Pain Of Salvation, "Scarsick"

[Pierre]

C'est le nom de l'album qui va sortir fin janvier


Sweden's PAIN OF SALVATION has posted the following update on its official web site:

"The long-awaited 'Scarsick' album is now done, and is expected to hit the stores late January 2007, just a few weeks before the European tour that will start mid-February. The album is (of course) a concept album, and clocks in at 67 minutes, consisting of the following tracks:

01. Scarsick
02. Spitfall
03. Cribcaged
04. America
05. Disco Queen
06. Kingdom of Loss
07. Mrs Modern Mother Mary
08. Idiocracy
09. Flame to the Moth
10. Enter Rain

"The cover artwork and track titles have already spawned a lot of discussions in forums and lists around the net regarding the possibility that 'Scarsick' might actually be 'The Perfect Element' part II in disguise. Interviews with the band will undoubtedly start to pop up in magazines and online the following months, so keep your eyes and ears open...

"Now that 'Scarsick' is finished, the band will focus on finding a new bass player. The first auditions are already scheduled for December, but the quest will be 'as long as it takes to find the right guy.' Applications have been pouring in from all around the world, despite the band's request for a bassist living in Sweden. Thus, focus will be on the 'domestic' applications. But this also means that the field is still open, in case you are hesitating.

[Ta'abacab]

kingdom of loss ... ça sent bon ça [/i][/list]

[Fully]

en ce moment, on peut acheter l'album via leur site (qui nous dirige vers un vendeur suédois) pour le recevoir dédicacé

je viens d'ailleurs de le commander, j'avais déjà fait comme ça pour le dernier DARK TRANQUILLITY

bon j'espère que ce sera vraiment le groupe qui signera, mais pour DT c'était le cas j'avais comparé avec les signatures que j'avais déjà

[Everflow]

The cover artwork and track titles have already spawned a lot of discussions in forums and lists around the net regarding the possibility that 'Scarsick' might actually be 'The Perfect Element' part II in disguise

Va falloir que j'écoute ça alors.

[Mc Brain]

J'ai entendu le morceau 'scarsick' sur le sampler de Rockhard, et j'aime beaucoup. C'est assez original, avec des couplets un peu bizarres, et aussi des lignes de chant très mélodiques qui provoquent un fort contraste. J'aime bien
Par contre, je ne peux pas comparer avec ce qu'ils ont fait auparavant, car je ne connais aucun album du groupe.

[Ta'ayouch]

Un album simplement décevant au vue du potentiel créatif de Daniel Gildenlow.
De rares bons morceaux dans la lignée de BE mais rien de génial comme on est en droit de s'attendre de ce groupe.
Des morceaux originaux, voire douteux : disco queen et america.
Globalement très répétitif et pour les nouveautés, peut être une influence sleepytime gorilla museum.
Donc pas de nouveauté. Une modernité acrrue dans le son tout au plus.
Certainement le moins album du groupe, mais ça se disputera avec BE aux yeux de certains fans.

Tiens j'ai mis ça sur la fnac au passage tellement je suis convaincu qu'il ne faut pas commencer pain of salvation par cet album.

3/5 parcequ'ils le valent bien.

Maintenant je l'ai trouvé plutôt agréable, entrainant, beau mais je sais même pas si je vais l'acheter car il y a peu de chances que je l'écoute souvent ... allez si, parce que c'est pain of salvation et qu'avant l'ère du P2P, je l'aurais acheté les yeux fermés

[Ta'abacab]

D'un autre coté cet album est "facile" pour la plupart des titres et en quelques écoutes il reste (hélas) bien dans la tête (plus que le dernier blind guardian en tout cas ) à cause de nombreuses répétitions des thèmes, refrain ...
Ce qui n'est pas vraiment le cas des autres albums du groupe, plus fouillés, fournis, inventifs, créatifs, bref ... mieux.
A juger sur pièce, mais de leur part je trouve ça facile, presque convenu, et du coté nouveauté, j'insiste, ce n'est nouveau que pour eux.

