Psalms of Extinction [Import]

Pain, Pain | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 14, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: MSI:ROADRUNNER
• ASIN: B000OT8KMC
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,925 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Save Your Prayers

2. Nailed to the Ground

3. Zombie Slam

4. Psalms of Extinction

5. Clouds of Ecstasy

6. Play Dead

7. Does It Really Matter?

8. Computer God

9. Just Think Again

10. Walking on Glass

11. Bottle's Nest

12. Bitch

Editorial Reviews

Peter Tagtgren - musician, producer and creative brain behind Pain - is used to pushing boundaries. 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. He has been described by Alternative Press as "the Rick Rubin of Scandinavian metal." Pain is a solo-project in which T gtgren played every instrument, culminating in a sound that is electronica infused metal with an ethereal ambience and setting Pain apart from other industrial based artists. A stellar cast of musicians have helped on 'Psalms Of Extinction'. In Flames bassist Peter Iwers, Children Of Bodom guitarist Alexei Laiho and Mot rhead drummer Mikkey Dee.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This might just be the best Pain CD yet....(4.5) stars, June 1, 2007

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David Falzano (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Psalms of Extinction (Audio CD)

For a while I considered Pain's 2nd CD 'Rebirth' it's best CD, but then after the release of 2005's 'Dancing with the Dead,' I started to reconsider. But here we are in 2007 & Peter Tagtgren (band creator/mastermind & frontman) delivers once again with the excellent 'Psalms of Extinction.' If you are a fan & you really liked those previous albums that I've mentioned, then you will truly like this CD as it is a combination of those 2 albums rolled into 1 industrial metal masterpiece! If you are new to this genre I would still strongly recommend checking this CD or ANY Pain CD (well the first CD sounds more metal than industrial metal) for some really well made music to get your adrenaline pumping. Also, if you are looking for some HIGH QUALITY & HEAVY extreme metal, then I would also check out Peter Tagtgren's Hypocrisy.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT RELEASE, June 21, 2007

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Nexus05 (MD, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Psalms of Extinction (Audio CD)

I agree with the first reviewer falzano, sums up what i think too in all honesty. Peter tagtgren really makes an album more industrial than previouse works, its more original to the genre. Not to degrade his other works, every release is awesome, memorable songs, but this one, hits the jackpot, cant wait for his next release!! worth every penny, you love industrial GET THIS ALBUM!!!!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great industrial metal album!, June 28, 2007

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CRAZOTOLOGY (Joplin, MO. (USA)) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Psalms of Extinction (Audio CD)

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