With one of this year’s most highly anticipated doom metal albums coming out in just a couple weeks in the form of Pallbearer‘s Mind Burns Alive, the band released the record’s second single “Endless Place” earlier today. And while it’s about as gloomy and downtempo as you’d expect, it’s also a very special track for one particular reason.
Accompanied by a stark black and white music video filmed and directed by Dan Almasy, “Endless Place” marks the first time that Pallbearer has ever collaborated musically with an outside talent and boy, did they make it count. In a bid to add some new emotional flavor to the piece, they tapped Amasa Hines’ Norman Williamson to play a deeply evocative saxophone solo.
According to Brett Campbell, the track falls directly in line with a previous description of the album’s feelings and subject matter.
“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.”
Originally supposed to be released back in 2020, a number of setbacks pushed it all the way back to this year. Despite all that, the band self-produced the album in their own studio after members of the band once again found themselves and their loved ones relocating near Little Rock, Arkansas for the first time in nine years.
Mind Burns Alive will be released on May 17 via Nuclear Blast Records, but you can preorder your copy today. The band is also planning to go out on tour this summer, so if you’d like to catch them live, be sure to check out the full list of dates below.
Mind Burns Alive tracklist:
1. Where The Light Fades
2. Mind Burns Alive
3. Signals
4. Endless Place
5. Daybreak
6. With Disease
“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 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
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