Too Hard to Be Free" would go on to reach Number 72 on the UK Official Chart on February 17, 2001, [5] while "The Waiting 18" went on to be the highest ranking single, reaching Number 61 on the same chart on July 21, 2001. [6]

Release and reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Blabbermouth.net 4/10 [8]
Drowned in Sound 10/10 [9]
Kerrang! Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg(2000) [1]
Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg(2011) [10]
Metal Hammer 10/10 [11]
NME 8/10 [12]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Rock Sound Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [2]
Terrorizer 9/10 [13]
Wall of Sound 69/100 [14]

We Have Come for Your Parents became Amen's most successful album, reaching Number 77 on the U.K. Charts on November 11, 2000, [15] making it their breakout album in the United Kingdom. However, the album was largely unsuccessful in the US, where it did not chart and went on to sell 15,789 copies by 2002. [16]

We Have Come for Your Parents received rave reviews from critics upon release. Drowned in Sound , Metal Hammer and Rock Sound all awarded the album perfect scores, [9] [2] with Metal Hammer's review noting the album was "something to give metal the clout round the beanie it so badly needs right now." [11] In a four-star review, Kerrang! 's Mörat called it "a brilliant album—vicious, unrelenting and poisonous." [1] Q magazine's Valerie Potter called it "far superior to their rather messy debut." [3] Stuart Green of Exclaim! stated that the album "is about as brutal and honest a hard rock record as you're likely to hear this year." [17] Likewise, Victoria Segal of NME noted its lack of "pantomime" and "self-parodic angst", giving it an 8 out of 10. [12] CMJ New Music Monthly labelled it "punk in spirit [and] vaguely metal in execution", comparing its sound to early Rollins Band. They added, "even though Mr. Rap Metal produced We Have Come for your Parents, you won't hear any signs of the au courant rhyme and grind here." [18]

Blabbermouth.net was one of few major media outlets which did not give the album a positive review, awarding it a 4 out of 10. Borivoj Krgin wrote: "Although Amen should be credited for pursuing a style that has little in common with their Southern Californian counterparts, the group's tuneless, noisy approach gets tiresome very quickly, with Casey's obnoxious, high-pitched screaming proving to be more irritating than effective, in the process adding a touch of abrasiveness to the songs that is bound to turn off many a discriminating listener. [19] AllMusic's Tim Sheridan awarded the album three stars out of five, criticizing its "hackneyed lyrics" and finding its vocal delivery "oddly unaffecting". [7]

Metal Hammer picked "The Price of Reality" as the best music video of 2000, and the second best single of the year. [20] In 2002, "The Price of Reality" was ranked at number 62 on Kerrang! 's list of the "100 Greatest Singles of All Time". [21]

Accolades for We Have Come for Your Parents
PublicationListYearRankRef.
Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 200020004
666 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die!2011N/A
The 50 Best Albums From 2000202034
Metal Hammer Top 20 Albums of 200020002
The Top 10 best albums produced by Ross Robinson20168
NME NME Recordings Of 2000200044
Rock Sound Critics’ Poll 200020002
The 250 Greatest Albums of Our Lifetime2019249
Terrorizer Albums Of The Year 2000200022

Other editions

A limited edition copy came out in Australia during the Big Day Out 2002. It includes the CD We Have Come for Your Parents and another CD with unedited songs from all the singles as well as a multimedia track on with a clip of "Too Hard To Be Free".

A deluxe version of the album was released on January 5, 2013.

Track listing

All songs written by Casey Chaos. [30]

No.TitleLength
1."CK Killer [lower-alpha 1] "1:58
2."Refuse Amen"2:45
3."Justified"3:15
4."The Price of Reality"3:17
5."Mayday"3:03
6."Under the Robe"3:55
7."Dead on the Bible"3:05
8."Too Hard to Be Free"2:44
9."Ungrateful Dead"3:38
10."Piss Virus"3:27
11."The Waiting 18"3:17
12."Take My Head"2:42
13."In Your Suit"2:45
14."Here's the Poison"4:09
Total length:44:12
2013 Deluxe Edition Bonus Tracks
No.TitleLength
15."Affording Heaven"2:57
16."In These Pills..."2:34
17."War in Your Name"1:47
18."15+ Not Alive"3:36
19."Room of Ruin"3:23
20."Nice to Be Here (Live on BBC)"3:19
21."Motorcade Horizon"3:15
22."Another Planet"3:55
23."Freedom Now!"1:26
24."I Don't Bleed"3:06
25."Murder Is Alright"2:19
26."Europe [Killing Joke cover](Live on BBC)"3:58
27."Justified (Live)"3:26
Total length:74:00

Credits

Personnel per liner notes. [30]

Amen

Production

Charts

Chart (2000)Peak
position
Scottish Albums (OCC) [31] 68
UK Albums (OCC) [32] 77

Notes

  1. ↑ listed as "Calvin Klein's the Killer" in album liner notes [30]

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