PAIN will launch a brand new album, “I Am”, on Might 17 through Nuclear Blast Data. With the primary single “Go With The Move”, the Swedish industrial undertaking units the tone for its upcoming ninth LP. Accompanied by a high-quality video that includes actor Peter Stormare (Palme d’Or-awarded “Dancer In The Darkish”, “Fargo”, “Jail Break”, “The Huge Lebowski”) and Peter Tägtgren, PAIN makes a triumphant return.
Tägtgren feedback: “‘Go With The Move’ takes me again to ’80s synth pop. Writing in additional of that route was an concept that I had for some time, so I began taking out analog synths and going loopy, and, in fact, I wanted to come back again to a catchy PAIN refrain. The toughest half was to jot down lyrics to the tune, and to determine what model to make use of to sing… the lyrics are about me at all times being destructive and needing to let issues go when issues do not go as deliberate and to brush it off and transfer on.”
“I Am” monitor itemizing:
01. I Simply Dropped By (To Say Goodbye)
02. Do not Wake The Lifeless
03. Go With The Move
04. Not For Sale
05. Social gathering In My Head
06. I Am
07. Push The Pusher
08. The New Norm
09. Revolution
10. My Angel
11. Truthful Recreation
It is 2021 and a pandemic is strangling the world — and nobody appears to be having enjoyable. Seemingly tireless music freak Peter Tägtgren could not care much less as he hits the jackpot with — pardon the cruel language — a fucking catchy… nicely, celebration anthem. We’re in fact speaking in regards to the tune “Social gathering In My Head” by Tägtgren‘s synth-infused steel undertaking PAIN.
“I do not actually know what it’s about ‘Social gathering In My Head’ that made — nonetheless makes — folks go loopy for it,” Peter says. “However what I do know for positive is that the tune has already been loved tens of millions and tens of millions of instances. The numbers are fairly loopy! In fact, PAIN is not any stranger to writing danceable and catchy, albeit metallic shit… It is at all times been within the DNA of this undertaking. However let’s face it: if the world actually wants ‘celebration anthems’ from a cynical geezer like me, one thing’s critically fallacious.”
Our beloved planet could also be screwed, however there nonetheless would not appear to be a lot fallacious in PAIN‘s world as 2024 ticks quick on the calendar. There merely cannot be, as a result of PAIN‘s eagerly awaited new studio album “I Am” is quickly right here — sure, after eight years of devoted ready.
“The earlier file ‘Coming Residence’ got here out in 2016 — and, in fact, there was a tour after that,” Peter explains. “In 2019, I launched an album known as ‘F&M’ with RAMMSTEIN singer Until Lindemann, a undertaking I left in 2020. In 2021, it was time for my loss of life steel band HYPOCRISY to get energetic with a brand new album ‘Worship’ — and, in fact, we toured once more. If that wasn’t sufficient, let’s add that there was a studio album with Joe Lynn Turner in 2022… In different phrases: the final eight years have handed within the blink of an eye fixed. In spite of everything this, it was the right time for PAIN to go full drive once more. I felt excited to say the least. For sure, the success of ‘Social gathering In My Head’ gave the album course of an explosive begin!”
Let’s get one factor straight: the powerful-sounding “I Am” is really a flexible — if not probably the most versatile — musical missile in PAIN‘s wealthy discography. The brand new songs go in all places with heavy industrial riffs, haunting melancholic vibes and groove-filled rhythms — with out forgetting surprises, in fact.
Peter says: “There isn’t any boundaries with PAIN. I simply get an attention-grabbing thought for a tune and alongside the way in which it may flip into something. Generally I additionally prefer to intentionally shock folks by following an thrilling musical path the place surprising issues occur.
“If I had one large purpose this time, it was so as to add extra depth and edge to the songs,” he provides. “‘Coming Residence’ turned out nice, however trying again now, I used to be possibly a bit too deep into my ‘David Bowie worship’ with the orchestral stuff and the acoustic guitars. This time round, I positively needed extra tempo, aggressiveness and an industrial ambiance. Going again in direction of the outdated instances of PAIN? Perhaps a bit…”
“‘I Am’ can be extra of a household affair than ever earlier than. My son Sebastian — additionally a PAIN drummer — wrote the music of ‘Revolution’ and ‘Do not Wake The Lifeless’. These absorbing songs add width to an already versatile album. All in all, finishing ‘I Am’ required a whole lot of composing, writing, pondering, experimenting, doing and re-doing. It was a protracted and typically difficult course of, however by no means painful!”
Talking of surprises… What tune will give followers the largest wow impact this time?
“It have to be ‘Go With the Move’,” Peter says. “I dare to insist that when it begins rolling, even the deep connoisseurs of PAIN music are questioning what the heck is occurring right here. I might say it is my ‘DEPECHE MODE within the ’80s’ tune’.”
“Lyrically, ‘Go With The Move’ represents a barely brighter second within the darkness. I at all times are inclined to assume that all the things goes to hell, however with this tune I inform myself, ‘come on dude, let issues be for as soon as and drift’.”
There could also be these uncommon rays of sunshine from the beacon, however darkness nonetheless prevails.
“The album’s title monitor begins with the road ‘there isn’t any hope within the valley of loss of life’,” Peter says. “And if I take a look at the lyrics, I might dig up quite a bit different examples of comparable sinister moods. However hey, a sarcastic man like me and such gloomy instances we reside in… Are you anticipating some sunny faces right here? Effectively, sunny or not, PAIN goes to be busy for the foreseeable future. There will probably be a whole lot of touring to help the file. Summer time festivals, in depth excursions right here and there and extra.
“And what in regards to the future anyway? Ask me once more in eight years and there have been a number of studio albums from totally different bands, a whole lot of gigs and one thing else. Sure, I’m what ‘I Am’…”
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