PAIN, the industrial metal project spearheaded by Peter Tägtgren, will be releasing their ninth studio album “I Am” on May 17th through Nuclear Blast. Actor Peter Stormare (‘John Wick‘, ‘Constantine‘) appears in the video for the first single from the record, “Go With The Flow“. Stormare previously worked with Tägtgren in Lindemann.
Tägtgren commented of the track:
“‘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.”
Tägtgren also spoke of the record:
“If I had one big goal this time, it was to add more intensity and edge to the songs. ‘Coming Home‘ turned out great, but looking back now, I was maybe a little too deep into my ‘David Bowie worship’ with the orchestral stuff and the acoustic guitars. This time around, I definitely wanted more tempo, aggressiveness and an industrial atmosphere. Going back towards the old times of PAIN? Maybe a bit…
“‘I Am‘ is also more of a family affair than ever before. My son Sebastian – also a PAIN drummer – wrote the music of ‘Revolution’ and ‘Don’t Wake the Dead’. These absorbing songs add width to an already versatile album. All in all, completing ‘I Am‘ required a lot of composing, writing, thinking, experimenting, doing and re-doing. It was a long and sometimes challenging process, but never painful!”
“I Am” track listing:
01 – “I Just Dropped By (To Say Goodbye)”
02 – “Don’t Wake The Dead”
03 – “Go With The Flow”
04 – “Not For Sale”
05 – “Party In My Head”
06 – “I Am”
07 – “Push The Pusher”
08 – “The New Norm”
09 – “Revolution”
10 – “My Angel”
11 – “Fair Game”
Pre-orders are available through pain.ffm.to/iampain.
