{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Pain of Mind | type = studio | artist = Neurosis | cover = PainOfMind2000.jpg | alt = | released = December 1987 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = *Hardcore punk<ref name="bbc1" /> *crust punk<ref name="chimes">{{cite web|title=Neurosis brings post-metal back to its roots|url=https://chimes.biola.edu/story/2016/sep/26/neurosis-brings-post-metal-back-its-roots/|last=Heilman|first=Maxwell|publisher=The Chimes|date=September 26, 2016|accessdate=January 5, 2017|quote=}}</ref> *crossover thrash<ref name="bbc1">{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/zhj9/ | title=Neurosis - Times of Grace Review | publisher=BBC | access-date=January 5, 2016 | author=Moffitt, Greg}}</ref> | length = 37:33 | label = Alchemy (1987)<br />Alternative Tentacles (1990, 1994)<br />Neurot (2000) | producer = Neurosis | prev_title = Black (EP) | prev_year = 1986 | next_title = The Word as Law | next_year = 1989 | misc = {{Extra album cover | header = Alternative cover | type = studio | cover = PainOfMind1994.jpg | border = | alt = | caption = The 1994 vinyl reissue cover to ''Pain of Mind'' }} }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}} [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r203871|pure_url=yes}} link] | rev2 = Blabbermouth.net | rev2Score = 7/10<ref name="bbm rev">{{cite web |title=Neurosis - ''Pain of Mind'' |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/cdreviews/pain-of-mind/ |website=Blabbermouth.net |date=24 June 2018 |accessdate=2018-10-03}}</ref> }}

'''''Pain of Mind''''' is the debut studio album by American post-metal band Neurosis, originally released through Alchemy Records in 1987. It was later reissued by Alternative Tentacles in 1994 and by Neurot Recordings in 2000; the 2000 reissue contains a special bonus disc that includes live tracks, live radio tracks, and demo tracks. Pennsylvanian politician R. Budd Dwyer is pictured on the front cover of the 1994 vinyl release, showing his suicide during a televised press conference in 1987.

''Pain of Mind'' is the only Neurosis album to feature guitarist Chad Salter.

==Track listing== # "Pain of Mind" – 3:06 # "Self-Taught Infection" – 3:01 # "Reasons to Hide" – 3:02 # "Black" – 4:56 # "Training" – 1:02 # "Progress" – 1:46 # "Stalemate" – 2:30 # "Bury What's Dead" – 2:06 # "Geneticide" – 2:34 # "Ingrown" – 2:23 # "United Sheep" – 3:06 # "Dominoes Fall" – 3:00 # "Life on Your Knees" – 2:20 # "Grey" – 2:41

;Bonus disc on 2000 reissue # "Stalemate" (live at Gilman) – 2:48 # "Black" (live at Gilman) – 6:10 # "Instrumental" (live at Gilman) – 3:12 # "Grey" (live at WFMU '89) – 2:39 # "Pollution" (live at WFMU '89) – 3:52 # "Life on Your Knees" (live at WFMU) – 2:50 # "Reasons to Hide" (first demo tape) – 3:21 # "Ingrown" (first demo tape) – 2:40 # "Pain of Mind" (first demo tape) – 3:49 # "Dominoes Fall" (first demo tape) – 3:17

==Personnel== *Chad Salter – guitars, vocals *Scott Kelly – guitars, vocals *Dave Edwardson – bass, vocals *Jason Roeder – drums

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