Pain Teens is the debut studio album of the American Noise rock

Noise rock

Noise rock describes a style of post-punk rock music that became prominent in the 1980s. Noise rock makes use of the traditional instrumentation and iconography of rock, but incorporates atonality and especially dissonance, and also frequently discards usual songwriting conventions.-Style:Noise...

/Industrial

Industrial music

Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...

 band Pain Teens, released in 1988 through Anomie Records. It was later reissued, remixed, and remastered on CD and released on Charnel Music

Charnel Music

Charnel Music is an independent record label devoted to putting out strange and improvisational music. The label was formed in 1988 by Mason Jones as "Charnel House" and had initially released works by his band Trance. The label's name later changed to "Charnel Music," and went on to release music...

 in 1998.

Reception

Tom Schulte of allmusic gave it 4 out of 5 stars, calling the record "an important work of experimental guitar, sound manipulations and proto-industrial musical ethic." Piero Scaruffi

Piero Scaruffi

Piero Scaruffi received a degree in Mathematics in 1982 from University of Turin, where he did work on the General Theory of Relativity. For a number of years he was the head of the Artificial Intelligence Center at Olivetti, based in Cupertino, California. He has been a visiting scholar at...

 named it the 25th best album of the year, although noting that the band was still developing its sound.

Track listing

Personnel

• Scott Ayers – guitar
  Guitar
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  , drums
  Drum kit
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  , production
  Record producer
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• Bliss Blood
  Bliss Blood
  Bliss Blood is a musician and songwriter from Houston, Texas. She moved to New York City, New York in 1996. She has written and recorded one album with Evanescent in 2011 , five albums with New York jazz band The Moonlighters from 2000-2009, and six albums from 1988-1995 with Houston noise rock...
  
   – vocals
  Singing
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