[Noxos]

En conclusion c'est du PAIN OF SALVATION "Light"

[Everflow]

N'empêche que "Disco Queen" elle est terrible

Bon, leur bassiste de la tournée est désormais officiellement membre du groupe, introduit ci-dessous par quelques touches d'humour :

Sweden's PAIN OF SALVATION has ieeud the following update:

"So, let it be publicly known: on the 10th of March, after the Copenhagen show, Simon Andersson [bass] was welcomed into PAIN OF SALVATION as a full member. He did an outstanding job on the tour and we are looking forward to the coming years with great anticipation. Since his girlfriend is a huge PAIN OF SALVATION fan, we happily expect to see this decision put a little silver lining on their sex life as well, since she can now all of a sudden go to bed with a member of the band. Congratulations Simon, and welcome to the family!

"During the European trip, the band was informed that they won the local but very prestigious award 'Eskilstatyetten' for being Ambassadors of Eskilstuna. The annual big banquette in connection to this six category award was held on the 17th of March, and the band played an acoustic version of 'This Heart of Mine' and 'Song for the Innocent'. Daniel [Gildenlöw, vocals] also had the honorable task of holding the speech. It touched on fatherhood, touring, politics (of course) and relentlessness, and went down very well. The host of the evening was Yvonne Ryding (Miss Universe 1984 and, according to Daniel, the woman of his dreams when he was eleven years old).

"After the first month-long trip across Europe, we are home again, to catch our breaths before taking on the rest of the upcoming shows. So far, the feedback from the crowds has been wonderful. We hate to single out specific crowds, but special credit has to go out to the fans in Rome and Copenhagen, for being extra energetic and insane. Never before have the words 'Don't worry, she just fainted!' sounded so reassuring, casual and bizarre at the same time. We also realized what magic we had brought to the scene, until we saw grown-up metalheads with big beards and leather jackets totally shake loose and groove in almost Travolta-like moves to 'Disco Queen', which was one of the obvious highlights of the setlist every night, regardless of which country we played in. Wonderful! We are also happy to see that our crowds get increasingly mixed and diverse; less homogenic in all from age, race, gender, musical background and sexual preference. We want you all! Anyway, we can't wait to get out on the roads again, thank you all for being there."

[Ta'abacab]

Perso je trouve ça lamentable ce titre, il paraît que ça prend tout son sens sur scène, ça confirme que ça n'en a aucun de mettre une joke de plus de 8 min sur un album, déjà america c'était de trop.

M'enfin Be+Scarsick = 1 album moyen de POS (en choisissant les titres écoutables)

C'est dommage. Ca reste un groupe référence pour moi.

[Everflow]

Ben faut juste accepter qu'on puisse être un groupe de prog sans se prendre au sérieux

[Ta'ayouch]

et sans se foutre de la gueule du monde c'est possible ? ça y est ils se drimzihateurisent

[Gh0sT]

Si vous n'aimez pas la tournure prise par POS avec Scarsick, essayez ça :

Wastefall - Self Exile
Empyrios - And the Rest is Silence
Art of Simplicity - Caught in this Iless Storm

[Everflow]

Leur batteur Johan Langell quitte le groupe pour se consacrer à sa vie de famille...

[hallowedhail]

Leur batteur Johan Langell quitte le groupe pour se consacrer à sa vie de famille...

Déjà le deuxième pour ce même motif, ils ont l'esprit de famille les batteurs de POS!

[Everflow]

Et il est remplacé par un jeune batteur français

New drummer confirmed:

Pain of Salvation's new drummer is Léo Margarit from France. He studied music in Montpellier.

"Always two there is..."

The search is over, and a new drummer has now joined the band. The level of competition and skills among the few drummers who remained at the top of the crop was extremely high, but this guy outplayed everyone in the end. To the extent, it might be added, that the band even chose to go for the one non-Swede finalist.

So, who could this phantom be?

Well, just to make things painful, it will not be made official who the new drummer is as of yet. Instead, the veil will fall live on stage next week, at the Motstoy festival in Notodden, Norway, 6th of October. This is not only the very last gig of the Sickening the World tour of 2007, but also the farewell show of long time drummer Johan Langell. This will be the only chance to see both drummers on stage with Pain of Salvation and, needless to say, those who have the possibility of attending this show will definitely be in for a special treat.

To celebrate the event even further, the band will also perform some songs that the fans have not heard live in a long time. All-in-all: if ever there was a different and special show of Pain of Salvation, this is bound to be it! Your one chance to say goodbye to the old king, and welcome the new one.