Xenon

Xenon (previously and more known as thvalimaki) is a former member and the other original founding member of the Finnish band Pain of Living. He founded Pain of Living with Shyrtexx on 23 June 2017 and since released numerous songs and singles. He departed from the band in late 2020, but later rejoined in 2021.

### History

Xenon was the other half when the band was founded in June 2017. The band's name, "Pain of Living", was decided by him on the very same day. Xenon is the one who created the name of the band's debut album, The End of The Earth.

Xenon's most active period of time was undoubtedly from the founding day to the beginning of 2018, during the writing process of the band's two next albums There Is No God and Bullets. Since that, his activity levels linearly decreased over time, but he still managed to be an important part in the stylistic development, improvement and general progression of the band, as well with the genre direction. The self-titled album is the last studio album featuring him, and his last single, Get Me Out, was released only five days before his department. The last credit he received is in the EP Fields of Sorrow, which contains an extended version of Get Me Out with a real clean guitar intro, recorded and mixed by him.

### Department from Pain of Living

After the release of the self-titled album, the band started working on new music surprisingly fast despite the poor visibility and success of the album. In a course of just few months, four songs were written which was rather fast given the activity of the band at those times. One of these songs, Wounds of Wisdom, got released in the writing process.

However, after the release of the song the band started an unspoken and unplanned hiatus. During this time, neither of the members showed real interest towards the project. The poor reception of the new album and single lead the band to a severe degree of disinterest for a long time.

However, on November, Shyrtexx found the motivation for the project again. The writing process of new music had begun in all silence, and after two weeks Shyrtexx demanded Get Me Out to be released as a single, for which Xenon agreed. The cover art was planned together and the single was released on 28 November 2020.

A few days afterwards, on 01 December 2020, the band saw the apply of new member, Fatsmurf. Shyrtexx agreed Fatsmurf's joining the same day, but Xenon was not informed until the next day, 02 December 2020.

However, on the very same day the members were introduced to each other Xenon told what he claimed to be a "confess" about his recent thoughts. He mentioned considering taking a break from the project for an undefined amount of time. However, he made clear there was no feud nor hard feelings between him and the new member. He reasoned his choices with his willing to focus more on real life guitar playing and school. After an hour upon explaining the will for a break, he announced his department from the band entirely, on 02 December 2020. Since that, the only contribution has been the mixing of the intro of the extended Get Me Out, which was his last contribution to Pain of Living in almost a whole year.

### Rejoining

On summer 2021, Xenon had general conversations about Pain of Living and the at-the-time increased tensions between the band members. During summer, both members wrote a song each and discussed about the possibility of rejoining in near future. On August 30, Xenon joined back upon the disbandment of both Fatsmurf & Foosh.

### Style

Xenon's signature characteristics in his music were fast, high-tempo riffs and sections and sudden changes from intensity to melodies. Another signature feature was the common use of octaves, especially on the later part in the band.

In the beginning, his songs used to be extreme and even chaotic to some extent. Since that, the general level of music increased gradually thanks for both real guitars and the increase of music knowledge.

### Discography

#### Albums

* *The End of The Earth (2017)*
* *There Is No God (2017)*
* *Bullets (2018)*
* *Atheist (2018)*
* *Black Magic (2019)*
* *Pain of Living (2020)*
* *Fields of Sorrow (2020)* (appearence)

#### Singles

* *Disaster (2017)*
* *Black Magic (2018)*
* *Anxiety (2019)*
* *Get Me Out (2020)*

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