pallbearer released two fantastic full length records so far. "sorrow and extinction" from 2012 and "foundations of burden" from two years later are doom metal masterpieces. the band delivers a complete package. outstanding music, ominous lyrics, masterful artwork, lovely vinyl presentations - the real deal. as i am not the only one being aware of the quality that is a pallbearer record, it is very likely that a new release of theirs would sell out at pre-order stage. so when the "fear and fury" e.p. was announced, it was about to act quickly.
fortunately i check the lambgoat upcoming releases page quite regularly. this is how the word reached me. the next thing that was to my advantage was that profound lore records, pallbearers label at the moment, has now one of those lovely european stores, which makes it way more reasonable to order stuff because of lower shipping costs. when i hit the store, the gold vinyl out of 100 copies were already gone, which wasn't that much of a problem because the colour-ways out of 200 copies each were looking way more attractive.
there was a yellow/blue merge and a red/orange merge vinyl version. the decision was easy as the yellow/blue one was already sold out as well. so the red/orange was added to my cart and i checked it out without further hesitation. the pre-order process took one and a half month or so and i almost forgot about it until it showed up last week safe and sound. it was extremely well packed, the record inside an addtional pvc dust sleeve outside cover and printed dust sleeve, so none of the sleeves could suffer from any seam-splits. thumbs up!
musically there isn't much to tell. i knew the song "fear and fury" from the decibel flexi disc i got with my order of the "foundations of burden" record last year, and the remaining two songs are cover songs. there is a bit boring version of sabbath's "over and over" and an ok version of one of type o's greatest - "love you to death". the presentation on the other hand is a scorcher. lovely die-cut sleeve with beautiful art on the dust sleeve, an etched b-side and a hot vinyl colour pattern. still, give me a full length, pallbearer! profound lore records. 2016.
