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- Pain is an industrial metal band from Sweden. The band started out as a hobby project for front man Peter Tägtgren, whose idea was to fuse metal with techno influences. Tägtgren, who is also the vocalist/guitarist of Hypocrisy and producer of his own The Abyss studios, is the only current member. Pain's self titled debut was released in 1997, and since then Pain has released four more albums, and a DVD. In early February of 2006, blabbermouth.net reported that Pain had signed with Roadrunner Records. At the moment Pain is on tour as a supporting band for Nightwish.
Member:
* Peter Tägtgren - Vocals and all instruments
Discography:
* Pain (1997)
* Rebirth (1999)
* Nothing Remains the Same (2002)
* Dancing with the Dead (2005)
* Psalms of Extinction (2007)
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http://www.pain.cd/
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http://www.myspace.com/officialpain
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DUBLINERS!
4 Apr 04.41 2008
First thing first. You Dubliners really kicks some serious ass! The outcome of tonights show was a really nice suprice. It was a pleasure charing the atmosphere with you tonight. We have to come back now, and we're already longing for it. Kick ass!!
Second. When I came back to our dressing room after have seen the NW show there was a huge flower arangement waiting for me. It took me a couple of minutes to settle down an realize who it came from. You see, earlier today I gave a hockey shirt with Friday The 13'th theme to Ewo, NW manager, and he decided to show his gratitude to me with this nice smelling arangement. Wow! Guys like him doesn't grow on trees :-)
Anyway. In a couple of minutes we're leaving for Manchester to do the last UK show of this tour. Feels a bit sad. We've had a great time here and are actually already working on a come back since the last PAIN album just got out in the UK stores. Go and get it, NOW!!
http://www.pain.cd/ontour.php
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PAIN biography
“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. I really wanted to allow that to happen but I also wanted to experiment with other sounds. That’s why I set up Pain.”
A solo-project in which Tägtgren played every instrument, it was originally something he thought of as a heavy metal band. One day though, he did something that would change the project forever. “I got a PC and started to fuck around with some more beat-based stuff and one thing lead to another,” he says. All of a sudden I was playing this kind of music – whatever you want to call it! It was just an experimental thing, something I did to see where it went and also in order to produce something different. The only music I had been producing until then had been either death or black metal and I really wanted to develop, so I thought I’d try some different things and move into some electronic stuff.”
It was, it turned out, something that was in his blood. “My dad used to build synthesisers and Moogs,” he says. “He was one of those guys who could tear apart a VCR and put it back together again; he could make motherboards for computers and stuff like that.”
With a new electronic world open for him, Tägtgren realised that he had an opportunity to take his music as far as it would possibly go, extending the boundaries of what people thought possible.
“I want to make my music different,” he says. “I think that makes it more interesting for me creatively and for people listening to it. I think it’s important not to take the easy way out and not do the same shit as everyone else does.”
It’s something that Tägtgren sees as a personal motto, constantly striving for an edge, a different way of doing things.
“On this new Pain album, ‘Psalms Of Extinction’, I tried to do something original with the drum loops. One of them, for example, was created by unplugging a guitar and then looping that noise. There are all kinds of things like that on there. Once I’ve done one thing, my minds starts thinking, ‘Okay, how do I make the next thing more interesting?’” In fact it’s this urge to never settle for second best, to always push things further and further, that has driven him all his life.
“I like to try and find the limit of an idea,” he agrees. “For example, I remember the first time I bought a Mesa Boogie amp in the mid-’90s. I was constantly fucking with that thing until one day I got the perfect sound from it. I went out and sold it the next day and bought another one so I could start again. That’s the way I work. It’s why all my albums have always been a little different from each other because, once I have done one album, it feels like I have comp0 Comments 218 weeks
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nightwish gig in london, u wer AMAZING! great gig guys xo
Regarding my last comment, they were awesome!
Seems I will be seeing you at the Nightwish gig! Loving your stuff too, see you there!
Just found out that I shall be seeing Pain with Nightwish at Brixton 2009. Absolutely ecstatic about the prospect. I have wanted to see Peter play live for a long, long time.
PAIN!!! Love love love!!!! "Follow me" with anette sounds ace!
Sorry for advertising but was just wondering if there are any Kamelot fans here. PAIN are awsome by the way!
quite fabulous you are, xxx
love it go Pain Hurry up and TOUR Scotland please Glasgow or Edinburgh would be excellent
Cynic Paradise out on Halloween, with Anette Olzon singing on 'Follow Me' and 'Feed Us'. The song 'Monkey Business' is awesome
guess who met Peter Tägtgren!
I can't WAIT for the new album
And Anette's singing on it... that's even better than I could have hoped! 
Freakin AWSOME band. Peter is my idol =) After Alexi Laiho ha.
We shall come back!
Check us out please!
Saw you guys in dublin with Nightwish. You were awesome! Dont forget to come back!!!!!!!!!