Coming Home (Album)
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September 9, 2016 |
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[[CD], [LP]] |
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10 |
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43:50 |
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Peter Tagtgren |
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Coming Home is the eighth studio album from the Swedish music project Pain by Peter Tägtgren . It was released on September 9, 2016.
General
In an interview with powermetal.de , Tägtgren said he had started working on some ideas for Coming Home in 2012 . In the summer of 2013 he was invited by Till Lindemann to a concert by his band Rammstein and "afterwards he said, [they should] make a little music together." Due to the joint Lindemann project and production work, work on the album was interrupted. Tagtgren sees the album as a further development of what he left off with Pain and Lindemann.
Coming Home is the first pain album on which Peter Tägtgren leaves the drumming work to another musician for the entire album, this being his son Sebastian, who was 17 at the time of recording.
Like almost all of the albums that Tägtgren was involved in, Coming Home was recorded in his own Abyss studio . Clemens Wijers arranged the orchestral tracks on the album. The graphic design and the photos of the album are by Stefan Heilemann.
Track list
- Designed to Piss You Off - 3:53
- Call Me (with Joakim Brodén ) - 4:13
- A Wannabe - 4:15
- Pain in the Ass - 4:06
- Black Knight Satellite - 3:40
- Coming Home - 4:43
- Absinthe-Phoenix Rising - 3:42
- Final Crusade - 3:55
- Natural Born Idiot - 4:17
- Starseed - 4:45
The music and lyrics are by Peter Tägegren. Sanna Bark was involved in the text for Pain in the Ass .
Details on individual songs
Designed to Piss You Off
There is an “official lyric video” for the piece.
Call me
Call Me was written from the point of view of a callboy , Tägtgren sings it in a duet with Joakim Brodén. For his band Sabaton Tägegren has been producing the studio albums for several years. Before that, Tägegren was heard on the Sabaton song, God with us .
Emperor Rhombus wrote for the English-language online magazine Metalsucks about the music video for Call Me : “When I saw the 'Praise Abort' video from Till Lindemann's solo album, which was co-written and produced by Hypocrisy's Peter Tägtgren, I thought that the weirdness must have stemmed primarily from Lindemann. [...]
But I just watched the video for 'Call Me', the new song by Tägtgren's hard rock side project, Pain, and man, either Lindemann rubbed off on Tägtgren, or the dude is a lot weirder than I thought. [...]
In short, a fat pill-fueled manager sashays around while bizarre giant puppets of Pain (and Sabaton frontman Joakim Brodén) play music, get blowjobs, blow huge spoonfuls of yayo, and play riffy aggro metal to a crew of roiling nubiles being fed drugs by what appears to be the woman from Little Big. Meanwhile, the song is an epic hard rock anthem to shallow greed with a lyric from a Christina Aguilera song.
At first, I thought it was cheesy. Then I watched it again, and then again, and now I cannot stop watching this video or listening to this song. To quote Axl, 'I'm fifteen seconds in and it's basically the best music video I've ever seen.' "
During production work on The Last Stand of Sabaton asked Tägtgren the singer of the band, Joakim Brodén if he as a guest singer on Coming Home wanted to participate. Tägegren commented: “And now he can be heard on 'Call Me', I really like the song. Not just in terms of the story. "
A Wannabe
The music video for A Wannabe was directed by Owe Lingvall and produced by Per Bussmann.
Black Knight Satellite
There is an official “lyric video” for the piece Black Knight Satellite . Theme of the song is the conspiracy theory of the Black Knight .
criticism
Manuel Berger concluded in his review for laut.de : “It may be that 'Coming Home' is too much of a modular system for one or the other and is sheer overload. The way Pain is presenting it here, at least for me, there is only one thing left to say: 'What the fuck?' Lobhudel-Heini Ende. "In his review, Berger also referred to Skills in Pills , which Tägtgren produced in cooperation with Till Lindemann :" Because the 'angel' whistle in 'Pain In The Ass' offers a comparison: you remember on Tagtgren's Lindemann excursion? 'Coming Home' allows 'Skills In Pills' to appear like the small, slim accident, even after the rather weak final double 'Natural Born Idiot' / 'Starseed', because of which a pissed off rabendad gets the idea of 'Praise Abort' when he is drunk bawl."
Sebastian Kessler wrote for the Metal Hammer : “The Pain style of playing, which is always open to experimentation, not only thrives on hits, but also creates real surprises and moving moments. Not in remote Bowie dimensions, of course, and not continuously, but with such a high number of strokes that COMING HOME has to be classified as one of the most exciting albums in the Pain discography! "
Michael Klaas was also full of praise for Coming Home for metal.de : “This means that Tägegren has once again achieved a good PAIN album with an enormous number of hits, which should once again lure the metallers onto the dance floor. The orchestral bombast suits his sound perfectly and is - thanks in part to the help of Clemens 'Ardek' Wijers (CARACH ANGREN), who helped with the songwriting - used effectively and efficiently without being too thick. "
Rakesh Pothengil rated the album for Metal Wani musically positive, but criticized the lyrics: “I have absolutely zero complaints with the sound of the band and the instrumentation. It's dense and atmospheric, and the epicness will astound you at moments. However, when it comes to the lyrics, I find that this album is all over the place. From a bar fight the band was involved in during their tour to the Black Knight Satellite conspiracy theory, the band diverges a bit too much on the content. With such grandeur in the compositions, some of the lyrics feel too simplistic, and therefore a gross mis-fit. I echo a similar sentiment when it comes to the song titles. While 'Black Knight Satellite' is a good fit, 'Call Me', 'Natural Born Idiot' or 'A Wannabe' doesn't justify the spectacular orchestration and the epic songwriting they feature. If one can look over these minor flaws, then they may find 'Coming Home' to be one of the best albums the band has released thus far. "
Footnotes
- ↑ a b interview with powermetal.de .
- ↑ a b INTERVIEW: PAIN's Peter Tägtgren on 'Coming Home', Possible Hypocrisy & Lindemann New Album , in: Metal Wani
- ↑ Interview with metal1.info .
- ↑ Alexandra Michels: Pain: 'Designed To Piss You Off' lyric clip released , in: RockHard
- ↑ Emperor Rhombus: Pain's “Call Me” Video Proves That Peter Tägtgren Has Lost His Fucking Mind , in: Metalsucks
- ↑ Maximilian Blom: Pain: 'A Wannabe'-Clip published , in: RockHard
- ^ Eike Cramer: Pain: Exclusive song premiere 'Black Knight Satellite' , in: MetalHammer
- ↑ Manuel Berger: Tägegren plays the bad party uncle. , in: laut.de
- ^ Sebastian Kessler: Coming Home , in: Metal Hammer
- ↑ Michael Klaas: Pain - Coming Home , in metal.de