Pain – the project headed up by Peter Tägtgren – has announced their first new record eight years I Am due out May 17. Pain is now streaming "Go With The Flow" alongside a music video featuring actor Peter Stormare (Fargo, Prison Break, The Big Lebowski) and Tägtgren himself.
"Go with the flow takes me back to 80's synth pop," said Tägtgren. "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."
Pre-orders for I Am are available here.
On the past eight years and the comeback of Pain, Tägtgren elaborates: "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 [the 2022 single] 'Party in My Head' gave the album process an explosive start!"
