The Pain Machinery - Hours + hours

Check out Swedish industrial/EBM act The Pain Machinery covering genre pioneers Klinik.

The Pain Machinery - Restart (trailer)

The official trailer for Swedish EBM/industrial act The Pain Machinery's just-released new album "Restart". Download/stream the whole thing at Bandcamp or Spotify or seek out a physical copy on vinyl or cassette.

New music from The Pain Machinery and other CCP news

Brand new music from Swedish EBM act The Pain Machinery off their forthcoming album "Restart", due out this coming June via Complete Control Productions. In other related news, CCP has also announced that they are assembling a comp called "Inside the volcano" that will gather a number of similar-minded artists who are making new music with "old" influences. In addition to acts already on the label's roster such as The Pain Machinery, Infiltrator, Severe Illusion, Guilt Trip and so on, they've also enlisted a bunch of other great names such as Agent Side Grinder, Portion Control and //TENSE//. Full press release: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=405819126106157

MP3: The Pain Machinery - Paranoise

Last year I was all about ugly, apocalyptic hardcore, this year I find that a large proportion of my listening is geared towards getting (back) into industrial/synth/EBM. One group that I've been listening to lots is The Pain Machinery and while I can't post a track from their latest album "Surveillance culture" because their label politely asked me not to, I will share a track off their 2010 release "Urban survival". "Paranoise" lacks the relentless, hard-driving beats that define much of the band's sound, but it's statement of extreme military/technology paranoia is a recurring motif, a concept well-served by the noisy clatter of machines. They can be used to work for you, but they can also work against you -- it's a variation of the same dystopic vision, an ever-present theme in this particular genre and one that comes closer to reality every day. As "Surveillance culture"'s opening track "Shine" states, "We are social media / television / you carry out what we command" -- there are dark forces at work against you, if you let them.

The Pain Machinery - Paranoise

The Pain Machinery - Hard cash (video)

"Hard cash" is the first video from The Pain machinery's latest record "Surveillance culture". Recommended!

Via Moving Hands comes word that Swedish "electroindustrialnoiseterror" act The Pain Machinery has signed with US-based label BLC Productions. Their first album for them "The venom is going global" is set for a December release.