Foundations Of Burden

by Pallbearer

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Grimmrobe More than a decade has passed; the power this album holds has not wavered in the slightest.

Essential epic Candlemass-type doom. Favorite track: Worlds Apart.

RJ Ten years and more since the monumental sophomore album from Pallbearer, and it is still an outstanding representation of what modern doom metal should be. Meandering and crushing doom for the wandering soul inside of us all. 9/10 Favorite track: Foundations.

Ghuughra A decade-plus later and I'm still not sure if the doom genre has caught up with Foundations of Burden. Also, shocked that it took me a full decade to add this slab to my collection.

Procrastination is real. Favorite track: The Ghost I Used To Be.

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1.	Worlds Apart 10:16	buy track
2.	Foundations 08:41	buy track
3.	Watcher In The Dark 10:40	buy track
4.	The Ghost I Used To Be 10:17	buy track
5.	Ashes 03:19	buy track
6.	Vanished 11:41	buy track

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In the short timespan that they’ve been a band, Little Rock Arkansas’ PALLBEARER have literally defined and set a new standard in the realm of modern-day doom metal. Their 3-song “The Legend” demo which was first released already had made a huge impression in itself amongst the doom metal scene. Said demo would just be a harbinger for what would become the band’s debut full-length LP, 2012’s “Sorrow and Extinction” which made a massive impact not only in the doom metal scene but the entire metal scene in itself along with crossing over even within more mainstream territory. In turn “Sorrow and Extinction” was one of the most praised metal albums of 2012, landing on pretty much every metal best-of year end list and being praised by such notable outlets as Pitchfork, Decibel, SPIN, Rolling Stone, Stereogum, and Entertainment Weekly, just to name a few. The band would do some great tour runs likewise in support of “Sorrow and Exctinction” touring with the likes of St. Vitus, Boris, and Enslaved, and along with playing such notable festivals as Roadburn, Hellfest, MDF, Scion Rockfest, Fun Fun Fun Fest, and Hopscotch Fest respectively.

Now, with their new album “Foundations Of Burden”, PALLBEARER are prepared to take it to the next level unparalleled by creating an album much more advanced, moving, and sonically glorious than their debut. If “Sorrow and Extinction” created massive waves in the metal scene, “Foundations Of Burden” will create the stuff of legends. Captured by legendary producer Billy Anderson (Agalloch, Sleep, Neurosis, The Melvins etc.) at Type Foundry studios in Portland Oregon, “Foundations Of Burden” sees PALLBEARER expand their sound even further and going beyond into an emotionally driven sonic landscape more epic, vast, and ultimately more glorious and triumphant.

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released August 19, 2014

Recorded and mixed by Billy Anderson at Type Foundry Studios in Portland, Oregon.

Pallbearer is
Brett Campbell - Lead vocals, guitar
Devin Holt - Guitar, vocals on songs 1 & 3
Joseph D. Rowland - Bass guitar, piano/Rhodes/analog synthesizer, vocals on songs 1, 4, 5
Mark Lierly - Drums

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Pallbearer Little Rock, Arkansas

Mind Burns Alive finds Pallbearer navigating the space between disquiet and serenity with a singular intensity. At times poetic and blistering, their fifth full length is a heartfelt meditation on isolation, trauma and mental breakdown, framed by the possibility of redemption and the quiet, aching beauty of escape. ... more

shows

Dec 9

Gramps

Miami, FL
Dec 10

The Albatross (fka The Underbelly)

Jacksonville, FL
Dec 11

Will's Pub

Orlando, FL
Dec 12

The Bark

Tallahassee, FL
Dec 13

The HandleBar

Pensacola, FL
Dec 14

Saturn

Birmingham, AL
Dec 31

Birdie's Cabaret Theater & Lounge

Little Rock, AR
May 29

Lee's Palace

Toronto, ON

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