Twenty-five years after Peaches built an electroclash landmark out of raw drum machines and a deadpan delivery, her breakthrough single has found an unexpected second home. Fuck The Pain Away, first released in 2000 on The Teaches Of Peaches, has been completely overhauled for the upcoming video game Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival. Peaches joined forces with Steve Molitz, music director at Saber Interactive, trading the original version's stark club minimalism for a heavy, menacing sound suited to Cenobites and subterranean torment.
To tie the new version directly into the lineage of the horror franchise, the track incorporates spoken word contributions from Doug Bradley, who steps back into character as Pinhead. Bradley's voice sits against cold electronic rhythms, connecting the song's blunt physical directness to the long-running series fixation on bodily sensation and suffering.
Peaches felt the pairing made immediate sense, noting that placing the cut inside a darker, more twisted framework allowed the material to widen and take on new meaning inside the Hellraiser world. Molitz shared that view from the production side. He commended the singer for her unapologetic, provocative approach to personal expression, describing the chance to reshape such a recognizable piece of music alongside her as a distinct privilege.
The release arrives alongside an explicit, NSFW music video that pulls heavily from Clive Barker's visual universe. Peaches appears surrounded by graphic, sexually charged imagery, setting a clear tone for what players can expect from the game itself. Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival is scheduled for release on October 8 across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PC, and Nintendo Switch 2. Developed in direct collaboration with Barker, the project is built as a first person survival horror experience.
What stands out most about the collaboration is the artist's enduring affection for the track that started her career. While many musicians eventually tire of playing their earliest hits, Peaches has kept Fuck The Pain Away at the center of her live sets for over two decades. Earlier this year, when considering what song she would want played at her own funeral, she initially brought up Prince's Purple Rain, only to realize that audiences would almost certainly request her own signature track. She admitted that the idea did not bother her at all, simply because she still loves the song.
That flexibility has surfaced in other live settings as well. During a 2024 concert in Berlin, Peaches joined Garbage on stage to blend Fuck The Pain Away into their single Push It. That night, Shirley Manson singled out her influence, praising Peaches for spending decades dismantling conventional musical boundaries.
The video game rework comes during a productive stretch for the songwriter. In February, she released No Lube So Rude, her first full-length studio record in more than a decade. The album tackled topics like ageing, queer rights, and sexual politics without compromise, gaining widespread critical praise and securing a nomination on the shortlist for the 2026 Polaris Music Prize. Bringing her most famous anthem into Barker's world of chains and monsters proves how durable that early material remains, showing an old club staple can still bite when pointed in a harsher direction.
