Painstream LP

Blind Channel calls their own sound "violent pop," and Lifestyles of the Sick & Dangerous and Exit Emotions both rode that mix of nu metal riffing and blunt hooks straight to the top of the Finnish charts. The band dragged Eurovision into a mosh pit in 2021 as a six-member lineup, finishing sixth with "Dark Side" and landing a deal with Century Media the same year; Painstream is the first album from the current five-member lineup since, coming out of a 2024 hiatus with the same aggression fully intact, nothing softened, nothing apologized for.