PALLBEARER Foundations Of Burden (2014) Digipak CD

Some records don't just play, they weather you. Pallbearer's second album arrived in 2014 and immediately ended conversations about whether American doom had anything left to say.

The Little Rock four-piece had already announced themselves with Sorrow and Extinction, but Foundations of Burden is where the architecture got truly crushing. This is doom metal that earns every minute of its runtime, built on cascading riffs, clean vocals that actually soar, and a production weight that sits in your chest. No posturing, no irony, just grief rendered in slow motion. The digipak format does it justice.

Digipak CD, 2014 press, origin USA.

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