A Place Where There's No More Pain

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A Place Where There's No More Pain
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 28, 2017
Studio
Genre Alternative metal, grunge
Length40:32
Label Napalm
Producer
  • Matt Brown
  • Life of Agony
Life of Agony chronology
Broken Valley
(2005)
A Place Where There's No More Pain
(2017)
The Sound of Scars
(2019)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Blabbermouth.net 9/10 [1]
Metal Hammer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]

A Place Where There's No More Pain is the fifth studio album by American alternative metal band Life of Agony. The album, the band's first studio release since 2005's Broken Valley , was released on April 28, 2017 through Napalm Records. [3]

Contents

This is the band's last release with drummer Sal Abruscato, who would depart from the band for a second time later that year in December. It is also the band’s first album since singer Mina Caputo publicly came out as transgender.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Life of Agony

No.TitleLength
1."Meet My Maker"3:50
2."Right This Wrong"5:01
3."A Place Where There's No More Pain"2:45
4."Dead Speak Kindly"4:51
5."A New Low"3:58
6."World Gone Mad"3:07
7."Bag of Bones"5:06
8."Walking Catastrophe"3:30
9."Song for the Abused"4:45
10."Little Spots of You"3:37
Total length:40:32

Charts

Chart (2017)Peak
position
US Top Album Sales [4] 73
US Hard Rock Albums [5] 24
US Heatseekers Albums [6] 3
US Independent Albums [7] 7

Personnel

Life of Agony
Production

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