Swedish industrial metallers PAIN, led by iconic producer/musician Peter Tägtgren, issued the following update on May 23rd:

"Hello Painheads!

It's less than three days to our first show the year now and we're all getting really exited to play live and present some of the new songs for you. Tomorrow we're all meeting up at The Abyss for some quick rehersals. Last time was 2007 when Michael and Johan joined the band, so you can understand this is not an everyday occasion for us. After the rehersals we'll all go home for a couple of hours before it's time to leave for Arlanda Airport and the bar just beside the smoking room in Terminal 5. The following days will be punishing for us with lots of traveling, lots of stagetime, not so much of sleep, but shitloads of fun and a 72 hour charge of the Pain batteries that keeps us all going, and going, and going...

It's also time to revive the Pain tour blog again so that you don't miss anything. As usual we promise to spare you no details and publish all of those stories and pictures that would get us banned on MySpace and Facebook. We'll start tomorrow at the rehersals and will continue until the last show is over in November. So make sure you tune in to www.mobilblogg.net/pain for your daily dose of... abomination?"

Pain's tour schedule is as follows:

May

27 - P!pl Club - Moscow, Russia
28 - Glav Club - St Petersburg, Russia

June

19 - Myötätuulirock - Vantaa, Finland
25 - Graspop Metal Meeting - Dessel, Belgium

October

5 - Markthalle - Hamburg, Germany
6 - Lido - Berlin, Germany
7 - Hellraiser - Leipzig, Germany
8 - Masters of Rock Café - Zlin, Czech Republic
11 - Backstage - Munich, Germany
12 - Dynamo - Zürich, Switzerland
13 - Bloom - Mezzago, Italy
14 - New Age - Roncade, Italy
15 - UFO Club - Brunico, Italy
16 - Rockfabrik - Ludwigsburg, Germany
18 - La Laiterie - Strasbourg, France
19 - Colos-Saal - Aschaffenburg, Germany
20 - Underground - Köln, Germany
21 - Helling - Utrecht, Netherlands
22 - Trix - Antwerpen, Belgium
23 - Nor - Heerlen, Netherlands
25 - Divan du Monde - Paris, France
26 - Ninkasi Kao - Lyon, France
27 - Le Phare Club - Toulouse, France
28 - Salamandra 1 - Barcelona, Spain
29 - Sala Stereo - Murcia, Spain
30 - Caracol - Madrid, Spain

November

1 - Hard Club - Porto, Portugal
2 - Cine Teatro Corroios - Lisboa, Portugal

Pain's new album, You Only Live Twice, is due out June 3rd in Europe and on June 21st in North America via Nuclear Blast. The album track, 'The Great Pretender', is now streaming online at Radio Metal.

Audio samples from the entire album are currently available at this location.

You Only Live Twice tracklisting:

'Let Me Out'

'Feed The Demons'

'The Great Pretender'

'You Only Live Twice'

'Dirty Woman'

'We Want More'

'Leave Me Alone'

'Monster'

'Season Of The Reaper'

Bonus content for the two-disc version of You Only Live Twice:

You Only Live Twice bonus CD:

'Crawling Thru Bitterness' (unreleased bonus track)

'The Great Pretender' (Millboy & Peka P Remix)

'Dirty Woman' (MC Raaka Pee Remix)

'You Only Live Twice' (Rectifier Remix)

'Leave Me Alone' (Rectifier Remix)

'Eleanor Rigby' (Live at Sundown Festival, 2008)

'Follow Me' (Live in Brussels, 2009)

'I Don’t Care' (Live at Raimsmes Festival, 2009)

'Bitch' (Live at Raismes Festival, 2009)

Pain recently released their new video for the track 'Dirty Woman'. Check it out below: