- Country: USA
- Style: Blackened deathcore
- Label: Century Media
- Release date: 14 October 2022
Pain Remains is Lorna Shore’s fourth album, and it is enormous. Ten songs, an hour of music, and orchestration from guitarist Andrew O’Connor stacked under nearly every riff. The foundation is deathcore, but the blasting, the choirs and the soaring lead guitar drag it much closer to symphonic black metal than the genre usually gets.
Will Ramos is the main event. His range runs from piercing highs to gurgling lows that barely sound human, and on “Sun//Eater” and “Into the Earth” he flips between them mid-line like it costs him nothing. The lead guitar keeps the songs melodic enough that the breakdowns hit twice as hard when they finally drop.
Then there’s the closing three-part title suite, which is where this album earns everything people say about it. “Pain Remains I: Dancing Like Flames” builds slowly, the second part turns almost mournful, and “Pain Remains III: In a Sea of Fire” ends the record on a genuinely emotional high. I’ve played it more than anything else from 2022.
Best tracks:
Sun//Eater
Into the Earth
Pain Remains I: Dancing Like Flames
Pain Remains III: In a Sea of Fire
Author’s rating: 9.3/10
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