Daily Arts Writer

It's no wonder that Amen released their third album titled We Have Come For Your Parents on Halloween. It's terrifying, mainly because you know what this band is going to sound like even before you listen to the album: Really crappy. I wonder if the members of Amen dressed up as a moderately loud metal band with a wining lead singer that has nothing important to say, because that wouldn't be much of a costume. These guys are horrible. This is pretty apparent by the third track on the album when you can recall the last two. That's considering that you didn't turn it off already, because besides the fact that every track off the album sounds the same, the band has almost nothing to say that's worth listening to.

Amen's lyrics could be summed up with a series of grunts, screams, screeches, the occasional yell (the yells are actually quite impressively long) and the common death to all rhetoric, life sucks, no one understands me, boo hoo hoo talk. I haven't quite figured out the pattern yet. I hope that these guys are just trying to appeal to some marketed confused audience; otherwise they need some serious psychological help. Somebody needs to come for your parents and give them a long, long talk.

Don't quote me on this, the promo doesn't include lyrics, (surprise, surprise) but I'm pretty sure that in the track "Justified" includes the lyrics "We burn the lives of all the women in church." Feminists attack! Luckily for everyone's sake you actually have to listen carefully to pick up on something like that. Listening to this album is about the last thing that you should do with it. A nice shiny coaster is a better alternative. Please save yourself the money, time and many long painful headaches.

Grade: D