
Pallbearer / Ordh / Barren Heir
About This Event
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+Pallbearers Foundations of Burden (2025 Redux) is a meticulous sonic reconstruction of their transformative, landmark 2014 album. The newly remixed and remastered version arrives digitally on Nov. 7, with physical editions (2xLP and CD) available on Dec.
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 between the four of us.
Our demos of the record consisted of something barely discernible from white noise. 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 days work had been corrupted overnight.
This resulted in some parts of the album being recorded many times over. 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.
More than a decade later, Pallbearer seized the opportunity to revisit the record from the ground up. 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. Foundations of Burden (2025 Redux) features new mixes and mastering, plus new artwork featuring a painting by Benjamin Vierling. In celebration of the 2025 Redux edition of their landmark album Pallbearer will be playing select shows performing Foundations of Burden in full.