Fear & Fury

Pallbearer is an American colossus, rooted in doom metal but shaping their own musical paradigm unfettered by the confines of genre. Initially formed in Little Rock, AR by Joseph D Rowland (bass) and Brett Campbell (vocals / guitars) and later Joined by Devin Holt (guitar), the line up was solidified by the addition of Mark Lierly (drums) after the recording of their debut LP. That album, 2012’s Sorrow and Extinction, captured the primal heaviness of the band’s live show but expanded beyond a reliance on pure volume. It wavers beautifully between subdued introspection and towering aural force. 2014’s Foundations of Burden built on the groundwork of their debut, evoking a complex melodic consciousness, each song imbued with a weight of devastating melancholy. Produced and mixed by Billy Anderson (Sleep, Agalloch, Red House Painters), the album saw Pallbearer forging it’s own brilliantly desolate path, seeking balance at the very threshold of an unforgiving void. Fear and Fury is their latest release. A strictly limited, beautifully packaged 12” comprised of three tracks: a remastered version of the band's titular 2015 single and cover versions of Black Sabbath's Over and Over and Type O Negative's Love You To Death.

The Arkansas doom metal band's stopgap EP features a Black Sabbath cover, a Type O Negative cover, and one original that reinforces their place among the best of them.