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Coming Home
Metal · 2016 · 20 tracks · 1h 26m

Coming Home

Pain

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

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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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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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