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Grief and loss are things that almost everyone has experienced. It is a shared feeling that humanity goes through. But what is unusual about this common feeling is the way the people process. For Mancunian metallers Pijn<\/strong>, their new expansive double LP, \u2018Loss\u2019<\/em><\/a>, is not just about the band telling their story, but the stories of the wider metal community who contributed to the record.<\/p>\n Starting out as a three-piece, Pijn<\/strong> have created a family mentality to their music, bringing in contributors as and where they can to add to the wall of sound they create. This community element has continued over into the new record; the embryonic stages of the album saw the band put out a call to arms for fans to contribute art, voice clips, music or just written notes about losses they have experience in their lives.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the music videos and album artwork there is a lot of transcribed stuff that we got sent,\u201d<\/em> drummer Nick Watmough tells Already Heard. \u201cThere is a lot of deeply personal stuff that we were sent, but we were very careful to edit out anything that would have been identifiable or just stuff that we thought was just too much.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThere were some things that were just unpleasant, and for Joe (Clayton,<\/em> guitar\/vocals) there were some conversations that, during the mix of the album, had to listen to over and over which was really difficult.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Watmough added: \u201cIt was amazing that people wanted to share these messages and stories with us, it was super interesting, and those particular bleak bits are in the record in some form, they are just obliterated by walls of sound, but it is in there so those people know it is in there.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n