Pallbearer, 2010 Demo
1February 11, 2012 by hhbrady
Detuned Arkansas (funereal) doom metal, though with more in common with foreign acts like Mournful Congregation and Paradise Lost.
And with the cover of “Gloomy Sunday,” that’s one Billie Holiday tune down– if they ever did “Strange Fruit” I’d probably kill myself right there. Their version of “Gloomy Sunday” is RIDICULOUSLY depressing.
And that’s a compliment.
Anyway, the whole thing’s free. Gobble that shit up.
[...] Pallbearer are Candlemass, if they were John D. Cronise’s baby from Austin, TX rather than Leif Edling’s from Stockholm, Sweden. Sorrow and Extinction, on Profound Lore, has a scruffy, low-fi, hipster solemn majesty about it; one quasi-religious, madrigal-like, evoking monks and monasteries and ascetics and deep, grave reverence. [...]