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Pain of Salvation - A Cold Walk - Promo 2009

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Eskilstuna, Sweden (1984 – present)

Pain of Salvation is a progressive rock band from Eskilstuna, Sweden. The band centres on lead vocalist, guitarist, composer, and writer Daniel Gildenlöw.

Trademarks include concept albums focusing on social, environmental, philosophical, and emotional issues as well as songs that incorporate complex rhythms and time changes but retain flowing melodies.

The band was formed by Gildenlöw in 1984 under the name Reality. The band used to participate in many music contests in their homeland of Sweden. The first EP, Hereafter, was recorded in 1996 under the monicker Pain of Salvation, which has been the name of the band since 1991. The Lineup of the band was the same for their first official full length album, Entropia(1997).

After the departure of Daniel Magdic for continuing disagreements with the others over committing to the increasing demands of the band, the band recorded One Hour By The Concrete Lake(1999), a concept album about the issues of nuclear power/waste, disposition of indigenous peoples,industry and human discovery. The band began to receive more attention from critics and magazines all around the world. In 1999 they also played at the famous ProgPower festival in The Netherlands.

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  • Darkes7

    I really want Enter Rain live... I'm so incredibly jealous of people who got to see that. Also The Deeper Cut and Sisters.

    19 May 11:49am Reply
  • Tenozuma

    Agreed. Anyone have any clues as to how long it'll be for a new album?

    19 May 10:00am Reply
  • TheBehind

    They MUST play Gone live at least once. In a fancy ass good quality dvd.

    18 May 1:08pm Reply
  • r0ryb0ryalis

    @nnmore - I agree with the crowd reaction, I was extremely confused. I'd chalk it up to several things though: lights came on immediately, which was terribly disorienting and did indeed seem to finalize the show; it was 1:30am and with 3 opening bands was a pretty lengthy show, so tiredness (but as a big enough PoS fan this shouldn't matter of course!); with Daniel's illness I was rationalizing it all by thinking to myself "There's no need for an encore, the man needs rest!". Lol, I'm glad Clay came back out to snap us out of our delusions!

    17 May 6:36pm Reply
  • roblaidlow

    TPE3 next

    15 May 8:53pm Reply
  • Henkkles

    The bastardization of the spelling of Árstíðir is making my eyes bleed.

    15 May 2:20pm Reply
  • nnmore

    @r0ryb0ryalis to be fair, the crowd didn't exactly respond with enthusiasm when the band left before their encores, but you are correct that they shouldn't have turned the lights on and cut their power. The band were fucking amazing though, even if Daniel was sick! Hopefully they can return again soon.

    12 May 1:12am Reply
  • r0ryb0ryalis

    Venue in Chicago tried to kick PoS and us out before their encores, cutting the sound to most instruments and turning the lights on. Of course the band responded with a big "NO WAY!" ;) No mic, no problem. Bass and drums were all they needed, the crowd did the rest!

    11 May 7:41am Reply
  • carlitosindamix

    We love you, Daniel. And seeing you performing while sick as fuck only strengthened the bond. You're the shit as they say in... http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo4MMEOy25jfb9mi7TCxrav5GT1pF1sIt

    10 May 4:21pm Reply
  • bazinko

    Get better, Daniel! ...Please.

    8 May 2:43am Reply
  • Darkes7

    Actually I found the set to be very surprising, there were few songs I had actually expected. There were many older songs, sure, but lots of those haven't been played for ages or I wouldn't really expect (King of Loss?). I found the balance of older/newer to be just fine. And totally agreed on the atmosphere and Arstidir.

    5 May 10:54am Reply
  • Thorens

    Was a bit disappointed with the acoustic show. Too few surprises, too many old songs (not that I don't like their old stuff, but I really hoped they were going to mainly do lovely acoustics renditions of Scarsick/Road Salt material). The atmosphere was great though. Very "homely". Oh, and Astidir were exceptional. What a band.

    2 May 12:33pm Reply
  • torge_d

    Hey fellow PoS listeners, my instrumental progressive rock band Ysma has just released their first album, Vagrant. It's fully streamable and two songs can be downloaded for free. Feel free to check it out and post what you think! :)

    1 May 2:57pm Reply
  • Darkes7

    Fortunately not (sorry, but I really _hate_ the 12:5 version, even though the whole 12:5 is great), it was just much more minimalistic and melancholic than the original. Absolutely beautiful imo.

    28 Apr 9:11pm Reply
  • ShortSonata

    Did they do Ashes like the 12:5 version? 'Cause damn is that sexy.

    26 Apr 1:08pm Reply
  • Darkes7

    Stress was quite funny, but nothing cracked me up more than the Holy Diver cover. :D Also, I absolutely loved the acoustic versions of Mrs Modern Mother Mary and Ashes, both were quite dramatically different from the originals, and still perfectly captured the mood and feel of the songs. (I'm not mentioning e.g. Chain Sling and 1979, because they were fairly close to the album versions - but then they were wonderful anyway)

    26 Apr 12:15am Reply
  • bazinko

    The U.S. tour is approaching quickly and they still haven't announced any West coast dates... anyone else been checking their site daily? :D

    25 Apr 5:27am Reply
  • Third__Eye

    Does anybody know if there's something somewhere out there that looks like a tracklist of the upcoming 'clean' album?

    25 Apr 12:27am Reply
  • Third__Eye

    The performance on Stress is hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9Qmwc1wvnY&list=PLuqAqkCPcDGJfkjam0IpUOljG4mz5XNJI&index=3 Thank you @torge_d for recording and sharing this!

    25 Apr 12:16am Reply
  • torge_d

    Their current touring guitarist is Roger Öjersson and he's great. I asked him about news about Ragnar, but there's nothing official yet. Here are some videos I made at their acoustic show in Essen, Germany. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuqAqkCPcDGJfkjam0IpUOljG4mz5XNJI I especially recommend to watch Chain Sling.

    24 Apr 11:13am Reply
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