Amen

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 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. It sold around 15,000 copies in its first year. Background and recording After moving to Los Angeles in the early 1990s, vocalist Casey Chaos formed Amen in 1994. The band's debut album, Slave (1994), achieved little success upon release but would come to the attention of producer Ross Robinson three years later. Robinson would soon sign Amen as the first act on his I Am Recordings imprint, distributed by Roadrunner Records. Amen was recorded at Indigo Ranch Studios in Malibu, California between mid-1998 and early 1999. According to Joel McIver, the recording sessions for Amen "[went] down in popular legend as one of the most demanding interactions between man and [recording] console ever". Chaos was infamously known to have been taken to hospital after slicing an artery in his hand and breaking his ribs whilst recording his vocals one day, and suffered black eyes due to the intensity of his singing. The album was recorded back-to-back with Vanilla Ice's Hard to Swallow, Machine Head's The Burning Red and Slipknot's self-titled debut album; Chaos would end up helping Robinson with Vanilla Ice's album and was forced to sleep in one of the studio's vocal booths for six months as a result.