Memoirs of a Pain Junkie is the 3rd studio album

Album

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 by industrial metal

Industrial metal

Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial music and many different types of heavy metal, using repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Founding industrial metal acts include Ministry, Godflesh, and KMFDM.Industrial metal's...

 artist Betty X

Betty X

Betty X, is an American musician, artist, and writer known for her controversial stage persona and image as the lead singer of the eponymous band Betty X. Her stage name was formed the combination of 1950's American icons, domestic goddess Betty Crocker, pin-up model Bettie Page with the human...

. The album was released on June 06, 2006 through Anti-Social Records

Anti-Social Records

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It is also her heaviest and hardest-hitting material to date. Experimental vocalization from whispers to blood curdling banshee screams to industrial tinged metal riffs and machine gun riffs.

Track listing

1. "Necrotic" – 4:15
2. "Chainsaw" – 3:50
3. "Bloodworm" – 3:59
4. "Ultraviolence" – 2:17
5. "Shoot'em Up" – 3:04
6. "Bleed" – 3:25
7. "The Snake Pit" – 6:15
8. "Ossuary 13" – 1:43
9. "Pain Junkie" – 6:02

Concept

"Memoirs of a Pain Junkie" were based on Betty X

Betty X

Betty X, is an American musician, artist, and writer known for her controversial stage persona and image as the lead singer of the eponymous band Betty X. Her stage name was formed the combination of 1950's American icons, domestic goddess Betty Crocker, pin-up model Bettie Page with the human...

's fictional auto-biography of the same title. Released in summer of 2006, the album features a new version of "Shoot 'em Up" remixed by Martin Atkins of Pigface

Pigface

Pigface is an industrial rock supergroup formed in 1990 by Martin Atkins and William Rieflin.-History:Pigface was formed from Ministry's The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste tour, which produced the In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up live album and video. For the tour, Al Jourgensen brought...

 and features Chris Siebold of Hate Dept on lead guitar. "The Snakepit" is a drug induced frenzy with demonic vocalization and screams in the vein of Diamanda Galas

Diamanda Galás

Diamanda Galás is an American avant-garde composer, vocalist, pianist, organist, performance artist and painter.Galás has been described as "capable of the most unnerving vocal terror", with her three and a half octave vocal range. She often screams, hisses and growls...

. The character in The "Snakepit" is loosely based on Homer

Homer

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's Odyssey

Odyssey

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 and inspired the creation of a Medusa

Medusa

In Greek mythology Medusa , " guardian, protectress") was a Gorgon, a chthonic monster, and a daughter of Phorcys and Ceto. The author Hyginus, interposes a generation and gives Medusa another chthonic pair as parents. Gazing directly upon her would turn onlookers to stone...

 and Kali

Kali

' , also known as ' , is the Hindu goddess associated with power, shakti. The name Kali comes from kāla, which means black, time, death, lord of death, Shiva. Kali means "the black one". Since Shiva is called Kāla - the eternal time, Kālī, his consort, also means "Time" or "Death" . Hence, Kāli is...

 hybrid demon Mons Venus, who is a recurring lyrical character throughout songs in Betty X

Betty X

Betty X, is an American musician, artist, and writer known for her controversial stage persona and image as the lead singer of the eponymous band Betty X. Her stage name was formed the combination of 1950's American icons, domestic goddess Betty Crocker, pin-up model Bettie Page with the human...

's lyrics. She is also mentioned in Nick Cave

Nick Cave

Nicholas Edward "Nick" Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional film actor.He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984, a group known for its eclectic influences and...

's song "More News From Nowhere" on his 2008 release "Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!."
Mons Venus name is also rumored to be taken from the Latin term and the sleazy infamous strip club in Tampa, Florida.