Emotive doom authorityPALLBEARER have just wrapped up a successful European tour with peers Baroness and Graveyard, but the demand for seeing them play songs from their acclaimed 2024 album, Mind Burns Alive, is still high. That’s why the band has decided to return to Europe and the UK in 2025 to not only play the Oslo, Berlin and London editions of the renowned Desertfests and new Belgian festival Obsidian Dust, alongside select headline shows. Don’t miss out on seeing PALLBEARER in more intimate settings – it’s sure to be an intense, spectacular experience.
“Hot on the heels of the wonderful stint supporting Baroness and Graveyard this autumn, we’re pleased to announce that we’ll be crossing the Atlantic again for a headline and festival run in May of 2025!” – Joseph D. Rowland (Bass, backing vocals)
Tickets will go on sale Friday, Dec 6th at 10 AM local time.
2025 EUROPEAN TOUR DATES: 07.05. IS Reykjavik – Gaukurinn 09.05. NO Oslo – Desertfest Oslo * 10.05. DK Copenhagen – A Colossal Weekend * 11.05. DE Hamburg – Headcrash 13.05. DE Bochum – Die Trompete 14.05. DE Frankfurt – Das Bett 15.05. BE Brussels – Obsidian Dust @ Les Nuits Botanique * 16.05. FR Paris – Petit Bain 17.05. UK London – Desertfest London * 20.05. FR Lyon – Rock n Eat 21.05. CH Langenthal – Old Capitol 22.05. CZ Brno – Kabinet Muz 23.05. PL Warsaw – Hydrozagadka 24.05. DE Berlin – Desertfest Berlin *
* Festival performances
Tickets on sale from Friday, Dec 6th at 10 AM local time. All ticketing links can be found at Pallbearerdoom.com.
PALLBEARER’s highly-anticipated new album, Mind Burns Alive, is out now via Nuclear Blast Records.
To mark the release of Mind Burns Alive, the band has unveiled a video for the title track, which was directed by Dan Almasy, who has created all of the videos for the album.
“This album is for everyone who has ever felt overcome by life’s negative turns, for those who have watched people you care about degrade into the shadows of themselves, for those who search for something to believe in, and come up wanting,” vocalist/guitarist Brett Campbell shares. “This world is hard; it will eat you up, and we must lift each other up in order to make it through.
”Mind Burns Alive is available digitally, and on a variety of physical formats, including limited-edition vinyl, and CD, as well as a companion merch collection.
Pallbearer kick off their “Temporary Spaces” North American tour on June 6, with a European trek, joining Baroness and Graveyard, following later this year. Three additional European festival performances were previously announced: The Copenhell Metal Cruise (Copenhagen, DK to Oslo, NO) from Oct. 25 to 27, Hell’s Ball Belgium (Kortrijk) on Nov. 10, and Helldorado in Eindhoven, NL on Nov. 16.
EUROPEAN TOUR DATES: (all with Baroness and Graveyard except where noted) October 25 – 27 Copenhagen, DK Copenhell Metal Cruise * October 29 Gothenburg, SE Trägår’n ** October 30 Stockholm, SE Fållan ** October 31 Copenhagen, DK Amager Bio November 2 Berlin, DE Huxleys Neue Welt November 3 Krakow, PL Klub Studio ** November 6 Milan, IT Live Club November 7 Zurich, CH X-TRA November 9 Paris, FR L’Olympia November 10 Kortrijk, BE Hell’s Balls Belgium * November 11 Wiesbaden, DE Schlachthof November 13 Munich, DE Theater Fabrik November 14 Hanover, DE Capitol November 16 Eindhoven, NL Helldorado * November 17 Cologne, DE Carlswerk November 18 Luxembourg, LU Rockhall November 20 London, UK O2 Forum Kentish Town November 21 Bristol, UK Marble Factory November 22 Manchester, UK New Century Hall November 24 Dublin, IE The Academy November 25 Belfast, IE Limelight 1 November 26 Glasgow, UK SWG3 Galvanizers November 28 Nottingham, UK Rock City
*-Festival performances **-Baroness and Pallbearer only
“TEMPORARY SPACES” NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 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 20 Portland, OR Star Theater ^ 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
PALLBEARER have released a second song from their highly-anticipated new album, Mind Burns Alive (May 17, Nuclear Blast Records), with today’s arrival of the deeply moving ‘Endless Place,’ complemented by a visually striking black-and-white companion video.
‘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 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.
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.”
PALLBEARER also recently announced the “Temporary Spaces North American Tour,” a six-week North American outing that kicks off on June 6. Openers include Rwake (June 6 to 9; 29), REZN (June 11 to 29), Inter Arma (July 11 to August 3), with The Keeningopening on all dates. The band has also confirmed three special European performances: The Copenhell Metal Cruise (Copenhagen to Oslo) from Oct. 25 to 27, Hell’s Ball Belgium (Kortrijk) on Nov. 9, and Helldorado in Eindhoven (The Netherlands) on Nov. 16.
