PAIN TEENS is an experimental noise rock band formed in Houston, Texas in 1… Read Full Bio ↴PAIN TEENS is an experimental noise rock band formed in Houston, Texas in 1985 by Scott Ayers and Bliss Blood. The band used tape manipulation, digital delays, sampling, tape cut-ups and other effects in their music. They also included guitar, violin, marimba, saxophone, percussion, and many other musical instruments.

PAIN TEENS is distinguished from other rock groups mainly by Scott Ayer's guitar playing- a unique sound that combined swamplike psychedelia and twisted, effects-laden sounds. Bliss Blood's disturbing lyrics and icy delivery helped the PAIN TEENS sound like no other band on earth.

Beginning in 1987, PAIN TEENS released nine out-of-print cassette tapes and two LPs on their own Anomie Records label. Soon after, they released four LPs for Trance Records, an Austin, Texas label run by King Coffee of the band Butthole Surfers.

The live version of the band went through several lineups, including Steve Cook on bass, Ralf Armin on guitar, David Parker and Bart Enoch on drums in 1988, followed by Kirk Carr on bass and Frank Garymartin on drums. They ceased performing live in 1993, after touring with the Boredoms, Fudge Tunnel, Brutal Truth & Season to Risk in that year.

Bliss Blood moved to New York City in 1995 after the release of their sixth full length release, "Beast of Dreams", and formed The Moonlighters with Henry Bogdan from Helmet; Delta Dreambox, a 1920's style blues band; Voodoo Suite, a 1950's exotica lounge jazz group, the "crime jazz"-style Nightcall with Stu Spasm from Lubricated Goat, and many other projects. She currently lives in Brooklyn.

Scott Ayers and Frank Garymartin continued playing together in their new band Walking Timebombs, releasing several cds, Culturcide, Truth Decay, and Anarchitex. In 2009 Scott Ayers began performing solo under the name GelTab, which has been described as "ambient/country", and later started the band Dead Links, which has a heavy progressive rock sound and one album release so far. Other projects include the Electric Knives (psych/punk/noise) and Dead Cowboys (country/folk/blues/americana)

Kirk Carr died of cancer in May 2008.

Bad in My Head
Pain Teens Lyrics

We have lyrics for these tracks by Pain Teens:

Cool Your Power Let me into the rage, inside your mind, The fire burning…
Coral Kiss Angry little teeth, sharpened Pearl cuts and bitten, My brui…
Daughter of Chaos In my field of blood, in my gown of thorns In…
Dominant Man Five percent of the human race are dominant over the…
Embers and Ashes Embers and ashes, sweet-smelling dust Are all that remains o…
Frigid Idol Frigid idol, I'm cold as stone I feel my bones break,…
God Told Me God told me to do it, in fact he said…
Indiscreet Jewels Let me whisper to you, tell you all that I…
Invitation I'm dying in the morning Have seen what I've wanted and…

Lisa Knew When every hour is uglier than the one that passed…
Living Hell Crushing pain, my soul shall die Big girls don't complain an…
Manouche Manouche, the sky is wide Reflected in your eyes Black as a…
Prowling A raging beast that nothing will silence This dark hunger bu…
RU 486 It's for me, the wonder drug of the century Now I…
Shallow Hole The fantasy is about power, it is really about control A…
Swimming Swimming, swimming, Swimming in those arms Whose embrace I k…
Tar Pit I got a deep dark secret, that no one knows…
The Sweet Sickness The sweet sickness Is what can't wait So sweet to know That …
Voluptus Voluptus in your warmth I long to linger Voluptus in your…

You Only Live Twice You only live twice, or so it seems One life for…

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