Pallbearer announce new album “Mind Burns Alive”
We’re real excited here at LiveWire, with the news that there’s a new album coming from the magnificent Pallbearer. The American doom metal maestros from Little Rock, Arkansas, are indisputable masters of emotionally insightful and stirring heavy music. We saw them live at The Fleece in Bristol in 2022 when they toured with Elder and Irist, and boy… what a night it was ! Check out their fantastic album “Forgotten Days” released in 2020.
Well, Pallbearer are back with their most raw and heartfelt album to date: “Mind Burns Alive” which is out on 17 May 2024 on 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.”
Photo (c) Dan Almasy
A preview of “Mind Burns Alive” arrives today with the release of their new single 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.”
Check out the video 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 now…. HERE.
Album Tracklist
1. Where The Light Fades
2. Mind Burns Alive
3. Signals
4. Endless Place
5. Daybreak
6. With Disease
