Highlights
PALLBEARER emerged from Little Rock, Arkansas in 2012 with a stunning debut full-length, »Sorrow And Extinction«. The record, which played like a seamless 49-minute doom movement, melded pitch-perfect vintage sounds with a triumphant modern sensibility that made songs about death and loss feel joyfully ecstatic. PALLBEARER possessed what many other newer metal groups didn't: perfect guitar tone, classic hooks, and a singer who could actually sing.
For their 2014 follow-up, »Foundations Of Burden«, the band worked with legendary Bay Area producer Billy Anderson (SLEEP, SWANS, NEUROSIS) for an expansive album that was musically tighter and especially adventurous. Armed with a more technical drummer, Mark Lierly, »Foundations« feels like it was built for larger shared spaces - you could imagine these songs ringing off the walls of a stadium. It was a hint of things to come. While the debut earned the band a “Best New Music” nod from Pitchfork and rightly landed the band on year-end lists at places like SPIN and NPR, along with the usual metal publications, »Foundations Of Burden« charted on the Billboard Top 100 and earned the “Band Album Of The Year” from Decibel and spots on year-end lists for NPR and Rolling Stone.
Returning to where it all began, the quartet recorded their third full-length, »Heartless« on their own in Arkansas, and it’s grander in scope, showcasing a natural progression that melds higher technicality and more ambitious structures with their most immediate hooks to date. The collection, which follows the 3-song »Fear & Fury EP« from earlier this year, was captured entirely on analog tape at Fellowship Hall Sound in Little Rock this past summer and then mixed by Joe Barresi (QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, TOOL, MELVINS, SOUNDGARDEN).
Radiating News
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Posted: September 08, 2022Categories: NewsRead more »
Arkansas avant-garde doom quartet, Pallbearer, have released a live video for their track 'Vengeance & Ruination', taken from their formidable latest record Forgotten Days.
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Posted: February 21, 2022Categories: NewsRead more »
Pallbearer will be travelling to Europe this summer to embark on a string of exceptional show dates, celebrating the 10th Anniversary of their seminal record 'Sorrow & Extinction'.
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Posted: December 06, 2021Categories: NewsRead more »
2022 will see the 10th anniversary of the NUCLEAR BLAST Label Night at SUMMER BREEZE OPEN AIR, taken over by TESTAMENT, PARADISE LOST, EXODUS, PALLBEARER and FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE.
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Posted: October 23, 2020Categories: NewsPALLBEARER celebrate today’s release of »Forgotten Days« with the release of “The Making of Forgotten Days”, a deep dive into the making of the eight-song album.Read more »
