Foundations of Burden

Pitchfork 8.6/10 Doom outfit Pallbearer's ascension as one of metal's crossover acts started with 2012's Sorrow and Extinction, and with the release of their brilliant second album, it's easy to imagine them gaining even more popularity. Foundations finds a band firing on all cylinders and surpassing what already seemed like a watermark for the genre.

A.V. Club A The radical yet inevitable way Deafheaven’s sophomore album, Sunbather, has remade black metal into something richly emotive, melodic, and transcendent is one of the heavy metal’s big success stories of the past couple of years. But the Arkansas outfit Pallbearer has done something similarly profound with the subgenre…

The Line of Best Fit 8/10 Doom metal quartet from Little Rock create another classic for Profound Lore.

Angry Metal Guy 4.5/5 A review of Foundations of Burden by Pallbearer, available August 19th in North America and August 22th in Europe via Profound Lore Records. DOOM!