Pain Generator

Pain Generator
Pain Generator Live in Richmond, VA 2022
Background information
Origin	Richmond, VA
Genres	Power Noise, Industrial, Harsh noise
Years active	2006–present
Website	https://www.flowcode.com/page/paingenerator
Members	John Cross

Pain Generator is the solo Industrial and Harsh noise project of John Cross.

History

Pain Generator was created in 2006, originally under the name "Grain Shifter" and released a compilation album with prolific Japanese cyberpunk author, Kenji Siratori. The first official album 'Disgusted With Myself' was released in December 2014, after which the project played a number of live guerilla style shows before finally performing at it's first real venue as "Pain Generator" in 2018 at Fallout in Richmond, Virginia. After a nearly four year break from live performances, Pain Generator returned in 2022 to open for Dawn of Ashes, again at Fallout.

Pain Generator Live in Raleigh, NC

Harsh Noise Phase

While some tracks could be categorized as dark ambient or drone, the vast majority of early Pain Generator would be considered Harsh noise or Power Electronics.

Power Noise Phase

The album "this is not for you" featured the first song with a focused use of rhythm and drums in 'A face in a cloud, no trace in the crowd' while the album "YOUR PAIN IS MY PLEASURE" showed more signs of hard hitting drums and a shift towards a Power Noise style.

Discography

丑​の​刻​参​り EP (2021)

1. Viscera Slug
2. The Iron Crown
3. Purification (An Open Vein Redux)
4. Terror Motivation
5. Eight Graves
6. And there was nothing left

Ascaris Single (2021)

1. Ascaris

Prelude 3.0 Single (2021)

1. Sorrow
2. Forgiveness
3. A Way Out

An Open Vein/Bottomed Out EP (2020)

1. An Open Vein
2. Bottomed Out

YOUR PAIN IS MY PLEASURE EP (2020)

1. Object
2. On Your Knees
3. Beg for it
4. Choke
5. Close Your Eyes
6. Bound

Prelude 2.0 Single (2020)

1. Mother of Corruption
2. I feel nothing
3. Red Snow
4. Never Sleep

this is not for you EP (2020)

1. As walls keep shifting
2. A face in a cloud, no trace in the crowd
3. moments before the wind
4. Stars to die by

Prelude Single (2020)

1. Prelude

Other Words EP (2016)

1. Other Words
2. Moments
3. Csnt
4. A Rat's Worth
5. Waiting in Mirrors
6. one way in - two ways out
7. 嫌い

Living Rot LP (2016)

1. gone
2. Insertion
3. Slit Mouth
4. nails in marrow
5. For now she sleeps
6. bullet
7. A whisper from beneath the stairs
8. The Unraveling of Gods
9. WALL OF LIES
10. Blood from the Womb
11. Tisimicnic
12. Waste
13. a space for you
14. Dear,
15. Abigail Lost

-End- EP (2016)

1. Come into me
2. The Putrid Flesh
3. Gashadokuro
4. Kill it before it kills you
5. Pink and Blue Twenty
6. Wersinfal

Disgusted With Myself EP (2014)

1. Empty [1]
2. Corpus Callosum Seperation
3. Empty [2]
4. Violent Orgasms
5. Empty [3]
6. Torturefuck
7. Empty [4]
8. Living Without
9. Empty [5]

Gutsucker [VERSIONS] EP (2015)

1. Gutsucker [ORIGINAL]
2. Gutsucker [GUTFUCKER MIX]
3. Gutsucker [GutsnGlory Mix]

Remixes

1. Dead City Soundscape - Sewn Eyes Remixes - (Once was Blind Mix)

Compilations

1. Tripping Unto Sounds of Color 33 (Unknown) | Pain Generator - Autoerotic Dismemberment
2. Untitled (Shitnoise Net Label, Unknown) | Pain Generator - Untitled
3. Dead Nazis Everywhere (Noxious Upsurge, 2020) | Pain Generator - K.A.N.
4. Dead Nazis Everywhere (Noxious Upsurge, 2020) | Pain Generator - No Mercy for Nazis Demo
5. Rustpunk Compilation (Unknown, Unreleased) | Pain Generator - Grind
6. Pain Generator vs Poete Maudit | Pain Generator - Needles Beneath the Fingernails
7. DEATH ROM (Hypermodern, 2007) | Pain Generator (As Grain Shifter) - 1. Untitled
8. DEATH ROM (Hypermodern, 2007) | Pain Generator (As Grain Shifter) - 2. Untitled
9. DEATH ROM (Hypermodern, 2007) | Pain Generator (As Grain Shifter) - 3. Untitled
10. DEATH ROM (Hypermodern, 2007) | Pain Generator (As Grain Shifter) - 4. Untitled

References

1. https://www.pain-generator.com (Official Pain Generator Site, 2022)
2. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K_7k8VKLbK-MqMK5SHezZcD-z-pToiOZ/view (Official Pain Generator Electronic Press Kit, 2022)
3. https://www.songkick.com/venues/4117249-night-rider (Live Venue Page, 2022)
4. https://www.discogs.com/release/1689407-Kenji-Siratori-Grain-Shifter-Death-Rom (Kenji Siratori & Grain Shifter Album Page, 2007)
5. https://allevents.in/richmond/dawn-of-ashes-midnight-nightmare-and-pain-generator/10000372593135097 (Event Page for Pain Generator/Dawn of Ashes Show, 2022)

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