Album Review: Pallbearer - Foundations Of Burden

When you think of Arkansas chances are it will conjure up images of the idyllic American south. That's where Pallbearer come in to ruin it all. This Little Rock quartet peddle the suffocating gloom of doom metal.

Pallbearer's 2012 debut album, Sorrow and Extinction, was heralded as a shot in the arm for this notoriously mopey genre, so what do they bring to the table with album number two, the imposingly titled Foundations of Burden?? The key to the band's sound is the incense and witchcraft of heavy metal circa 1975 - beefed up with modern technology and intensity...

Click here to read Ricardo Kerr's full review of Pallbearer's new album.