Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago

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Taken from Pain Magazine's debut album "Violent God" out October 3rd on Humus Records

Pain Magazine is a new project born from the meeting of post-hardcore trio Birds in Row and industrial techno duo Maelstrom & Louisahhh.
Combining raw guitars and electronic textures, the group explores themes of power, belief, and transformation through intense sound and uncompromising lyrics.
Formed during a spontaneous studio session, Pain Magazine brings together two worlds to create something bold and unfiltered.

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LYRICS

These are the choke points, these are the choke points
Platform
Chokes
Consumer
Hooked on
Platform
Feeds
Business
Needs
Platform
Feeds
Shareholder
Grows
Platform
Numbs
Consumer
Kills
Business
Expands
Shareholder
ThisIs the problem
With a line that must go up
A year end bonus
An endlesss hunger
A bottomless pit
ThisIs the problem
With my attention span
My self esteem
My ambitions
My security
Your security
Personal Relations
Sexual Relations
Future
This is the algorithm that sucks me dry
Makes me dance for .004 cents on a dollar
Boosts my ego
Keeps me hooked
Keeps me starved
Just enough to keep coming back
This is the problem
I’m addicted to screens
I can’t seem to win
This is the problem
I don’t know why it’s not working
I don’t want you to like me anyway
I need you to like me to make this thing work
What’s she got that I haven’t got?
Lips? Moves? Sex Appeal?
A beautiful life?
A private jet?
In this climate?
A little blue check mark, a social media manager, a hit single?
What do I want in this life even so?
To be beloved on this earth
To feel beloved on this earth
To make them move
To scare them with the truth
To get off the hook, the screen, the treadmill?
I’m so bored and yetI can’t turn it off
Sign up, it’s good for numbers
They said
Play the game, it’s good for numbers,
They said
Promoters, they care about numbers
Fans, they care about numbers
The PR, you gotta have numbers
Promises of getting to do it your way once you make it
Of getting to have it all once you make it
Of being liked on your terms once you make it
Just feed the beast a little more
(You’re what the beast eats, honey)
Stay young
Stay beautiful
The beast likes it when you are young and beautiful
Stay easy and uncomplicated,
The beast hates it when you’re complicated
The industry just isn’t what it was
Was it ever something I could hook a dream to?
Do these streams mean a damn thing to me too?
Does it hurt to watch your own integrity disintegrate
More than the sting of disappointment?
Ego Death?
Drowning in the disillusionment and banging on the bar for another hit

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