Pallbearer, indisputable masters of emotionally insightful and stirring heavy music, return with their most raw and heartfelt studio album to date: “Mind Burns Alive” out on May 17th, 2024, via 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”.
Watch the official music video for the new single “Where the Light Fades” below.
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 here.
Tracklist:
1. Where the Light Fades
2. Mind Burns Alive
3. Signals
4. Endless Place
5. Daybreak
6. With Disease
Pallbearer has confirmed two special European performances: The Copenhell Metal Cruise (Copenhagen to Oslo) from Oct. 25 to 27, and Nov. 16 at Helldorado in Eindhoven (The Netherlands). More European dates will be announced soon.
Festivals 2024:
25.-27.10. DK Copenhagen – Copenhell Metal Cruise
16.11. NL Eindhoven – Helldorado
The band has simultaneously announced their most extensive North American tour since 2018, dubbed the “Temporary Spaces North American Tour”, the six-week trek launches on June 6. Tickets are on-sale this Friday at 10am local time. Openers include Rwake (June 6 to 9; 29), REZN (June 11 to 29), Inter Arma (July 11 to August 3), with The Keening opening on all dates. Click here for ticket links.
North American Tour Dates 2024:
June 6 Memphis, TN Growlers *
June 7 Murfreesboro, TN Hop Springs *
June 8 Birmingham, AL Zydeco *
June 9 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade *
June 11 Durham, NC The Fruit #
June 12 Asheville, NC Euology at Burial Beer Co. #
June 14 Baltimore, MD Metro Gallery #
June 15 Lancaster, PA Tellus360 #
June 16 Philadelphia, PA Underground Arts #
June 18 Hamden, CT Space Ballroom #
June 20 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg #
June 21 Boston, MA The Sinclair #
June 22 Montreal, QC Theatre Fairmount #
June 23 Toronto, ON Velvet Underground #
June 25 Milwaukee, WI Vivarium #
June 26 Chicago, IL Thalia Hall #
June 27 St. Paul, MN Turf Club #
June 28 Lawrence, KS The Bottleneck #
June 29 Little Rock, AR The Hall &
July 11 St. Louis, MO Off Broadway ^
July 13 Denver, CO Gothic Theatre ^
July 15 Calgary, AB Dickens ^
July 16 Edmonton, AB The Starlite Room ^
July 18 Vancouver, BC Rickshaw Theatre ^
July 19 Seattle, WA Substation ^
July 23 Sacramento, CA The Starlet Room ^
July 24 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall ^
July 26 Santa Cruz, CA The Catalyst ^
July 27 San Diego, CA Brick By Brick ^
July 28 Los Angeles, CA Teragram Ballroom ^
July 29 Phoenix, AZ Crescent Ballroom ^
July 30 Albuquerque, NM Sister Bar ^
August 1 Dallas, TX Trees ^
August 2 Austin, TX Parish ^
August 3 Houston, TX White Oak Music Hall ^
* (w/ Rwake & The Keening)
# (w/ REZN & The Keening)
& (w/ Rwake, REZN & The Keening)
^ (w/ Inter Arma & The Keening)
The Little Rock, Arkansas based band formed in 2008 and have since released four albums: “Forgotten Days” (2020), “Heartless” (2017), “Foundations of Burden” (2014), and “Sorrow and Extinction” (2012). In their review of “Forgotten Days”, Pitchfork described the foursome’s music as “soaring majesty on an album that find a new way forward by refining their past”, Stereogum dubbed the collection as “warm and melodic and comforting”, while Revolver said the songs are “sweeping and melancholic” living “between the majesty of vintage Black Sabbath and the morbid romanticism of Type O Negative”. Decibel, who have featured the band on their cover multiple times, declaring the band’s unique musical vision as “intense, emotional thunder”.
Line-up:
Brett Campbell – Vocals, electric guitar, synthesizer
Devin Holt – Electric and acoustic guitar, vocals
Mark Lierly – Drums, percussion
Joseph D. Rowland – Vocals, bass guitar, synthesizer
Weblinks:
www.pallbearerdoom.com
www.facebook.com/pallbearerdoom
