PAIN today announce their highly anticipated new album I Am, due out May 17th via Nuclear Blast Records. With the first single “Go With The Flow”, the Swedish industrial project PAIN sets the tone for their upcoming 9th album “I Am”.
Accompanied by a high-quality video with actors Peter Stormare (Palme d’Or winner Dancer in the Dark, Fargo, Prison Break, The Big Lebowski) and Peter Tägtgren, PAIN make a triumphant return with the new track.
Watch the video for “Go With The Flow” here:
Peter Tägtgren comments:
„Go with the flow takes me back to 80’s synth pop. Writing in more of that direction was an idea that I had for a while, so I started taking out analog synths and going crazy, and of course I needed to come back to a catchy Pain chorus. The hardest part was to write lyrics to the song, and to figure out what style to use to sing… the lyrics are about me always being negative and needing to let things go when things don’t go as planned and to brush it off and move on.“
„I Am“ Tracklist:
I Just Dropped By (to say goodbye)
Don’t Wake The Dead
Go With The Flow
Not For Sale
Party In My Head
I Am
Push The Pusher
The New Norm
Revolution
My Angel
Fair Game
About PAIN
It’s 2021 and a pandemic is threatening the world – and no one seems to be having fun. The seemingly tireless music freak Peter Tägtgren doesn’t care because he’s hit the jackpot with a – pardon the harsh words – a damn catchy… well, party anthem. We’re of course talking about the song ‘Party in My Head’ from Tägtgren’s synth-heavy metal project PAIN.
Peter is having fun:
„I don’t really know what it is about ‘Party in My Head’ that made – still makes – people go crazy for it… But what I do know for sure is that the song has already been enjoyed millions and millions of times. The numbers are pretty crazy! Of course, PAIN is no stranger to writing danceable and catchy, albeit metallic shit… It’s always been in the DNA of this project. But let’s face it: if the world really needs ‚party anthems‘ from a cynical geezer like me, something’s seriously wrong“.
Our beloved planet may be fucked, but not much seems to be going wrong in the world of PAIN, with 2024 quickly ticking on the calendar. That simply can’t be the case, because PAIN’s highly anticipated new studio album “I Am” is soon here – yes, after eight years of dedicated waiting.
Peter adds:
„The previous record “Coming Home” came out in 2016 – and of course there was a tour after that. In 2019, I released an album called “F & M” with Rammstein singer Till Lindemann, a project I left in 2020. In 2021, it was time for my death metal band Hypocrisy to get active with a new album “Worship” – and of course we toured again. If that wasn’t enough, let’s add that there was a studio album with Joe Lynn Turner in 2022… In other words: the last eight years have passed in the blink of an eye.
After all this, it was the perfect time for PAIN to go full force again. I felt excited to say the least. Needless to say, the success of ‘Party in My Head’ gave the album process an explosive start!“
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