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PAIN: Tour Blog, The Final Show Cardiff UK

Posted by tarjavirmakari on February 18, 2013
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Swedish PAIN has just finished touring UK, Michael Bohlin has issued the following update:

We arrived in a sunny Cardiff in Wales in mid afternoon. We had some time before soundcheck so me and David had a real walk around town to check it out. None of us had been in Cardiff before and i must say i was surprised. The first thing i saw when i jumped out of the van was a huge castle wall. I love castles so that made me happy right away. When we walked around the city we also looked at the beautiful church and surroundings. The architecture of Cardiff was very interesting i must say. Unfortunately most things were closed as it was sunday afternoon. Finally we sat down at Pizza Hut and had lunch and a Magners (i love the Irish Cider!)
The beautiful castle of Cardiff, me and David checked it out

The beautiful castle of Cardiff, me and David checked it out

The final show of this UK tour was great and we all had a good time. After a tough tour we now went to our “hotel” and slept a few hours until we had to jump in the van again at 06:30 this morning to go to Heathrow. During the flight back home to Sweden again i tried to make some general reflections of the UK trip but only had one thing in my head that kind of blocked everyting else preventing a general conclusion. Can someone please explain this UK-sink thing to me? One tap with icecold water and one tap with boiling hot water. Come on, it is 2013, i don’t understand how to use this! This is useless to me! Please?
David is challenging the mutant skull for an angry face...

David is challenging the mutant skull for an angry face…

Now i am back home again, sitting i my sofa watching TV feeling great. I just washed my hands in our sink with only one tap, where you can actually chose any temperature you want, hahaha 🙂
...while i found another one with the same size

…while i found another one with the same size

Anyway, thank you all UK Painheads for treating us so well during this tour! I am so happy that so many of you turned up and made our trip all worth it! ’cause i can promise it wasn’t all easy! Thank you also for all your kind celebrations during my birthday.
Now, who can explain this to me? Please? PLEASE! I don't understand...

Now, who can explain this to me? Please? PLEASE! I don’t understand…

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PAIN: Tour Blog From Stuttgart, Germany

Posted by tarjavirmakari on November 24, 2012
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The Into Darkness Tour, featuring PAIN, MOONSPELL, SWALLOW THE SUN, LAKE OF TEARS and SCAR OF THE SUN played in Stuttgart (Germany) on November 23th and Pain’s Michael Bohlin has issued the following update:

I am sorry that i got a bit carried away and lost tracking yesterday. I totally focused on the album release and forgot to make any report from the tour! But hey, it was a a big day for me!

In Stuttgart we had loads of friends joining us, especially from our record company Nuclear Blast, and from Metalmoments, but also our latest album and latest DVD cover designer! It was the first time he saw his creations on the stage design. I was so happy because i realized i was playing the same stage as Kim Wilde had played!!! 🙂

The show went really great and we had no other choice than to do an extra song after the set – the Painheads in Stuttgart was awesome, thank you!

Both me and Peter are eating eucalyptus pills to ease the pain in our throats, as it feels a bit bad right now, thick and painful, typical flu-ish. Now it’s very handy that we have the Ricola pills we got in the present bag from Sarah Ziegenhagen in Pratteln.

Tonight we are in Bochum to do show number 20 of 21. YES!!

(Today is my sisters birthday. Congratulations Lina!)

Live in Zlin. Photo: Martin Mayer

The remaining tour dates:

November
24 – Bochum, Germany – Matrix
25 – Tilburg, Netherlands – 013

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“Upper floor in our tourbus – just a long corridor with 18 beds”

PAIN Guitarist Michael Bohlin’s 8THSIN Release New Album “Cosmogenesis”, Out Today!

Posted by tarjavirmakari on November 23, 2012
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PAIN‘s guitarist Michael Bohlin has issued the following on his Official blog:

Today is a very big day for me and Johan (Husgafvel) as it is the official release day of the “Cosmogenesis” album with 8thSin! It has been a 6 year long journey that is now finally coming to an end. I feel very proud and happy that this day has finally come, and hope that you like the result as much as we do!

