Progressive Metal
Tracklist
01 – Road Salt Theme02 – Solftly She Cries
03 – Conditioned
04 – Healing Now
05 – To the Shoreline
06 – Eleven
07 – 1979
08 – The Deeper Cut
09 – Mortar Grind
10 – Through the Distance
11 – The Physics of Gridlock
12 – End Credits
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Pain of Salvation is a progressive metal band from Eskilstuna, Sweden. The band centres on lead vocalist, guitarist, composer, and writer Daniel Gildenlöw.
ReplyDeleteTrademarks include concept albums focusing on social, environmental, philosophical, and emotional issues as well as songs that incorporate complex rhythms and time changes but retain flowing melodies. The band was formed by Gildenlöw in 1984 under the name Reality. The band used to participate in many music contests in their homeland of Sweden. The first EP, Hereafter, was recorded in 1996 under the monicker Pain of Salvation, which has been the name of the band since 1991. The Lineup of the band was the same for their first official full length album, Entropia(1997).
After the departure of Daniel Magdic for continuing disagreements with the others over committing to the increasing demands of the band, the band recorded One Hour By The Concrete Lake(1999), a concept album about the issues of nuclear power/waste, disposition of indigenous peoples,industry and human discovery. The band began to receive more attention from critics and magazines all around the world. In 1999 they also played at the famous ProgPower festival in The Netherlands.