Brett Campbell looks back on the beginnings of Pallbearer with the strained eyes and relief of one recalling a void into which they very nearly slipped. Leaving high school to enrol in the University of Central Arkansas, the future frontman was more interested in finding musical connection than any kind of conventional career prospect. And though the colourful chaos of first band Sports was an explosive outlet, he couldn’t escape the gravitational pull of a black hole building inside. “I was totally lost,” he remembers. “I had a lot of suicidal ideation. I was smoking tons of weed, drinking a lot, basically consuming all of these substances to try and obliterate myself, to escape, as much as I could. I was just running, running from life. Music was ...