Baroness

Baroness club shows announced!

Following the positive reception of being announced as support for Metallica, Metal as Fuck & Soundwave Touring present Baroness: three intimate club shows on the Eastern seaboard.

 

Riding Into Parts Unknown: Summer Welch of Baroness

Riding a wave of almost universal acclaim on their sophomore release, sludge metal pioneers Baroness are travelling even further South for Australia’s Soundwave Festival and a side-show tour with Isis. Summer Welch, the articulate bassist for the enigmatic quartet, talks all things brutal, blue and metal.

Every time a metalhead mentions “weird” and “metal” in the same breath, Baroness are invariably part of the conversation.

Crushtor's Top 5 Metal Videos of 2009

The most cynical watcher of metal videos summons the courage to name a short-list of outstanding videos all with something in common: not a warehouse to be seen.

I have said before that metal videos pretty much suck.

Soundwave Festival (Australia) 2010

Metalheads around Australia will likely be blown away by the announcement that Anthrax is joining the Soundwave lineup.
Tour Dates: 
20/02/2010 - 01/03/2010
Venues: 
RNA Showgrounds (Brisbane)
Eastern Creek Raceway (Sydney)
Showgrounds (Melbourne)
Bonython Park (Adelaide)
Steel Blue Oval (Perth)

Baroness - Blue Record (Relapse/Riot)

Fusing a thick, sludgy groove with some unexpected elements, like different time signatures, trippy psychadelic passages, and acoustic passages, that result in an ecletic piece - one that can challenge the listener's senses, and even their musical perception.

Being a band on the Relapse label in today's music scene at times can tend to compare you against one of their most successful artists in Mastodon and that can be

Free metal night @ Fontana's Bar NYC, 1 Oct 09

We are only one week away from another FREE Metal Night presented by Tonesofdeath.com.
Venues: 
Fontana's Bar (New York City)
Gig Dates: 
01/10/2009 - 8:00pm