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There are at least five bands named “Pain.”

1. Sweden’s Pain is an industrial metal band. The band started out as a hobby project for Hypocrisy front man Peter Tägtgren, whose idea was to fuse metal with electronic influences. Tägtgren is the only official member. Pain’s self titled debut was released in 1996, and since, Pain has released five more albums (one album featuring Anette Olzon from Nightwish), nine singles and a DVD.

“MUSIC IS everything to me. I’ve been through two divorces and a whole world of shit because of music but still it is the most important thing in the world to me. I’d rather have music than anything else.”

So speaks 36-year-old Peter Tägtgren, musician, producer and creative brain behind Pain. His has been a life immersed in music, in pushing boundaries, and taking ideas to both their logical and illogical extremes. It’s been a career that has involved fronting bands – notably Hypocrisy, and now Pain – or shaping their sounds – as he has done with Celtic Frost, Children Of Bodom, Dimmu Borgir and Immortal, among others. It’s a calling that has made him one of Sweden’s most respected musicians and producers. But, with Pain’s new album ‘Psalms Of Extinction’, he now wants to take things one step further. Now, in his own words, he’s ready to make his band Pain, “the biggest fucking band in the genre. I want this to be huge on a worldwide scale.”

TÄGTGREN’S CAREER began in Hypocrisy, the atmospheric death metal band that he created, fronted and led. “But, in 1996,” Tägtgren says, “I realised I wanted to write some more heavy metal based music. I didn’t want to change Hypocrisy because I didn’t think that band had finished developing in its own genre.

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industrial metal, metal, industrial, swedish, alternative
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morg0mir wrote:
yesterday evening

KOVENANT IS NO FUCKING SIMILLAR TO THIS SHIT,GET IT OFF FFS

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The_Fenix wrote:
Friday afternoon

soon in my lists

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SaberX wrote:
Thursday evening

nevermind my post below here. Now I've watched the music vid I completely understand it.

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SaberX wrote:
Thursday evening

I don't understand why Shut Your Mouth is owning the charts.... it's a nice song, but not that good. It actually is a pretty annoying song when you listening it more then 2 times in a row....

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illninodreadie wrote:
Thursday afternoon

BOO! Swedish Pain owns all of the Pain's!

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Cutman3030 wrote:
Wednesday morning

Let's hear it for the punk group Pain! Woo!

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STUCK_MAN wrote:
last week

PAINightwish would be fun to see and hear. although I doubt there's gonna be any collaborations of those two bands.

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Lionheartattack wrote:
last week

Fortunately my comment was just a joke; I can't possibly imagine how two so individualist, original and wonderful artist egos could survive together. :) Well, they couldn't, that's for sure. Their music so different. I like both though. :P And I don't comment the beautiful part! :D

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os_teriyaki wrote:
last week

Haha, I did notice that, how they both have the twin-beard syndrome xD But I can't see Peter working in Nightwish, can you imagine him and Tuomas working in the same band? They're two creative genii who I don't think would submit to each other over anything xD And please, Peter is much, MUCH more beautiful than Tarja :3

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Lionheartattack wrote:
last week

Pain should join Nightwish. Don't you think his beard is like what Marco Hietala's beard must have been way back when it was still short? And he kinda looks like a male Tarja Turunen. :D

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os_teriyaki wrote:
14 days ago

Bah, I only just found out that Play Dead was a cover. At first I was disappointed Peter didn't write it, but I guess it makes sense. Also, I love Bjork's original, very stirring, but Peter improved it by miles :3 And finally: The Rasmus version of Play Dead sucks majorly. Just saying xD

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Reincarnation14 wrote:
19 days ago

Peter the ingenious musician. Music - business of all his life

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SplitneX wrote:
21 days ago

who the fuck cares what metal genre pain is?.. It's all metal to me.

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EinHippie wrote:
last month

Do you mean the tags? Some tagged it as "industrial" and "metal", that's why there is industrial...I think someone said this just before?

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melez102 wrote:
last month

Pain is not industrial guys.

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gosub_ wrote:
last month

nice pic

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Eagle-owl_ADF wrote:
last month

God, I love Tagtgren... His songs are amazing. And "Psalms of Extinction" is the best album.

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OrgiusDomine wrote:
last month

Brilliant band and the figure of Peter.. He is truly a metal icon, one of two my dearest musicians, other one is Devin Townsend... Great job on both Pain and Hypocrisy!

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boyled01 wrote:
last month

pointpurple - i have all pain albums and i can't pick one thats better than any others. they are all awesome

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os_teriyaki wrote:
last month

I love Cynic Paradise ;___; Even if the other albums (which I haven't heard yet DX ) are better, that doesn't stop CP from being a great album in its own right!

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