This is a bit newer :D

"AND THE NEW GUITARIST IS..........(drum rolls, eye rolls, spring rolls)

TOMMI KURKI

Mr. Tommi Kurki has been around since the first gigs of Pain Confessor. In fact, he has been our mainstay Sound Engineer for pretty much all these years. This made the transition from behind the mixer to the frontlines an easy one, and very natural.

He Wasn't Born Yesterday™ as a guitarist either. Tommi "Tommi Kurki" Kurki, or The Bullfinch as we like to call him, played guitar in the old Finnish progressive metal band Sancnity along with Pain Confessor producer Janne Saksa. Sancnity's swansong was their excellent early 90's album "Dew".

A multitude of musical paths were ventured after that, a few to mention were as a guitarist in Wooden Bone (Sancnity reincarnate as a more pop/rock-esque band) and as the vocalist for the Finnish punk band Rehtorit.

We are proud to have such a rock-hard extra fist to smash into the collective behind of humanity. This will only make things worse for those against us and add even more spice for those who like what we dish out!

Welcome to Pain Confessor, Tommi! We have been waiting for you."

Regards,
Rest of Pain Confessor

Old stuff but posting this here to keep the blog even remotely up to date :)

"Here's what's up:
Pain Confessor parts ways with guitarist Vesa Säkkinen

The year 2008 was all rest for everyone in the Pain Confessor camp. We've been recharging our batteries but of course found some time to record a couple of demo songs that were released in June on our homesite www.painconfessor.com and our myspace page www.myspace.com/painconfessor.

After the demo we fell back into slumber. The urge to move forward grew within us and we found ourselves in the situation where the only way to move on was to let Vesa "Wesleyer" Säkkinen go. We longed for the same fire that burned within us in the summer of 2002 when Pain Confessor was originally conceived.

All further speculation is futile. What's important is that we are very much alive and feel that we made the correct decision in order to evolve and boost the creativity and inspiration within the band.

All systems are go, new material is in the works. Still, it is too early to talk about a new full length album as of now but we are excited about our new material. We guarantee a new album at some point.

New guitarist?

We have chosen a new guitarist already. Although his identity shall remain a mystery for a short while still we can say we are proud to have him join our ranks and can't wait to utilize his vocal abilities and skills as a guitarist.

Official announcement will happen at our concert Friday the 21st of November @ Rocktown, Hämeenlinna, FI. Our new member will make his first live appearance during the show. We also have a good friend from Hateform/Mors Principium Est, Tomy Laisto to play second guitar for the show."

More to come in 2009!

Cheers,
Pain Confessor

"The recording sessions of this demo of sorts was a cool new experience for us. We had never recorded and professionally mixed anything at our own rehearsal space so it was exciting to do it.

Make was probably the most eager of us to record the songs at this stage and he got us all riled up to the point where we just went for it. We borrowed a friend's digital recorder and started to bang in the drum tracks. It brought back lots of memories from our past, each of us having been part of a band that had recorded stuff before the digital revolution. You know, the 4- and 8-tracks, analog recording in studios as well.

So everything had to be a one good take and even more so with these songs having very few breaks to punch in from. It was damn fun, the feeling was like playing live and it should sound in there too. Bass, Keyboard and Guitar parts we also did at our rehearsal space. Stacking Wesleyer's Fireball, Mesa/Boogie cabinet and just plugged in with his Kramer.

In all honesty, the sound was awesome to begin with, better than we had dared to even hope for. Easy sound to play with, we just cranked it up and let the guitars wail. The bass of course worked nicely with Mikko's Mesa Big Block. And everything of course with one good take. All guitar leads luckily went in on the first take and to save the feeling and spontaneity I didn't even want to start honing them at all. Pasi finished the Studio Moldy Tangerine sessions with nailing his keyboard arrangements with the trusty old Korg.

For vocals we had a real treat. Reunited with our friend and producer/recording engineer Janne Saksa, we recorded all vocals during June 25. at our home away from home, Sound Supreme. Make was on fire, everything just fell into place and just being back at Sound Supreme really lifted our spirits to the highest levels.

Once the vocals were all done we left the last rites into Janne's hands. Good thing too, he mixed the whole damn thing in a few hours and mailed the results to us. I uploaded the songs to MySpace for You all to check out and on we ride!"

- Tuomas / Pain Confessor

YO YO YO!

Like we said, we really are still here and oh boy in what way! Here are the 2 new songs we happened to record at our own little homemade studio, X9 and Reality of Now.

Yep, we are still here. Been a long time since we have had anything noteworthy going on to report here. So, what's up? What's happened during our silent existence?

Let's see.. Well, the Johanna Kustannus/Megamania deal was discontinued. Nothing really shocking there, that deal was coming to an end anyway so we embraced the departure as an opportunity to review our situation and rally our forces, forge new plans of attack and eventually strike with new found vigor when the time was right.

We stole a good deal of personal time for ourselves and to do stuff with our families and friends, to rest and gather our thoughts until we felt the urge to get back in the saddle and grind out some tunes. That urge slowly took us by the balls and dragged us one by one back to our rehearsal space to get a feel for things. Suddenly we had a song recorded and damn it, that shit worked.

So here we are, writing stuff, playing metal and planning our next attack. When, where, with whom and by what means? You will see. And hear.

Plastic Head will release Pain Confessor´s third album Purgatory of the Second Sun in Europe. Release date is confirmed as 29. October 2007. We have made available 2 tracks off that album and 1 track each off the previous albums. Songs will change in the near future, so keep checking the site every now and then!