Pallbearer announce new album ‘Forgotten Days’

PALLBEARER have announced a new album!

Titled Forgotten Days, the upcoming album from the American doom metal band is their fourth full-length effort, it is the follow-up to 2017’s Heartless, and is scheduled to be released in October this year, via Nuclear Blast Records.

“Forgotten Days is us exploring what is natural to us,” says bass player/songwriter Joseph Rowland of the new album. “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. When we were writing Sorrow and Extinction, 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,” adds 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 Randall Dunn [SUNN 0))), EARTH, JOHAN JOHANNSON] produced album was recorded at Sonic Ranch Studios in West Texas. Michael Lierly, drummer Mark Lierly’s brother, once again created the album’s artwork, crafting images that were roughly hewn yet heartbreaking in their expressive heft. The striking cover is the ideal foil to PALLBEARER‘s thick musical and lyrical melancholia.

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for the first song lifted from the upcoming album; the title track Forgotten Days. “I’m extremely stoked to finally share this song with everyone,” says Brett Campbell. Commenting on the Ben Meredith directed clip, Campbell continues, “the video for Forgotten Days tells the story of an unfortunate traveler who journeys too far, and becomes lost in the depths of both inner, and outer, space. What is real when you cannot trust your own mind?”

Watch the official music video for Forgotten Days here: 

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming album below:

Track List: 

1. Forgotten Days
2. Riverbed
3. Stasis
4. Silver Wings
5. The Quicksand of Existing
6. Vengeance & Ruination
7. Rite of Passage
8. Caledonia

Forgotten Days is set for release on October 23rd via Nuclear Blast Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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