Houston, Texas-based Phantom Pains have signed to Mankind Records. The band previously released a split with American Werewolves and a EP titled In Bed with the Dead on This Blessing, This Curse Recordings.

The band is currently working on their first full length and plan to head into the studio this winter to record the album. The album is due out in 2006.

A recent review of their EP described the band as

Fast, loud and caustic like the Nerve Agents and Black Flag. Quick and dirty, most of the tracks on In Bed With The Dead clock in arund a minute and a half and the vocals sit in the back behind The Pains' loud 'n' pungent blasts of bass and '80's thrash guitar.

You can check out two tracks here: "Inside" and Nightbreed" as well as a video: "Back From The Dead."