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PALLBEARER Premiere ‘The Quicksand Of Existing’ Music Video
September 18th, 2020

Little Rock, Arkansas-based progressive doom metal group Pallbearer have filmed a music video for the track ‘The Quicksand Of Existing’. Directed by Ben Meredith, the clip can be viewed below.

Speaking about the song, bassist Joseph Rowland said: “As we strive to be, the forces of entropy perpetually pull us down into a state of being unmade. The body degrades; the mind and memories fray into unwoven threads, no longer connected to the rich fabric of the self. Choices made upon our separate and conjoined paths may find us engulfed in a mire of our unmaking. I wanted this song to face this reality with a grim determination.”

Pallbearer issue fourth full-length studio album Forgotten Days on October 23rd, 2020 through Nuclear Blast Records.

Rowland commented: “Forgotten Days is us exploring what is natural to us. The songs tell me where I need to go when I write. We wanted to focus on songs that were visceral and enjoyable to play live – that our audiences would enjoy experiencing. We’re also getting back to more of the groovier and heavier elements of Pallbearer. Heartless is fairly uptempo and technical. This one is a little more open, it hammers you.”

“This record has a lot of thematic ties to our first record,” Rowland continued. “When we were writing Sorrow And Extinction (2012), my mother was terminally ill. It’s been 10 years since she passed. It’s taken me all of this time to take a really good look at myself. While we were writing Forgotten Days, I knew, ‘Now is the time to sit down and begin to understand who I have become.’”

“Joe and I have always written lyrics separately,” added vocalist / guitarist Brett Campbell. “But we always end up with lyrics that are connected by threads. I’m not sure why that is. Maybe it’s because we’ve been in close proximity for a long while. Between Heartless and Forgotten Days, we were home for an extended period of time. I think we finally had time to reflect. Memory is a big aspect of the new record. The passage of time. How things change as perspective changes. Was the past truly the way that you remember it at all?”

The track ‘Rite Of Passage’ can be streamed below.

Forgotten Days was recorded at Sonic Ranch Studios in West Texas with producer Randall Dunn.

Cover artwork duties fell to Michael Lierly, drummer Mark Lierly’s brother, once again.

The track listing is as follows;

01. ‘Forgotten Days’
02. ‘Riverbed’
03. ‘Stasis’
04. ‘Silver Wings’
05. ‘The Quicksand Of Existing’
06. ‘Vengeance & Ruination’
07. ‘Rite Of Passage’
08. ‘Caledonia’

Pallbearer’s line-up is as follows;

Brett Campbell (vocals and guitars)
Devin Holt (guitars)
Joseph D. Rowland (bass and vocals)
Mark Lierly (drums)

Directed by Ben Meredith, a music video was filmed for the title track. In addition, an alternate cinematic version for ‘Forgotten Days’ was also released. Both clips can be viewed below.

Third studio record Heartless was released in March 2017 via Nuclear Blast.

Promotional photograph by Jacob Slaton and Ebru Yildiz.