For those of you who have no clue what i am talking about, 8thSin is a band that started about 12 years ago and released the first album in 2004, the second in 2005, and was supposed to release the third album in 2006. But both myself and Johan joined Pain and have been touring heavily ever since, and the production of the third album was put on hold. Now the album is finally ready and it feels like i can turn the page and leave that chapter behind me with pride.

8thSin was my creative side at its most, as i did all music and all recording and production. It is the total opposite to my work in Pain as in 8thSin i do almost everything, and in Pain i do almost nothing. Though it is a bit unusual that it takes 6 years to finish an album, i’d say it only made it better as it transformed during the years and ended up in a more mature way. Most of the tracks are actually recorded back in 2005-2006 but all mixed and edited in 2011-2012.

We also had loads of great guests who where kind enough to help us out on the album, this is the complete list of appearing guests (including my daughter!) except the band:

Joacim Thenander – the “Mobhead” remixes
Pontus Norgren – guitar solo on “Teonanacatl (flesh of the gods)”
PM Saari – guitar solo on “Walking in my shoes”
Anders Olsson – guitar solo on “Walking in my shoes”
Martin Boman – guitar solo on “Walking in my shoes”
Eric Rivers – guitar solo on “Walking in my shoes”
Magnus Lundkvist – additional backing vocals and guitar solo on “Walking in my shoes”
Joacim Cans – additional backing vocals on “Walking in my shoes”
Catherine Forsberg – additional backing vocals
Ira Keelyn – additional backing vocals and female words on “Presession of the equinoxe”
Alexandra Balogh – additional backing vocals
Kimmy Bohlin – co-lead vocals on “Safety exit”
Peter Tägtgren – co-lead vocals on “Black metal”
Joacim Lundberg – co-lead vocals on “Walking in my shoes”

Complete tracklist:
01. Teonanacatl (flesh of the gods)
02. Perfectly wrong
03. Precession of the equinoxes
04. ID Zero
05. Safety-exit
06. Plumed serpent rise
07. Ekpyrosis
08. Cosmogenesis
09. The eight sins, part III

Bonus tracks
10. Walking in my shoes
11. Black metal
12. Irreligious – Mobhead 12″ Mix (unreleased bonus from “Angelseed & Demonmilk”)
13. A sleepover at the feeling of death – Mobhead 12″ Mix (unreleased bonus from “Angelseed & Demonmilk”)
14. Irreligious – Rectifier Club mix 135 (unreleased bonus from “Angelseed & Demonmilk”)
15. The 11th commandment (unreleased track from “Sinners Inc”)

“Cosmogenesis” is released on Soulseller Records, and will also be released in the US in February 2013.

For more information: www.8thsin.biz – www.facebook.com/pages/8thSin/218929351452734

PAIN: Tour Blog From Berlin, Germany

Posted by tarjavirmakari on November 20, 2012
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The Into Darkness Tour, featuring PAIN, MOONSPELL, SWALLOW THE SUN, LAKE OF TEARS and SCAR OF THE SUN played in Berlin (Germany) on November 19th and Pain’s Michael Bohlin has issued the following update:

We arrived in Berlin a bit too early so after parking up the buses and trailers we had to wait for a while until they would let us in to the venue. I saw a few Swedish trailers in the same parking outside the venue and was told it was The Hives that was in town at the same time as us. Anyway, right before 11am we were let inside anyway and could have breakfast and showers. Now if you remember what i wrote yesterday about someone had smashed every lamp in a hard party in the bus when i woke up, the very same person didn’t wake up until 4:30pm so we actually didn’t do any soundcheck in Berlin. It was too late as we are 5 bands and have a schedule we have to stick to, like doors that opens at 6pm. This is just how it is sometimes with this band… (Reminder to self: stop trying to follow the schedules, even if we are in Germany)

The show was good and we had great fun on stage. I had a great laugh about the guy who was sitting by the stage and switched the automatic fuse switch every 2-3 mins. Apparently something was wrong with the electrics and this was the solution for the evening, hehe. Johan was still not well, but i’d say he was much better than the day before anyway. After the show it didn’t take long before our entire dressing room was filled with various unknown random people (to me anyway) which i felt a bit disrespectful when you haven’t even got dressed yet! But anyway, i am sure they didn’t invite themselves there but someone told them to come in, so i couldn’t really blame them. Instead i got dressed and packed up my things and left. Johan joined me. I really appreciate when we have some time alone to calm down after a show, change clothes etc, but sometimes it doesn’t go like that. This was just one of those nights.

