Pain Magazine

As if stalked by a frenzied god of carnage, Pain Magazine treads through the dusty debris of predatory capitalism: weary, numb, trembling with rage. For this ad hoc alliance of the post-hardcore ferocity of Birds in Row and the industrial techno precision of Kimifromtheinternet and Louisahhh, sound is about expressing lament. With nasty noise and cold flames, the France-based faction exact truths from humanity’s gaping wound, but also find moments of desperate, cathartic beauty: “You want it dark, I want it darker.”