The Perfect Element Vol.1 - Pain Of Salvation

Be - Pain Of Salvation

is Swedish prog-metallers Pain of Salvation s 5th full length album, and what an album it is. In typical PoS fashion BE spans the genres; Folk (Imago, Martius/Nauticus), Gospel (Nauticus), Metal (Diffidentia) and even a Broadway-esque 10 minute plus epic in Dea Pecuniae. Not content with providing their audience with incredible ...

Remedy Lane - Pain Of Salvation

a spoken (not rapped) interlude detailing a mans wait in a Budapest hotel room for answers to questions unsure.... Fandango falls back onto the normal ground for Pain of Salvation with erratic time signatures and choppy guitars over-laden with some wonderful lyrics. They built up a world so wonderful, so pure and tense, Stained only now and then by the blood of their young innocence. A Trace of Blood is perhaps one of Gildenlows more personal pieces as it details the time he and his wife suffered through a miscarriage and the loss of lives that occured because of it. It is a beautiful piece with some extremely painful guitar crying over the rythmic pulsing of ...

One Hour By The Concrete Lake - Pain Of Salvation

They play what is generally termed as progressive metal - one minute heavy the next soft with some strange time signatures and rhythmic experimentation. The name Pain of Salvation is meant to reflect the notion of balance and, surprisingly, each piece of work released by this Swedish group is a concept album. Previous examples of the topics covered are war and its effect on the family and the brilliant Be which is about the true nature of God and existence. The main force behind the band is vocalist/composer/guitarist Daniel Gildenlow who in 1984 created a group called Reality at the age of 11. In 87 the group qualified to participate in the Swedish annual ...