Continuing to celebrate their “Foundations of Burden” album, Pallbearer have planned a North American tour and have recently added some new dates to the tour.

Pallbearer’s Joseph D. Rowland spoke on the album saying, “during the writing and preparation for ‘Foundations,’ everything was ephemeral and we were practically feral.  We had no real practice space, we barely had a single working computer between the four of us. Our demos of the record consisted of something barely discernible 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 guitars in particular mutated into something Sisyphean.”
Rowland continues, “since the time that we finally committed the original version of ‘Foundations’ to print, we knew it would be a sonic space we would eventually revisit. Its form did not unfold according to the original version as the numerous file corruptions, delays, and exhausted studio budget compounded into a final feverish push to finish the mix. We were relieved to get those 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.”

The album has been redone; Rowland notes, “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.”

Knoll and Blood Vulture will be special guests on select dates.

Pallbearer tour dates:
March 27 at the White Water Tavern in Little Rock, AR
April 8 at Zanzabar in Louisville, KY
April 10 at the Grog Shop in Cleveland, OH
April 11 at the Rec Room in Buffalo, NY
April 12 at the Stone Church in Brattleboro, VT
April 14 at Oxbow in Portland, ME
April 15 at the Press Room in Portsmouth, NH
April 17 at the Hopsmokerfest in Braintree, MA
April 18 at Elsewhere in Brooklyn, NY
April 19 at the Ottobar in Baltimore, MD
April 20 at the Underground Arts in Philadelphia, PA
April 21 at The Annex in Norfolk, VA
April 22 at Kings in Raleigh, NC
April 23 at The Pilot Light in Knoxville, TN
May 28 at Ace of Cups in Columbus, OH
May 29 at Frankie’s in Toledo, OH
May 30 at Prepare the Ground Festival in Toronto, ON
May 31 at the Piranha Bar in Montreal, QC
June 2 at the Empire Underground in Albany, NY
June 3 at Spirit in Pittsburgh, PA
June 4 at the Pyramid Scheme in Grand Rapids, MI
June 5 at the Metal Fest in Milwaukee, WI
June 6 at the Loose Cobra in Tolono, IL
June 7 at Cannery Hall in Nashville, TN