PALLBEARER

INTERVIEW WITH VOCALIST/GUITARIST/SYNTH PLAYER BRETT CAMPBELL BY ADDISON HERRON-WHEELER

Pallbearer are holed up in their ber 23 via Nuclear Blast. cess and created this album, with home studio, working on mu- some songs left over. sic and waiting ’til they can go “We figured we would just write out and tour again. They’ve songs that we’d enjoy playing live, “I wanted to have nothing to do with written some really heavy, really sad that would go over well,” Camp- music,” Campbell says. “I didn’t songs, possibly opening themselves bell says. “So, it’s got elements from want to listen to music or make up more than ever before. all of our previous material kind of music. I was just so tired, and then wrapped in a pretty direct package.” one day that passed, and I started “We’ve done some pretty aggressive writing loads and loads of materiand heavy songs that would work The album is the result of an emo- al, so we ended up with a surplus of really well live, and we’re still kind tional and musical outpouring af- music. We put together the ones we of experimenting with structure, ter pain and heartache. Campbell thought would make the most cobut it’s way less of an overall ex- went through a period where he herent album into Forgotten Days.” periment than our past album was,” didn’t want to listen to or make musays vocalist, synth player, and gui- sic, and bassist, vocalist, and synth “I think a lot of the lyrics on this one tarist Brett Campbell. player Joseph Rowland was deal- were a kind of self-reflection and ing with losing his mother. Then, coming to terms with a lot of the Pallbearer’s forthcoming album, when the time was right, the band personal, emotional, how we’ve Forgotten Days, will be out on Octo- came back to the songwriting pro- dealt with that for the past ten years,” he adds. “A lot of it was rumination from Joe on the person he’s become and his personal growth, and a lot of the songs were inspired by the various people in our lives. So, there’s a lot of reflection.”

Pallbearer hope to get back out on stages, at least in Europe, next year, but have resigned themselves to the idea that touring could be a way off. They’re excited about what comes next, though, and fully ready to unleash the force of Forgotten Days on eager listeners.

Stream the new record this October via Nuclear Blast. �� �� ��

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