Baroness

"What?!" I hear readers exclaim, "Baroness and Grieg; bitterly disappointing?" - Well, fear not, I refer to my ailing health not the bands.

Last week when I spoke to John Dyer Baizley, he was at home in Philadelphia. Now he’s here, in Australia, blowing our fucking minds with the rest of the Baroness fellas.

The Roundhouse was already considerably full by the time Gojira took to the stage.

I’m not one for painting people as heroes or brave little soldiers but you’ve got to doff your cap to John Baizley (and indeed everyone else involved in last year’s bus crash).

This little four track EP was recorded at Studio 4 for the BBC's Rock Show in July 2012; about a month before those unlucky Baroness fellows were

The word that flashes in my mind like neon dogs balls is 'harmony' - not that the Red Album (2007) or the Blue Record (2009) lacked harmony; it's just that Yellow and Green

I was told that John Baizley and the Baroness fellows would be taking calls from the back of a tour van somewhere between Denmark and Sweden so it was a pleasant s

Baroness has announced a three and a half week North American tour with Swedish prog-titans Meshuggah and Polish death metallers Decapitated.

I almost expected an accent as thick as swamp mud but when John Baizley, artist, guitarist and vocalist with Baroness, gets on the phone I find him both articulate

Sometimes a certain scene seems to blow up thanks in part to the meteoric success of a few bands that come to define a particular region’s trademark sound or, once in a great while, transcend