PALLBEARER, indisputable masters of emotionally insightful and stirring heavy music, return with their most raw and heartfelt album to date: Mind Burns Alive (May 17, Nuclear Blast Records).
“These songs are a deeper exploration of dynamics and sonic color than anything we have done up to this point,” vocalist/guitarist Brett Campbell explains, shedding light on the band’s decision to strip everything back on the forthcoming nearly hour-long album. “I’m of the belief that true heaviness comes from emotional weight, and sometimes sheer bludgeoning isn’t the right approach to getting a feeling across.”
A preview of Mind Burns Alive arrives today with the release of 'Where The Light Fades' and its Dan Almasy-directed video. Lyrically, the song eludes to what are the overall themes on the six-song album, as Campbell describes the tracks as “vignettes that tell the stories of people who deal with myriad sicknesses of the spirit… illnesses communicated by the world we live in, and the subjects are the symptoms of the disease.”
LISTEN TO 'WHERE THE LIGHT FADES': https://pallbearer.bfan.link/where-the-light-fades
PRE-ORDER/PRE-SAVE MIND BURNS ALIVE: https://pallbearer.bfan.link/mind-burns-alive
WATCH THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR 'WHERE THE LIGHT FADES': https://youtu.be/EFPSYuLd7WE
Five years in the making, with recording initially slated for 2020, and thwarted yet again in 2022, it was 2023 that saw the band members living locally to one another in Little Rock for the first time in nine years. As a group, they self-produced the album in their own, newly constructed studio (Idlewild Audio) and at Fellowship Hall Sound. Reflecting on this, bassist/vocalist Joseph D. Rowland remarked, “It’s ironic given that the album is largely centered around isolation, but it felt like it summoned us into being back together again in one town, after so long apart.”
Album pre-orders, which include limited-edition vinyl, CD and digital, are available now: https://pallbearer.bfan.link/mind-burns-alive.
PALLBEARER - Mind Burns Alive
1. Where The Light Fades
2. Mind Burns Alive
3. Signals
4. Endless Place
5. Daybreak
6. With Disease
PALLBEARER LIVE
In addition to headlining the first night of Stumpfest April 11 in Portland, OR, the band has announced a North American tour, with the six-week trek spanning the continent in what is PALLBEARER’s most extensive tour since 2018.
PALLBEARER
+ REZN
+ The Keening
June 6th Memphis, TN @ Growlers*
June 7th Murfreesboro, TN Hop Springs*
June 8th Birmingham, @ Zydeco*
June 9th Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade*
June 11th Durham, NC @ The Fruit
June 12th Asheville, NC @ Eulogy at Burial Beer Co.
June 14th Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery
June 15th Lancaster, PA @ Tellus360
June 16th Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
June 18th Hamden, CT @ Space Ballroom
June 20th Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg
June 21st Boston, MA @ The Sinclair
June 22nd Montreal, QC @ Theatre Fairmount
June 23rd Toronto, ON @ Velvet Underground
June 25th Milwaukee, WI @ Vivarium
June 26th Chicago, Il @ Thalia Hall
June 27th St Paul, MN @ Turf Club
June 28th Lawrence KS, @ The Bottleneck
June 29th Little Rock, AR @ The Hall*
*Direct support from RWAKE
PALLBEARER
+ Inter Arma
+ The Keening
July 11th St Louis, MO @ Off Broadway
July 13th Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre
July 15th Calgary, AB @ Dickens
July 16th Edmonton, AB @ The Starlite Room
July 18th Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre
July 19th Seattle, WA @ Substation
July 23rd Sacramento, CA @ The Starlet Room
July 24th San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
July 27th San Diego, CA @ Brick By Brick
July 28th Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom
July 29th Phoeniz, AZ @ Crecent Ballroom
July 30th Albuquerque, NM @ Sister Bar
August 1st Dallas, TX @ Trees
August 2nd Austin TX @ Parish
August 3rd Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
Tickets are on-sale this Friday at 10 am local time.
Visit Pallbearerdoom.com for ticket links.
