Baroness

By Chris Richards Head-bangerst have Georgia on their minds. Two of this year's most exciting rock albums come from Savannah's Baroness and Atlanta's Mastodon, positing the Peach State as the new locus of American heavy metal. The...

In this article: John Dyer Baizley, Georgia, No Quarter, Kudzu, Allman Brothers, Metallica, and Led Zeppelin

...lines; occasionally, pig-tailed bassist Summer Welch joined the other two to underscore a phrase. Baroness distills metal's recent tendencies. Its music resembles that of Explosions in the Sky (who've also worked with Blue Record producer...

In this article: John Baizley, Savannah, Herman Hesse, and Explosions in the Sky

The Codex Necro set a standard of blackened death that still hasn't been equaled. Baroness, Blue Record (2009) I was a late adopter with Baroness. The earliest stuff left me cold, and while the virtues of Red Album were easy to...

In this article: Matt Pike, Melvins, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, The A.V. Club, Boris, Oceanic, Deftones, Opeth, Slayer, and Anaal Nathrakh

...would? Not really. What we've always tried to do is treat everything going on outside of the band independently from what's going on inside the band. This might not be interesting from the journalistic side of things, but good, bad, or...

In this article: Torche, Savannah, John Baizley, Washington, D.C, and Georgia

...Mystery Zone" Fool's Gold Get Mashed With Mariah, Remixed By Mad Decent Black Moth Super Rainbow Remix Air (Stereogum Premiere) More MP3s Baroness - "A Horse Called Golgotha" Bottled Moz Cuts UK Gig After One Song Jarvis Cocker - "Further...

In this article: Stereogum, Bowery Ballroom, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Radio Shack, and Norah Jones

...to begin while saying that this is the follow up I was begging for after the Red Album. The Blue Record comes from a more matured Baroness, meaning that they have taken what they have learned from their previous albums, in what works and...

In this article: Red Album and Logical next step

Album Review Blue Record, the second LP from Savannah, Ga., hero-metal quartet Baroness, feels like it spins for either 30 or 90 minutes, but never the 44 minutes the tracklist advertises. Full of stops and starts, dynamic swells and swan...

In this article: John Congleton, John Baizley, Red Album, Marc Rizzo, Explosions in the Sky, and Torche

Unlike many young bands that need time to find their identity, Baroness arrived five years ago with a fully-formed sound that immediately separated them from the rest of the American metal pack, the early First and Second EPs and the 2007...

In this article: Red Album, Torche, John Baizley, In the Future, Potato, Thin Lizzy, A Grey Sigh in a Flower Husk, and Black Mountain

..."Christmas in the Heart," out today. Read the full review. Also reviewed in today's Post: Quick: "Blue Record" by metal band Baroness "injects an ineffable Southern indie-metal vibe into its groove"; "Embryonic" by shape-shifting...

In this article: Bob Dylan, Don't Think Twice, and Bangladesh

As your legs buckle beneath the Viking stomp of Baroness, it's easy to imagine the four musicians dressed in wolf and bear hides as they tote axes (the guitar kind) and drumsticks (the half-eaten kind) into town for some friendly pillaging...

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