Effective period / Period of releases: 1987 - 1995

Members: Bliss Blood, Ralf Armin, Scott Ayers, Frank Gary Martin, Kirk Carr, David Parker (3), Steve Cook (15)

The Pain Teens were formed in Houston, Texas by Bliss Blood and Scott Ayers in 1985 although it took them two years to get around to gigging and putting out an album. Originally a punk band aligned with Houston's punk scene, they soon mutated into something else altogether -- a chaotic and sinister hybrid of punk, noise, tape loops, found sound, samples, exotic instrumentation, and pure unbridled creepiness.