While Yeah Yeah Yeah’s are on a semi-hiatus, their guitarist Nick Zinner decided to add a grindcore band to his extensive list of side-projects. Zinner recently joined forces with vocalist Justin Pearson to form More Pain and the duo already has a new song to present us under this new name.
Their first track “Hammering Tenderness” is out now and serves as an introduction into band’s sound and as a leading single for the upcoming self-titled extended play. The EP, which will contain two more songs, “Life and Leisure” and “Unfaithful Disadvantage,” will officially be out on April 21st.
You can hear “Hammering Tenderness” and see the Joana Lopes-directed music video for the track below.
“Initially it was for part of a film score that Zinner was working on,” Pearson told The Rolling Stone about the project. “But the film hasn’t and might not ever come out. So we opted to just release it on Three One G as a
“There was talk about playing live and making it a somewhat legit band, but I think Zinner might be too busy,” the 43-year-old vocalist added. “But you never know.”
This isn’t the first time Nick Zinner and Justin Pearson work together. They were in a punk rock supergroup Head Wound City, which they formed in 2005 alongside Jordan Blilie and Cody Votolato of The Blood Brothers and The Locust’s Gabe Serbian. They released an EP before going on a hiatus, but ended up reforming in 2016 to record a debut studio album A New Wave of Violence.
