Pain announce new album ‘I Am’

March 12, 2024 James Weaver

PAIN have announced a new album!

Titled I Am, the upcoming album from the synth/industrial-laden metal project helmed by HYPOCRISY‘s Peter Tägtgren is the long-awaited follow-up to 2016’s Coming Home, and is scheduled to be released in May this year, via Nuclear Blast Records.

Speaking about the upcoming album, Tägtgren says, “the previous record Coming Home came out in 2016 – and of course there was a tour after that. In 2019, I released an album called F & M with RAMMSTEIN singer Till Lindemann, a project I left in 2020. In 2021, it was time for my death metal band HYPOCRISY to get active with a new album Worship – and of course we toured again. If that wasn’t enough, let’s add that there was a studio album with Joe Lynn Turner in 2022… In other words: the last eight years have passed in the blink of an eye. After all this, it was the perfect time for PAIN to go full force again. I felt excited to say the least. Needless to say, the success of Party In My Head gave the album process an explosive start!”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Go With The Flow.

Speaking about the song, Tägtgren says, “Go With The Flow takes me back to 80s synth pop. Writing in more of that direction was an idea that I had for a while, so I started taking out analog synths and going crazy, and of course I needed to come back to a catchy PAIN chorus. The hardest part was to write lyrics to the song, and to figure out what style to use to sing… the lyrics are about me always being negative and needing to let things go when things don’t go as planned and to brush it off and move on.”

Watch the official music video for Go With The Flow here: