Victim in Pain is the debut full-length studio album by New York hardcore band Agnostic Front. It was released in 1984 on Rat Cage Records and follows the United Blood EP. The album features Rob Kabula and Dave Jones, who replaced Adam Mucci and Raybeez on bass and drums respectively. It is still available as a split album with their subsequent album, 1986's Cause for Alarm.
Album cover
The album cover features the famous photograph The Last Jew in Vinnitsa. In an interview with the Songfacts site in 2015, Miret explained, "It was a pretty intense photo. But that was the purpose of it. I wanted people to see that and know that it did happen, and it can happen again. And that intense view, that guy just looking at the camera right about the moment he was about to fall into that pit, it was intense. But I just felt that it was appropriate. That person probably never did anything wrong in his life. That was the way it is. That was sad. But we see it happening all over again, don't we?"[1]
Tributes
Richard Bruinen (nicknamed Richie Backfire), drummer of the Dutch band Backfire!, had "Victim in Pain" tattooed on his stomach. After his 1999 suicide, Agnostic Front dedicated the song "Bullet on Mott St." to him.
