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THE AGONIST: 'Thank You, Pain' Video Released

September 3, 2009

"Thank You, Pain", the new video from Montreal, Quebec, Canada's THE AGONIST, can be viewed below. The clip was directed by David Brodsky, who has previously worked with ALL THAT REMAINS, KITTIE and THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, among many others.

Commented vocalist Alissa White-Gluz: "We are very happy to finally be finished with our summer touring, and look forward to lots more in the fall. We really appreciate the awesome fans we have met throughout the USA and cannot wait to meet everyone in South America and Mexico!

"The video for 'Thank You, Pain' is a long time coming. [It was] once again created by the great David Brodsky and MyGoodEye and we tried to really represent the lyrical presence of the song without distracting from the music itself.

"Since the song is dominated by two speakers (represented by my dual vocals),we needed a strong yet subtle way to let the lyrics carry the narrative and emotion of the song, and we accomplished this with different locations within the beautiful old courthouse in New Jersey.

"'Thank You, Pain' was an instant favorite for many THE AGONIST fans, new and old, so we hope they will appreciate the new visuals accompanying the song.

"I am also very honored to have PETA2 exclusively premiere our video. Since PETA fights for a lot of the same things I do in my songs, it's great to be able to partner up again. I look forward to working with them on future campaigns as well. They are perceived as a daring organization that pushes the boundaries in order to expose what people normally turn a blind eye to.

"We have noticed that a lot of our fans are extremely intelligent, interesting people so we think they will be excited about this video debut as well."

"Thank You, Pain" comes off "Lullabies For A Dormant Mind", the sophomore album from THE AGONIST, which debuted at No. 105 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.

Produced by Christian Donaldson (CRYPTOPSY, MYTHOSIS),"Lullabies for the Dormant Mind" exposes new facets of the band and touches upon classical, jazz, opera, grindcore, thrash and black metal influences in a complete metal opus. The CD features guest violins by Avi Ludmer (MAHOGANY RUSH),orchestrations by classical pianists Melina Soochan and Jonathan Lefrancois-Leduc (BLACKGUARD) along with many other Montreal-based contributors.

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