Photo Credit: Sharon Alagna
Doom Metal band Pallbearer promise epic heaviness to come. The Little Rock, Arkansas foursome just released the single “Thorns” along with the announced March 24th release of the studio album Heartless. If Heartless, the album, is anything like Thorns, the song, then headbangers alike will have plenty of post music-listening, neck-straining kinks to ask their girlfriends to work out for them (i.e. Pallbearer’s new single will melt minds).
Out on Profound Lore, the new record according to the quintet, “as evidenced by this new song, Pallbearer have fused their widest musical palette to date and make the kind of heavy rock that will appeal to diehards, but could also find the group crossing over into newer territories. The band offers a complex sonic architecture on Heartless that weaves together the spacious exploratory elements of classic prog, the raw anthemics of 90’s alt-rock, and stretches of black-lit proto-metal. Lyrics about mortality, life, and love are set to sharp melodies and pristine three-part harmonies.
Recorded on analog tape at Fellowship Hall Sound in their hometown of Little Rock and mixed by Joe Barresi (Queens of the Stone Age, Tool, Melvins, Soundgarden), Heartless is grander in scope than anythingPallbearer have released prior, showcasing a natural progression that melds higher technicality and more ambitious structures with their most immediate hooks to date.”
Fans of the band in question can catch them on tour over the February and March; and, those inquiring can find the new track, Thorns, alongside the tour dates, and the new-album track listing below.
Pallbearer Tour Dates
February 24 Austin, TX @ Barracuda *
March 22 Little Rock, AR @ Revolution Music Room
March 23 Nashville, TN @ The End
March 25 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
March 28 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
March 29 Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme
March 31 Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
* w/ The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Heartless Track Listing
1. I Saw the End
2. Thorns
3. Lie of Survival
4. Dancing in Madness
5. Cruel Road
6. Heartless
7. A Plea for Understanding
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