Hard music band Pillar lets loose its fourth studio album, The Reckoning, Oct. 3rd. The project evolves Pillar’s sound, while recalling elements of its musical and cultural upbringing.

Produced by Travis Wyrick and Pillar and mixed by David Bendeth (Hawthorne Heights, As I Lay Dying, Breaking Benjamin), The Reckoning carries on the Midwest’s legacy of rich rock with sounds and themes inspired by Pillar’s home turf.

“The majority of this country is small-town America and suburban living out in the middle of nowhere,” comments frontman Rob Beckley. “Those type of hardworking people, that’s who we are, that’s where we come from. And there it’s all about AC/DC and Lynryd Skynyrd. Rock and roll in the Midwest is rock and roll.”

Pillar innovates its rock and roll style on The Reckoning, experimenting with musical genres, vocal technique and song narratives. Tracks like Sometimes skips with infectious punk urgency while the melancholy ballad Angel in Disguise is lyrically laid out like a country tune. Beckley also uses his voice as an instrument for the first time in the haunting introduction to Last Goodbye.

“We’re concerned with what our fans think of us,” Beckley grants. “And we don’t want to let them down, but at the same time we know that in order to grow you can’t stay stagnant.”

Pillar’s first single from the record, Everything, goes for adds at Rock radio in August. The band will headline the “Days of Reckoning Tour” this fall featuring Kids in the Way, Dead Poetic and Showdown. Stay tuned to YourMusicZone.com for more information.

Since the band’s Dove Award-winning 2001 debut Above, Flicker Records artist Pillar has seen unprecedented success in every aspect of its career. With seven No. 1 radio singles and eleven Top 5 hits to its credit, Pillar has earned an additional three Dove Awards, headlined seven national tours, performed for more than two million people, and been featured on the covers of Radio & Records, Rockline Magazine, CCM Magazine, 7ball Magazine, Breakaway Magazine, HM Magazine, and Christian Retailing. The band has also received print coverage in Rolling Stone, Spin, Bass Player, and Hit Parader.

Pillar’s video Bring Me Down saw heavy rotation on the Fuse TV program “Rockzilla” and was voted No. 1 at Fuse TV’s “Oven Fresh.” The band additionally won Fuse TV’s Next Big Thing award. Most recently, Teen Mania tapped Pillar’s “Frontline” as the 18-month-long theme song for its “BattleCry” campaign with the organization filming an accompanying music video that aired at events in arenas nationwide.

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