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 20 Portland, OR Star Theater ^ 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
PALLBEARER is Brett Campbell (vocals/electric guitar/synthesizer), 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, who have featured the band on their cover multiple times, declaring the band’s unique musical vision as “intense, emotional thunder.”
PALLBEARER, indisputable masters of emotionally insightful and stirring heavy music, return with their most raw and heartfelt album to date: Mind Burns Alive, coming out May 17th 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 Alivearrives 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.”
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.”
PALLBEARER – Mind Burns Alive 1. Where The Light Fades 2. Mind Burns Alive 3. Signals 4. Endless Place 5. Daybreak 6. With Disease
PALLBEARER LIVE In addition to headlining the first night of StumpfestApril 11 in Portland, OR, the band has announced a North American tour, with the six-week trek spanning the continent in what is PALLBEARER’s most extensive tour since 2018.
PALLBEARER + REZN + The Keening June 6th Memphis, TN @ Growlers* June 7th Murfreesboro, TN Hop Springs* June 8th Birmingham, @ Zydeco* June 9th Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade* June 11th Durham, NC @ The Fruit June 12th Asheville, NC @ Eulogy at Burial Beer Co. June 14th Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery June 15th Lancaster, PA @ Tellus360 June 16th Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts June 18th Hamden, CT @ Space Ballroom June 20th Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg June 21st Boston, MA @ The Sinclair June 22nd Montreal, QC @ Theatre Fairmount June 23rd Toronto, ON @ Velvet Underground June 25th Milwaukee, WI @ Vivarium June 26th Chicago, Il @ Thalia Hall June 27th St Paul, MN @ Turf Club June 28th Lawrence KS, @ The Bottleneck June 29th Little Rock, AR @ The Hall* *Direct support from RWAKE
PALLBEARER + Inter Arma + The Keening July 11th St Louis, MO @ Off Broadway July 13th Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre July 15th Calgary, AB @ Dickens July 16th Edmonton, AB @ The Starlite Room July 18th Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre July 19th Seattle, WA @ Substation July 23rd Sacramento, CA @ The Starlet Room July 24th San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall July 27th San Diego, CA @ Brick By Brick July 28th Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom July 29th Phoeniz, AZ @ Crecent Ballroom July 30th Albuquerque, NM @ Sister Bar August 1st Dallas, TX @ Trees August 2nd Austin TX @ Parish August 3rd Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
Tickets are on-sale this Friday at 10 am local time. Visit Pallbearerdoom.com for ticket links.
Arkansas avant-garde doom quartet, PALLBEARER, have released a live video for their track ‘Vengeance & Ruination’, taken from their formidable latest record Forgotten Days. The footage was recorded at St Vitus in Brooklyn, last year, during a particularly sublime performance.
Watch ‘Vengeance & Ruination (live)’:
Unable to tour around the release of Forgotten Days, Pallbearer will finally get the chance to play the album’s material during their extensive European tour, alongside heavy psych band Elder and nascent post-metallers Irist. The tour kicks off Sept 22 in Berlin, full routing below.
Pallbearer vocalist/guitarist Brett Campbell stated, “After our short run of Sorrow and Extinction anniversary shows, we are extremely ready to get back out and finally give the Forgotten Days material the road treatment in the EU and UK with Elder and Irist! See you this fall!”
Pallbearer + Elder – European Co-Headline Tour 2022 w/ special guests Irist 22 Sep SO36 – Berlin, DE 23 Sep UT Connewitz – Leipzig, DE 24 Sep Futurum Music Bar – Prague, CZ 25 Sep Proxima – Warsaw, PL 26 Sep Arena Wien – Vienna, AT 27 Sep Akvárium Klub – Budapest, HU 28 Sep Orto Bar – Ljubljana, HR 30 Sep Feierwerk – Munich, DE 01 Oct Up In Smoke Festival – Pratteln, CH 02 Oct Bloom – Milan, IT 03 Oct L’Ampérage – Grenoble, FR 06 Oct AMFest – Barcelona, ES 08 Oct Amplifest – Porto, ES 09 Oct Okkult Session 3 – Madrid, ES 11 Oct Le Rex de Toulouse – Toulouse, FR 12 Oct Rockstore – Montpellier, FR 13 Oct Le Ferrailleur – Nantes, FR 14 Oct Petit Bain – Paris, FR 15 Oct Desert Fest Antwerp – Antwerp, BE 16 Oct Poppodium 013 – Tilburg, NL 18 Oct Fonden Voxhall – Aarhus, DK 19 Oct Parkteatret Scene – Oslo, NO 20 Oct Union Scene – Drammen, NO 21 Oct Folken – Stavanger, NO 22 Oct Kulturhuset – Bergen, NO 25 Oct Slaktkyrkan – Stockholm, SE 26 Oct Pustervik – Gothenburg, SE 28 Oct Pumpehuset – Copenhagen, DK 29 Oct Gruenspan – Hamburg, DE 30 Oct Desertfest Ghent – Gent, BE 31 Oct JunkYard – Dortmund, DE 02 Nov Chalk – Brighton, UK 03 Nov The Fleece – Bristol, UK 04 Nov EartH – London, UK 05 Nov Damnation – Manchester, UK
Unique Arkansas progressive doom quartet, 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‘. At this handful of select shows, encompassing both festival and club shows, the band will perform the album in its entirety.
