Search - Pain :: Psalms of Extinction

A great industrial metal album!

CRAZOTOLOGY | Joplin, MO. (USA) | 06/28/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Pain's 'Psalms Of Extinction' is essentially an apocalyptic metal album that seems quite unhappy about an ending world full of cretins and conservative sociopaths. Peter Tagtgren is the creator, vocalist, and composer of PAIN. This band (Pain) is nothing like Tagtgren's other music projects which include both singing and guitar playing for the bands Hypocrisy, and The Abyss, and producing albums for black metal bands Immortal, Dimmu Borgir, Marduk, and Celtic Frost. There is nothing black Metal about this band, just in case you were seeking such a thing. This album stands out as an original work of music, combining symphonic metal with coldwave industrial electronica, certain to appeal to fans of bands such as Fear Factory, Rammstein, Ministry, and early Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails. The song "Play Dead" is a Bjork cover, "Zombie Slam", "Nailed To The ground", "B**ch", and "Computur God" are potential dance hits for the industrial nightclubs, and the song "Just Think Again" is an emotionally charged anthem to the world's starvation epidemic. The totality of the album is a five star effort and a must have for fans of hard-pounding, guitar-heavy, industrial metal with intelligent lyrics. Below are some of the lyrics, I would have included some other songs here but PAIN uses explicit lyrics so I picked out a few non explicit examples.



Lyrics taken from the song "Computur God":



Computerized technoligy

Wipes Out all your enemies

Digital world controls

A dying analogue blasphemy



Distorted codes in your DNA

Passwords running through your veins

Our brain cells overwon

By the zeroes and the ones



This is the end of huamnity - thrill me, kill me

Computur God is the enemey - decieve me, delete me

There is no lord that will set us free - thrill me, kill me





Lyrics taken from the song "Nailed To The Ground":



Nothing in life is for free, everything has it's price

You start to pay when you're born until the day you die

They turn you into a machine and keep you in the line

If you fall out of their path they will come after you



I don't believe in God or destiny

I always lived my life with one foot into the grave

The world is cruel and filled with enemies

I take my chances cause I know my life won't go anywhere



Lyrics from the song "Psalms Of Extinction":



Why do we have to live in fear?

The Future's looking dark

Noone seems to care

















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