Me and Johan went to the bus and straight to bed instead, and heard after short while how the whole party including all those people moved in to the bus to continue the party all night long (as we were not leaving early this night, with such short drive to the next city). It doesn’t bother me as i sleep like a rock anyway.

Tonight we are in Leipzig. 15 down, 6 to go, hey ho.

Live in Pratteln. Photo: Serenity

The remaining tour dates:

November
20 – Leipzig, Germany – Hellraiser
21 – Hamburg, Germany – Markthalle
22 – Saarbrücken, Germany – Garage
23 – Stuttgart, Germany – LKA Longhorn
24 – Bochum, Germany – Matrix
25 – Tilburg, Netherlands – 013

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PAIN Issue Tour Blog From Czech Republic: “The Show Went Fine But It Was So Hot We Almost Fainted, All Of Us”

Posted by tarjavirmakari on November 18, 2012
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Source: Bravewords.com

The Into Darkness Tour, featuring PAIN, MOONSPELL, SWALLOW THE SUN, LAKE OF TEARS and SCAR OF THE SUN kicked off on November 9th at Musichall in Geiselwind, Germany. They played in Zlin, Czech Republic on November 17th and Pain’s Michael Bohlin has checked in with the following update:

“This was the third time we were in Zlin in 1.5 years now, and this is the place where we filmed most part of the new DVD, We Come In Peace. Me and Johan took a walk to the city centre of Zlin, where most stores where closed and the main square was empty and quiet. Saturday seems to be a day where most places are closed in this country. But we found a shopping mall that was open anyway and I bought the Thunderbolt/Ethernet adapter to my Mac that I had been looking for.

After dinner we had a signing session of the new DVD at Masters Of Rock Cafe with loads of people. Then I went to the bus to have some sleep again (as I have been doing almost every day so far) until showtime. It was only a few tickets from being a sold out show which meant at totally packed Masters of Rock Cafe this night. The show went fine but it was so hot we almost fainted, all of us! Peter had to take off his straightjacket which has never happened before and the stage floor was all wet from us running around dripping of sweat. After the show we all agreed this was the worst (hottest) show any of us have ever done. Instruments, in-ear receivers and other stuff where all soaking wet, but functioned flawless all through the show.

We also contributed with some souvenirs to the manager of Masters of Rock Cafe to be put on the wall among all other stuff there. It contained a signed tour shirt, a signed drumhead, personal guitar picks and drumsticks. It will all be put in a nice frame and seen on the wall there in the future. Thank you all Czech Painheads for giving us such overwhelming treatment and great show, this is why we love to come back to your country over and over again!

Next stop tonight: Warsaw, Poland. 13 down 8 to go.”

Click here for photos from Zlin.

The tour schedule is as follows:

November
18 – Warsaw, Poland – Progresja
19 – Berlin, Germany – C-Club
20 – Leipzig, Germany – Hellraiser
21 – Hamburg, Germany – Markthalle
22 – Saarbrücken, Germany – Garage
23 – Stuttgart, Germany – LKA Longhorn
24 – Bochum, Germany – Matrix
25 – Tilburg, Netherlands – 013

According to a press release, “the gaping, sinister and black abyss has many faces – just like its musical offspring…for the second time, the Into Darkness tour will crawl upon Europe! In time for the dawning of black winter days, a live package will start hitting clubs November 9th and boasting a line up full of dark gems of the widest stylistic variety: industrial metal, gothic tunes, melancholic doom – this tour has it all!”

Trailers for the tour can be seen below:

For more details visit Intodarkness.eu.

Pain recently released a live clip of the song ‘Dirty Woman’, recorded at the Masters Of Rock Festival 2012, and featured on the upcoming We Come In Peace, which will be released as a DVD+2CD digibook and Blu-Ray+2CD digibook. Watch below:

The release dates are listed at the end of the one-minute trailer below: