Second Coming

Second Coming is the second album, delivered on 9 November 2018. The line-up is unchanged: Atkins singing, Mårtensson on guitar, bass and keyboards and producing, Magnus Ulfstedt on drums. The method changed, though. Atkins explained it himself: the first album was something of a pilot project, made before they really knew each other, whereas this time they talked a great deal about the direction of the individual songs and he was more involved in the writing, mainly on the lyrics. Don't copy the first record, but don't step too far from the original formula either — that was what the two agreed. There are eleven tracks. From the opening “My Fear & My Faith” into “Because of Us” and “It Burns,” the choruses land in a single pass while the arrangements keep their weight. Videos directed by Renè U Valdes were made for those two. Being a side project for both Pretty Maids and Eclipse, the hours the pair could spend in one room were always limited. Past the drive of “Walk Me Through the Fire,” it closes on “Outrun You.” The appeal is that it never averages the two men out; it pushes each of their strengths straight to the front.