pallbearer – Announce foundations of burden 2025 redux!

PALLBEAERER’s landmark sophomore album, 2014’s Foundations of Burden will see its 2025 redux released digitally on Nov 7 and physically on Dec 05.  Pre-orders now live HERE. The acclaimed album has been given a complete remix (courtesy of Mario Quintero), and remaster (by Adam Gonsalves) with additional audio reconstruction by the band themselves, the LP given the elixir of doom to bring a new sense of exaltation to this milestone release.  The release also featuring new cover art courtesy of Benjamin Vierling.

The band comments: “During the writing and preparation for Foundations, everything was ephemeral and we were practically feral,” recalls bassist/vocalist Joseph D. Rowland. “We had no real practice space, we barely had a single working computer, and our demos were barely discernable from white noise. Nevertheless, we knew we were working towards building a set of songs we were deeply enthusiastic about. Once in the thick of recording, the feeling went from dream to dreamlike very quickly, as we found ourselves in what felt like an endless churn of repetition. We slept at the studio on whatever soft surfaces we could find, waking each day to discover that some of the previous day’s work had been corrupted overnight. This resulted in some parts of the album being recorded many times over. The numerous file corruptions, delays, and exhausted studio budget compounded into a final feverish push to finish the mix. We were relieved to get these massive and difficult mixes turned into finished songs just in time, but not without a nagging thought; we had to sacrifice much of the nuance we had spent so much time crafting.”

More than a decade later, Pallbearer seized the opportunity to revisit the record from the ground up. Over the past year, the band meticulously reconstructed the album from the original sessions.

“In the time since then, we have played most of the songs from Foundations more times than we can count, and they remain some of our favorites,” Rowland continues. “The songs have grown with us. And while we hold a deep love and attachment to what we created in 2014, we also gained a fuller understanding of how we would want to re- present them if we had a chance. After years of discussion, listening and learning, we found ourselves in the position to fulfill that vision.”