"Mainly Neurotic Energy Modifying Instant Creation" (the acronym for Mnemic) is a pummeling and punching quintet of five Danes who've been hanging out on the fringes of the scene since 1998. They've quietly and persuasively won an international audience for themselves based on their original demos and their two previous albums -- 2004's Audio Injected Soul was universally acclaimed for its blend of speed, texture, genre-bending styles and sheer aggression. Passenger goes a step further, but with a twist: the band's new vocalist is Guillaume Bideau (ex- Scarve). Recorded in L.A. with Fear Factory's Christian Olde Wolbers at the helm, Passenger is a study in human entropy: the lack of involvement in one's life leads to not only the wrong kind of pacifism, but to the decay of the senses, of logic, and of the ability to make sense of emotions, psychological states and spiritual impulses; one can site inspirational sources from Jean-Paul Sartre to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are many inspirations for the themes in these songs, but what matters is that they rock like an unholy prophet assembling the masses for deprogramming.