Not sure if you caught this but "Pain Remains" is a concept album.

It's about a man that falls into a dreamworld to escape reality, makes it lucid(Welcome Back, O' Sleeping Dreamer, Into The Earth), becomes god of the world(Sun//Eater), enjoys his reign for a bit(Cursed To Die), then, experiences disenchantment, resentment, and futility(Soulless Existence, Apotheosis). This ends in anger/wrath(Wrath), until he finds a love, who subsequently vanishes as quickly as she appeared, which is where the trilogy starts(Pain Remains I, II, III). The trilogy details the culmination of all the songs together by the rage, despair, and hopelessness the protagonist feels at losing what he thought would fix his "perfect dream world" where he was god. He lost his love.

Turns out dreams are meaningless without action so the protagonist tries to burn the dreamworld down to escape back to reality. Which is where the triumphant melody from the chorus of part 2 and the end of the trilogy comes from. It's a call to action. So the protagonist may or may not have escaped at the end.

I like to think of it as similar to when Leonardo Di Caprio's character and his lover got stuck in dream level 4 during Inception, if you've ever seen that movie.

I forgot how good Soulless Existence was, great reaction man

Now you gotta watch the music videos for the trilogy. Cinematic masterpiece that pulls at the heart strings

Soulless Existence is one that really caught my attention as well, it really paints a picture, it's so good

If you didn't catch it via the lyrics, the general story of the album is the main character falls asleep, beginning a lucid dream. He realizes this, and basically becomes God. Having done everything he wanted to in his dream world, he feels empty and meaningless, and destroys the world in a sea of fire

Man, not enough people talk about 'Wrath'. That song is bonkers.

Psalms and flesh coffin are truly sick

The 3 songs you mentioned are the only non-singles from the album. 7/10 songs have a music video :D

New Kublai Khan TX album released yesterday. It’s 🔥🔥🔥

First time watching one of your videos and already subbed. There's not a single skippable track on this album. Those 3 songs with less views is cause they don't have videos. All the others have one. I do think you should check out the videos too, especially the Pain Remains trilogy. Look forward to seeing more! 🤘

you're the only one on yt who both read the lyrics and listended to the full album so that you got the transitions

I am so glad I am not the only one who thinks Soulless Existence and Wrath are such underrated songs. Both are my favorite songs off this album. The problem is that people only focus on the songs with music videos most of the time. And as for Soulless Existence, mainly because it isnt as heavy and fast pace as the rest of the songs, it doesnt get the love it deserves.
Also, I love the use of Dark Soul's bonfire sound at the end haha. Love this album!

I've been waiting for this for so long and now it's here, my Saturday evening is saved thank you!!!

Absolutely fell in love with Lorna Shore with Will at the forefront. Initially captivated by Into the Earth when it dropped, this album quickly became a highly-anticipated one for me. Through countless listens, I can safely say Soulless Existence is undoubtedly my favorite. Gosh I love that song. The whole damn album is incredible though, Cursed to Die and the trilogy is in their own right perfection as well.

Edit: Not a lot of my friends are into metal - certainly not anything this symphonic or heavy. I greatly enjoyed watching along with your reaction, like sharing a cherished album with a friend to see what they think of it! :)

Fun fact, the fire audio in the outro of Pain Remains III was actually sampled from Dark Souls

Going to see them next month. Can't fucking wait.

I’m glad you get to enjoy this album along with all of us now

I hope you checked out the pain remains music videos after this reaction, they’re extremely well done.

Randomly leaving this but that new 156 silence album is so up your alley with your taste, its like a mix of silent planet,  knocked loose, maybe a tad bit of thornhill

Incredible album, Into The Earth is my jam, absolutely love it.