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Pallbearer / Nuclear Blast Records Anyone who thinks doom is all dirge and dragged-out riffs has clearly never heard Pallbearer. Over 12 years and three albums, the Arkansas quartet have risen as the leaders of left-field doom – their love of classic prog as strong as their Sabbath-soaked foundations. They also manage to add all manner of emotions into their music – from crushing gloom to soaring uplift. How many doom bands can say that? For fourth album Forgotten Days, the band worked with producer Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Earth), and the album is a darker, more aggressive beast than 2017’s Heartless. This is evident from the get-go with the dense, classic metal-style grooves that burst out from the opening title track, and the heaviness continues with the rumbling intensity of The Quicksand Of Existing and the jarring chug of Vengeance & Ruination. But this being Pallbearer, variety is key. Stasis’ rousing riffs meld with cosmic effects, the beautiful Riverbed is softly forlorn, and that a
