ENGINE OF PAIN is a metal band from the South of the Netherlands.

The band is founded in May 2003 by Maurice Brouwers and Patrick Waltmans.

Few weeks later Patrick and Maurice decided to ask the best Dutch grunter Nick Hameury (ex-Form), to join the new band.
Ex-After Forever drummer Joep Beckers was interested to do the drums.

The foundation was established...

Several months after Engine of Pain was founded, Nick encountered Ruud Bänziger (ex-Defcon One). Ruud was the right person to complete the band and his inventive soloing and riffs pulled the band up to a higher level.

ENGINE OF PAIN recorded a MCDemo in February 2004 titled Here is the Pain!
Thanks to this MCDemo the Wacken Open Air organisation decided to invite the band to play at WACKEN OPEN AIR (15th anniversary): one of the largest metal festivals of the world with 43.000 visitors that year.
That same year ENGINE OF PAIN played the final of the well-known Dutch-Belgium band competition Jägermeister / Aardschok METAL BASH.
Also Patrick was asked to be Dean Guitars USA Artist. In October 2005 the band started to plan and implement their next step: recording a professional full-length album including artwork. The result is a very tight, hard, aggressive, powerful and melodic album with strong, cool and contemplated lyrics and ditto artwork.

Their great debut album, called I Am Your Enemy, is released worldwide by Finnish label Lion Music Ltd on 26th of January 2007 and still gets raving reviews.

Beginning of December 2006 the band enlisted guitarist Bastiaan Kuiper (Stormrider) who replaced Ruud Bänziger. Due to his immigration to Spain, vocalist Nick Hameury left the band in July 2007.

As of August 2007, Rogier Stockbroecks a.k.a. Stocky reinforced Engine of Pain. Stocky’s previous band Powervice released a demo “Behold the hand of Glory” what was demo of the month in Rock Hard Germany nr. 224. Nowadays, the style of music could be defined as a perfect mixture between modern heavy metal, pounding thrash metal and a powerful sauce of catchy melodic metal vocals.

ENGINE OF PAIN line-up

STOCKY – vocals
PATRICK WALTMANS – guitar
MAURICE BROUWERS – bass
BASTIAAN KUIPER – guitar
JOEP BECKERS – drums

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