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Following extensive tour dates and festival appearances, celebrating their album, Foundations of Burden, Pallbearer have added a fresh set of North American dates. The lengthy run hits Texas, California, Pacific Northwest, the midwest and more, seeing the band performing the record in its entirety. Keep reading below for live listings and more.
Get tickets from Wednesday, July 1 at 10am local time here: https://www.pallbearerdoom.com/
Buy Foundations of Burden here: https://pallbearer.bandcamp.com/album/foundations-of-burden-2025-redux
Pallbearer comment: “We can’t overstate how great it’s been to revisit this record and share the experience of it with so many people over the past year. It’s always been a hugely impactful record for us, and letting it live and breathe over the course of the year has been such a joyful opportunity. We plan for these shows to be the final North American tour dates for the album so if you’ve been hoping for a chance to dwell within Foundations’ sonics, don’t miss out! We are also completely thrilled to have two captivating and masterful bands in Slowhole and Ordh along for these dates!”
Pallbearer, Foundations of Burden tour:
Aug 20 Shreveport, LA — Bear’s *
Aug 21 Houston, TX — Black Magic Social Club *
Aug 22 McAllen, TX — The Gremlin *
Aug 23 Austin, TX — Brushy Street Commons *
Aug 25 Dallas, TX — AM/FM *
Aug 27 Arenas Valley, NM — Whiskey Creek Zócalo *
Aug 28 Tucson, AZ — Soundquest Festival
Sep 01 San Diego, CA — The Casbah ^
Sep 02 Santa Ana, CA — Constellation Room ^
Sep 03 Los Angeles, CA — Echoplex ^
Sep 05 San Francisco, CA — Great American Music Hall ^
Sep 06 San Jose, CA — The Ritz ^
Sep 08 Eugene, OR — John Henry’s ^
Sep 09 Portland, OR — Polaris ^
Sep 11 Bellingham, WA — The Shakedown ^
Sep 12 Vancouver, BC — The American ^
Sep 13 Seattle, WA — Substation ^
Sep 14 Spokane, WA — Brightside ^
Sep 15 Boise, ID — Shrine Social Club ^
Sep 16 Salt Lake City, UT — Urban Lounge ^
Sep 18 Denver, CO — Marquis ^
Sep 19 Omaha, NE — Slowdown ^
Sep 21 St. Paul, MN — Turf Club ^
Sep 22 Chicago, IL — Empty Bottle ^
Sep 23 Muskegon, MI — Rake Beer Project ^
Sep 24 Cincinnati, OH — Woodward Theater ^
Sep 25 Lexington, KY — The Burl ^
* with Slowhole
^ with Ordh
Pallbearer’s Foundations of Burden (2025 Redux) is a lovingly reconstituted rendering of their milestone 2014 album. “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. Nevertheless, we knew we were working towards building a set of songs we were deeply enthusiastic about. 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 day’s work had been corrupted overnight. This resulted in some parts of the album being recorded many times over. The guitars in particular mutated into something Sisyphean.”
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. We were relieved to get those massive and difficult mixes turned into finished songs just in time, but not without a nagging thought; we had to sacrifice much of the nuance we had spent so much time crafting.”
After many discussions and plans were charted during the decade following the 2014 release, Pallbearer seized the opportunity to revisit the record from the ground up. Over the course of 2025, the band laboriously reconstructed the album from the original sessions, as well as recording new versions of the colossal rhythm guitars that define the sonic identity of the record as well as the band.
“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. After years of discussion, listening and learning, we found ourselves in the position to fulfill that vision.”
Foundations of Burden (2025 Redux) features new mixes and mastering, plus new artwork featuring a painting by Benjamin Vierling. The six-song, 55-minute collection is produced by Pallbearer, mixed by Mario Quintero (Spotlights), and mastered by Adam Gonsalves, as well as original engineering by Billy Anderson in 2014.
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