PAIN OF SALVATION has issued the following update, adding to their recent report on the positive feedback they've received for their new album, Scarsick:

"We have proof that there has been a cold day in hell, or possibly two Thursdays in a week. Let's look at the evidence...

Exhibit A:

The song 'Disco Queen' was elected Best Right Now in the Gothenburg Post. This is one of Sweden's big and respected news papers, and should therefore be expected to ignore Pain of Salvation and focus on Paris Hilton and HAMMERFALL - so what's happening here?

Exhibit B

Pain of Salvation were described as 'genius' by DN, even bigger than the above mentioned GP...

Exhibit C

Scarsick went straight into the Swedish album charts - at an impossible 6th position (which would have been even higher if the albums hadn't sold out so quickly in many stores)! This is the album chart including international artists, mind you. On the chart for Swedish artists the position was even higher, and the band would have become number one on the Metal/Hard Rock chart with a large margin, if the Swedish distributor hadn't forgotten to categorize Pain of Salvation as Metal/Hard Rock.

Exhibit D

All the important music magazines in Sweden have woken up and started to show interest in Pain of Salvation, so you will be able to read reports and interviews in magazines such as Slavestate, Studio and Fuzz. In Studio, there will also be an in-depth track-by-track report on the song Disco Queen, for those who are interested.

So, the evidence is this - 'Sweden? They won't care about us unless Hell freezes over or there will be two Thursdays in a week!' Well, it seems that might just start to happen..."