Baroness

Baroness - Yellow and Green (Relapse Records)

You can't compare apples with oranges (or Reds or Blues)...
Release Date: 
16 Jul 2012 - 11:30pm

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

John Baizley: Fuck You, Indifference!

Green and Yellow? Love it or loathe it but please, nothing in between...

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: New Tour Dates Announced.

With Meshuggah and Decapitated sharing the bill, this promises to be one of the tours of the Spring for American audiences!

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

'Were Metallica dicks? No, they were really cool!' John Baizley chews the fat with Metal as Fuck...

John Baizley saved Soundwave 2010! What a legend!

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

Baroness: Out of the Blue

For Baroness, it's all about evolution. But will the fans follow the band out of their own brand of primordial, sludgy ooze?

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

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

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