AMKEN - Passive Aggression (Digipak) (CD)

On their second full-length album, "Passive Aggression", you can feel that every member exceeded oneself, while pushing each other to bring on their best game at the same time. The result is an album that truly speaks from the heart of the band. The vocals are darker and more in-your-face, and the guitar-work is more melodic but relentless at the same time. It's obvious that the band has evolved, compared to previous releases, and with the contribution of Fotis Benardo (SixForNine, ex-SepticFlesh) behind the mixing desk, "Passive Aggression" shaped to be an album that really makes the band proud. Lyric-wise, the album deals with the continuous battle every human has to make with it's inner self, trying to better understand our very nature, while conflicting with all that our society drops in our face every single day; the stereotypes, the fear, the hate for each other.