Pain (typeset as PAIN) is a musical project from Sweden that mixes heavy metal with influences from

electronic music Electronic music is a Music genre, genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or electronics, circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromech ...

and

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. The project started out as a hobby project for frontman

Peter Tägtgren Alf Peter Tägtgren (born 3 June 1970) is a Swedish musician, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. He is the founder, main songwriter, lead vocalist, and guitarist of death metal band Hypocrisy as well as the industrial metal band Pain i ...

, whose idea was to fuse heavy metal with 1980s-inspired

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and techno influences. Tägtgren, who is also the vocalist/guitarist of

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and producer of his own ''

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'' studios, is the only current member.

History

Pain's self-titled debut was released in 1997, and since then Pain has released six more albums and a DVD. Starting with their second, all of Pain's albums have made the Swedish charts, thanks in large part to hit singles such as "End of the Line", "Shut Your Mouth", and "Same Old Song".Pain in Swedish Charts
swedishcharts.com. In early February 2006, Blabbermouth.net reported that Pain had signed with Roadrunner Records. Currently, Pain is under the Nuclear Blast Records banner. In 2008, Pain was on tour as a supporting performer for the Finnish symphonic

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band

Nightwish Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic metal band from Kitee. The band was formed in 1996 by lead songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former lead singer Tarja Turunen. The band soon picked up drummer Jukka N ...

. During this tour singer Peter Tägtgren, drummer David Wallin, and bassist Johan Husgafvel were assaulted by a gang in Leipzig. Tägtgren received 10 stitches in his face, Wallin suffered a concussion and stitches to his head, and Husgafvel had his nose broken.Svenska Stjärnor Brutalt Nerslagna
from aftonbladet.se, ''accessed on 23 February 2008''. They are also known to be very edgy, on account of the fact that they named their band "PAIN". Pain supported Nightwish on the second half of their

Dark Passion Play ''Dark Passion Play'' is the sixth studio album by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish. It was released on 26 September 2007 by Spinefarm Records in Finland, 28 September by Nuclear Blast in Europe and 2 October 2007 by Roadrunner Records ...

World Tour, along with Finnish

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band Indica, beginning with the first show in London, UK on 11 March 2009. Pain released their seventh album, '' You Only Live Twice'', on 3 June 2011 via

Nuclear Blast Nuclear Blast is a record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. The label was founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger in Germany. Originally releasing hardcore punk records, the label mov ...

. They released their eighth studio album entitled '' Coming Home'' on 9 September 2016.

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

Video albums

Music videos

Members

;Current members *

– vocals, all instruments on CD (1996–present) ;Current touring musicians *

David Wallin David August Wallin (7 January 1876 – 27 June 1957) was a Swedish artist. In 1932 he won an Olympic Gold Medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles for his oil painting "''At the Seaside of Arild''". Background Dav ...

– drums (2003–present) *Jonathan Olsson – bass (2016–present) *Sebastian Svalland – guitars (2019–present) *Sebastian Tägtgren – drums (drums on ''Coming Home'') (2016–present) ;Former touring musicians *Saroth (Yngve Liljebäck) – bass (1999-2005) *Mathias Kamijo – guitars (1999-2003) *Horgh (Reidar Horghagen) – drums (1999-2003) *Andrea Odendahl – guitars (2003-2007) * Alla Fedynitch – bass (2005-2007) *Marcus Jidell – guitars (2007) *André Skaug – bass (2007/2011) *René Sebastian – guitars (2007) * Michael Bohlin – guitars (2007–2016) *Johan Husgafvel – bass (2007–2016) *Greger Andersson – guitars (2016–2019)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pain Musical groups established in 1997 Industrial metal musical groups Swedish heavy metal musical groups Swedish alternative metal musical groups Nuclear Blast artists Electronic rock musical groups Metal Mind Productions artists