
Houston's harrowing Pain Teens were one of the earlier bands to fuse the chilly gloom of goth rock with the harsh experimentalism of early industrial music, setting the stage for a hybrid that would become increasingly common as the '90s wore on...
The Pain Teens were formed in 1985 as a chiefly studio-bound project between Scott Ayers (a veteran of local punk act Naked Amerika) and Bliss Blood. Essentially a Stooges-influenced punk band at first, their sound quickly grew beyond those roots, as documented on a lengthy series of cassette-only releases issued on the band's own Anomie label. After honing their style for a couple of years, the Pain Teens finally started to play live around the area, and developed a provocative stage show that often featured live whippings. Their first official album was a self-titled affair culled from their previous cassette recordings, and released on Anomie in 1988. The follow-up, 1989's Case Histories, also drew its material from the group's cassette catalog, which by 1990 numbered nine separate 90-minute releases… (Steve Huey)
00:00 Bannoy (89)
05:02 Inside Me (88)
08:47 Preppy Killer (89)
12:37 A Knife (88)
Songs taken from
- Pain Teens (1988)
- Case Histories (1989)
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