A Different Kind of Pain

A Different Kind of Pain
Studio album by Cold
Released	August 30, 2005
Recorded	September 2004 – January 2005
Studio	Studio Barbarossa (Bavon, Virginia) Bearsville Studios (Bearsville, New York)
Genre	Post-grunge alternative rock alternative metal
Length	42:32
Label	Flip Atlantic Lava
Producer	Michael "Elvis" Baskette
Cold chronology
Year of the Spider (2003) A Different Kind of Pain (2005) Superfiction (2011)
Singles from A Different Kind of Pain
"Happens All the Time" Released: June 21, 2005 "A Different Kind of Pain" Released: December 6, 2005

A Different Kind of Pain is the fourth studio album by American rock band Cold. It was released on August 30, 2005 in the US and September 12, 2005 in the UK and features the singles "Happens All the Time" and "A Different Kind of Pain". It has sold over 160,000 copies in the US and would be Cold's last album before their nearly three-year breakup beginning in 2006.

The time of the album's recording and release marks a turbulent period for Cold with the band signing to a new record label, experiencing numerous lineup changes, and obtaining weakened commercial success. Frontman Scooter Ward's struggles with his sister's cancer as well as the fallout of the relationship with his fiancé during this time also provided lyrical inspiration. The result, A Different Kind of Pain, expands on the melodic, less aggressive sound that the band had begun exploring with 2003's Year of the Spider.