The band have released a live video of ‘Sorrow & Extinction‘ openingtrack ‘Foreigner‘, from their recent show at Saint Vitus, Brooklyn. Watch HERE.
Sorrow & Extinction – 10 Year Anniversary 04 Aug RU Moscow, Klub Gorod 05 Aug RU Saint Petersburg, Lastochka 06 Aug FI Helsinki, On The Rocks 09 Aug CZ Josefov-Jaromer, Brutal Assault 10 Aug DE Kassel, Goldbrube 11 Aug NL Haarlem, Patronaat 12 Aug BE Courtrai, Alcatraz 13 Aug DE Osnabrück, Bastard Club 14 Aug DE Oberhausen, Kulttempel 16 Aug DE Wiesbaden, Kesselhaus 17 Aug DE Dinkelsbühl, Summer Breeze 18 Aug DE Karlsruhe, Dudefest 19 Aug FR Saint Nolff, Motocultor 20 Aug UK Somerset, Arctangent
Pallbearer will be celebrating a decade of ‘Sorrow & Extinction‘ over the course of 2022. Throughout the year, look out for more anniversary show news, limited edition merch, and a limited deluxe vinyl package via 20 Buck Spin.
Pallbearer, formed in Little Rock, Arkansas by Brett Campbell, Joseph D. Rowland, and Devin Holt, were, on the release of their debut LP, ‘Sorrow & Extinction‘, at the vanguard of the resurgence in doom metal.
At just under fifty minutes, the five tracks that make up ‘Sorrow & Extinction‘ are towering aural force. The seminal record instantly made waves among listeners and critics who found Pallbearer’s compositional paradox of vulnerability and might to be unparalleled.
Pitchfork heralded ‘Sorrow & Extinction‘ “a triumph,” while NPR claimed the songs on the album “challenge the doom gods themselves for a place on the throne.” The album was both Stereogum and Pitchfork’s #1 Metal Album of 2012 and was Spin’s #2 Metal Album of the Year in 2012.
A decade later, ‘Sorrow & Extinction‘ is no less an achievement.
The ‘Sorrow & Extinction‘ shows aren’t Pallbearer‘s only European dates this year. The band will be returning overseas for their first shows in support of their 2020 acclaimed album ‘Forgotten Days’ on an extensive co-headline tour this Autumn with Elder, plus special guests Irist.
Pallbearer + Elder – European Co-Headline Tour 2022 w/ Special Guests Irist 22 Sep Berlin, DE 23 Sep Leipzig, DE 24 Sep Prague, CZ 25 Sep Warsaw, PL 26 Sep Vienna, AT 27 Sep Budapest, HU 28 Sep Ljubljana, HR 30 Sep Munich, DE 01 Oct Pratteln, CH 02 Oct Milan, IT 03 Oct Grenoble, FR 06 Oct Barcelona, ES 08 Oct Porto, ES 09 Oct Madrid, ES 11 Oct Toulouse, FR 12 Oct Montpellier, FR 13 Oct Nantes, FR 14 Oct Paris, FR 16 Oct Tilburg, NL 18 Oct Aarhus, DK 19 Oct Oslo, NO 20 Oct Drammen, NO 21 Oct Stavanger, NO 22 Oct Bergen, NO 25 Oct Stockholm, SE 26 Oct Gothenburg, SE 28 Oct Copenhagen, DK 29 Oct Hamburg, DE 31 Oct Dortmund, DE 02 Nov Brighton, UK 03 Nov Bristol, UK 04 Nov London, UK 05 Nov Manchester, UK
Pallbearer‘slatest album, the critically acclaimed LP ‘Forgotten Days‘ was released in 2020. The band are currently working on new material.
Pallbearer formed in Little Rock, Arkansas USA in 2008. A heavy rock band from the South isn’t that unlikely, but one that is responsible for, in part, rekindling America’s (and the world’s) passion for heavy rock/doom metal is all but unbelievable. From ’Sorrow and Extinction‘ (2012) and ‘Foundations of Burden‘ (2014) to ‘Heartless‘ (2017) and ‘Forgotten Days‘(2020), Pallbearer ignited in generations new and grizzled, not just a renewed interest in originators such as Black Sabbath and Candlemass but also infatuation over echelons of lesser-knowns.
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