Pallbearer have released a second song from their highly-anticipated new album, Mind Burns Alive, due 17th May via Nuclear Blast Records.
The deeply moving ‘Endless Place’ can be streamed here:
https://pallbearer.bfan.link/endless-place.ema
Watch the complementary, visually striking black-and-white video below.
Endless Place’, which features the band’s first ever musical collaboration (a saxophone solo from Norman Williamson of Amasa Hines), encapsulates the thematic essence of the album, as described by vocalist-guitarist Brett Campbell: “These are vignettes which tell the stories of people who deal with myriad sicknesses of the spirit.
These are illnesses communicated by the world we live in, and the subjects are the symptoms of its disease.” The dreamlike scenario that enfolds in ‘Endless Place’, both lyrically and musically, is one focused on a sense of being lost, disjointed, trapped by unease and confusion.
Pallbearer previously released the Dan Almasy-directed video for ‘Where The Light Fades‘. The lead track from the six-song album also highlights the emotionally-charged themes on the collection.
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.”
Mind Burns Alive pre-orders, which include limited-edition vinyl, CD and digital, are available now: https://pallbearer.bfan.link/mind-burns-alive.ema.
Pallbearer also recently announced the Temporary Spaces North American Tour, a six-week North American outing that kicks off on 6th June. Openers include Rwake (6-9th June, 29th June), REZN (11-29th June), Inter Arma (11th July-August 3rd), with The Keening opening on all dates.
The band has also confirmed three special European performances: The Copenhell Metal Cruise (Copenhagen to Oslo) from 25-27th October, Hell’s Ball Belgium (Kortrijk) on 9th November, and Helldorado in Eindhoven (The Netherlands) on 16th November. All ticketing links can be found at Pallbearerdoom.com.
Mind Burns Alive track list:
- Where The Light Fades
- Mind Burns Alive
- Signals
- Endless Place
- Daybreak
- With Disease
Pallbearer are Brett Campbell (vocals/electric guitar/synthesiser), Devin Holt (electric and acoustic guitar/vocals), Mark Lierly (drums/percussion) and Joseph D. Rowland (vocals/bass guitar/synthesizer). 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 have featured the band on their cover multiple times, declaring the band’s unique musical vision as “intense, emotional thunder.”
Pallbearer are:
Brett Campbell – Vocals, Guitar
Devin Holt – Guitar
Joseph D Rowland – Bass, Vocals
Mark Lierly – Drums
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