Coming Home

Metal · 2016 · 20 tracks · 1h 26m

Coming Home

Pain's "Coming Home" delivers driving industrial metal with orchestral flourishes and electronic precision. It's a polished, aggressive, and defiantly melodic journey.

September 9, 2016 · Nuclear Blast

Coming Home by Pain is a masterclass in modern industrial metal, a genre where heavy guitar riffs collide with intricate electronic soundscapes and propulsive drum machine rhythms. The album pulsates with a relentless, driving energy, creating a sonic environment that is both aggressive and meticulously crafted. Peter Tägtgren's distinctive vocals, a blend of guttural growls and surprisingly melodic cleans, cut through the dense instrumentation, delivering lyrics that often explore themes of defiance, introspection, and the human condition in a technological age. It's a sound designed to envelop the listener, pulling them into its polished, yet gritty, world.

Tracklist · 20 Tracks · 1h 26m

01

Designed to Piss You Off

3:54

01

Same Old Song

4:04

02

Call Me

4:13

02

Zombie Slam

3:39

03

A Wannabe

4:15

03

Suicide Machine

4:31

04

Pain in the Ass

4:06

04

I’m Going In

3:25

05

Black Knight Satellite

3:41

05

End of the Line

4:54

06

It’s Only Them

5:04

06

Coming Home

4:41

07

Absinthe‐Phoenix Rising

3:41

07

The Great Pretender

5:00

08

Final Crusade

3:54

08

Dirty Woman

4:39

09

Monkey Business

4:31

09

Natural Born Idiot

4:16

10

Shut Your Mouth

5:21

10

Starseed

4:43

Moments Worth Listening For

The sudden orchestral swell that introduces the chorus on a track like 'Designed to Piss You Off,' elevating the industrial crunch.

The way Peter Tägtgren's clean vocals emerge unexpectedly in the bridge of 'Coming Home,' offering a brief, melodic reprieve before the heavy guitars return.

The relentless, almost hypnotic drum machine pattern combined with a searing guitar solo in the latter half of 'Call Me,' building to an intense climax.

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Where This Album Departs

How does Coming Home sound next to the rest of Pain's catalogue?

Aggressive+1.0σ

Aggressive saturates this record notably more than the artist's norm.

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