Pain of Salvation DVD Images

One of my favorite bands is the band Pain of Salvation, a “progressive metal” band from Sweden. Since they rarely play in the United States, I even went to Atlanta to see them in concert last year. They’re releasing a new DVD next month, which I’ve already pre-ordered on Amazon.

But someone with a promotional copy has posted snapshots to the Internet, and I find these highly disturbing. It all starts out pretty peacefully, with an image of Daniel Gildenlow in shades. They ignore convention and place a funny warning at the beginning of the DVD.

It all goes downhill from there. Here’s the bass player wearing clothes that appear to be out of his wife’s closet. (Men should not wear low-cut blouses! Men should not wear blouses!! Especially when they’re already wearing lipstick!) The drummer and the guitarist look quite disturbing. Even the orchestra gets into the act — do you think they usually look quite so ghastly when playing Beethoven?

These images are truly disturbing. Now I really want to receive the DVD, just out of morbid curiosity!