Modern Pain's new album, Peace Delusions, is out today. Pick up an LP, CD or digital copy atB9Store.com. Download it from iTunes or Bandcamp, or stream it via Spotify below. Physical copies will be in retail stores within the next two weeks.
Peace Delusions might be described as "if In Utero was a hardcore punk record", but even that might be underselling the Dallas, Texas band's first full-length. This new album resembles a golden artifact unearthed from the '80s American hardcore underground, harnessing the unbridled aggression of groundbreaking acts like SSD, Poison Idea and Infest and filtering it through the caustic, ashy atmospheres and unfettered noise rock of Texan predecessors Scratch Acid and the Jesus Lizard, as well as Moss Icon's murky, wordy pathos. This unpredictable, nerve-damaging, half-hour-long debut full-length remains at its core, however, a spacey, noisy punk record all its own.