Pain Teens, a Houston-based band, took an industrial path to noise rock through music mostly composed by multi-instrumentalist Scott Ayers. The band's sound was a mix of Butthole Surfers, clanging industrial yet organic rhythms, Blood’s little-girl singing style that told tales of serial killers or other societal ills, plus a strange and memorable poppiness that could cut through it all. Their fourth full-length album, 1992’s Stimulation Festival, is a nightmare world of S&M nastiness and other lyrical deep ends, made engaging by tight songwriting and experimentation with guitar loops, tape manipulation, and other effects-plus the Pain Teens’ best statement of purpose, the must-hear opener “Shallow Hole”-make Stimulation Festival an American noise-rock achievement of the highest order. An added touch comes by way of the great cover of the Birthday Party’s “Wild World.”