Pallbearer with Knoll

Little Rock, Arkansas’ very own doom metal quartet bring their hauntingly beautiful vocals fused together with crushing riffs and soaring solos to Kings along with Tennessee’s avant-garde death metal outfit Knoll for a night of emotive doom.  Crying in the club has never been more cathartic.  FFO: Candlemass covering Pink Floyd, Warning jamming out to Yes, and Electric Wizard fronted by Brian Eno.

Foundations of Burden (2025 Redux) is Pallbearer’s painstaking reconstruction of their landmark 2014 album, newly remixed and remastered for digital release on Nov. 7 and physical formats on Dec. 5. Originally created under chaotic conditions marked by unstable equipment, corrupted files, and an exhausted studio budget, the band always felt the album’s full sonic nuance had been compromised despite their deep love for the songs. More than a decade later, after years of performing the material and gaining clarity on how they wanted it to sound, Pallbearer rebuilt the record from the original sessions to realize that long-held vision. The six-song, 55-minute Redux features new mixes and mastering, fresh artwork by Benjamin Vierling, production by the band, mixing by Mario Quintero, and mastering by Adam Gonsalves, with select live shows planned to celebrate the album performed in full.

Akin to the unveiling of relics carved from an oaken slab, lesser so to that which artisan may conjure from nothing, Knoll seeks the most subtractive of efforts in its offerings. The method is unpinnable, yet is as such: something must be wrought from something else. Its materials predate their misuse; its result contradicts their lessening. A distillation of ingredients leaving but the brittle corpses of what was once unwarped by a wicked sieve – a wholly negative artifact as its response. And yet, they are familiar, as if these bringings have not been made, but rather freed. It is, then, the utmost purpose as sculptors, to be the conduits of an inhuman goal. That of an infinite testament, unmarred by the collection of dust, & outwardly dedicated to this prospect of impermeable meaning. It is not to say that the arbiter of such works is to be maligned, & especially not to put forth fronts in order to appear so, but that its output must be willed to suffer within these confines, lest it is worthless.