Metal Hammer UK

DOOM ETERNAL

After relentlessly touring their third record, Heartless, Pallbearer felt burned out. Released in 2017, it broadened the band’s commercial appeal, breaking into the Billboard Top 200 chart and earning them a Metal Hammer Golden God for Best Underground Band. Even the New York Times got in on the act, describing the album as coming very close to “capturing the uncanny allure of pop music at 16 r.p.m”. But the Heartless cycle took its toll. When the band arrived back in Little Rock, Arkansas, they had little left in their creative tanks.

“I didn’t pick up a guitar for two months when I got home,” singer Brett Campbell laughs today, speaking to us on the

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