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Who: Allen Blickle • Drums Summer Welch • Bass John Baizley • Guitar / Vocals Pete Adams • Guitar / Vocals
The forceful BARONESS formed in the Summer 2003 in Savannah, GA with all members, past and present, hailing from Lexington, VA in the foothills of the mighty Blue Ridge Mountains . Maybe that’s where the band draws inspiration for their majestic music, or maybe their noble noise is inspired by their name, or maybe its just when these four band-mates come together the end result is always bold and impressive.
Discography:
EPs:
2004 - First
1. Tower Falls 2. Coeur 3. Rise
Debut CDEP from Savannah, GA's Baroness. Incredibly heavy, incredibly technical and just completely amazing. Everything from thunderous stoner riffs to full on d-beat thrash aggression. Try to imagine the fury of Tragedy and the talent of quacking Champs and you're getting close. A three song EP clocking in at 18 minutes and it doesn't let up until its over. Produced by Phillip Cope of Kylesa.
"Tower Falls" from "First"
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1 Red Sky 2 Son of Sun 3 Vision
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2007 - A Grey Sigh in a Flower Husk (with Unpersons)
1. Teiresias 2. Cavite
Reviews:
Alternative Press - 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "Savannah, Georgia's favorite unwashed, noisy sons produce music that heaves with a squalid pulchritude. Heroes of the basement underground, Baroness have dazzled with their prog-metal mayhem. They share much in common with peers Intronaut or titans Mastodon, issuing forth epics marked by endless shifts in tone, temperament and tempo."
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LPs: 2007 - Red Album
1 - Rays on Pinion 2 - The Birthing 3 - Isak 4 - Wailing Wintry Wind 5 - Cockroach en Fleur 6 - Wanderlust 7 - Aleph 8 - Teeth of a Cogwheel 9 - O'Appalachia 10 - Grad 11 - Untitled (Hidden track)
Reviews:
Pitchfork - Like prophets, Savannah, Ga., metal quartet Baroness named its earliest releases First and Second. Their third-- and first for Relapse Records-- is called Red Album, and it's seven minutes longer than its predecessors combined. It's also more ambitious, more accomplished, simply bigger: Here, the ideas Baroness have offered since 2003-- a colossal, airtight rhythm section backing sludge-of-the-South vocals and guitars-- are realized with purpose and aim. (entire review)
Spin - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Like all good prog-inspired bands, they wedge in an acoustic interlude here and there just for kicks, but quickly return to riffs that knot up tightly..."(entire review)
1. Bullhead s Psalm Listen 2. The Sweetest Curse 3. Jake Leg 4. Steel That Sleeps the Eye 5. Swollen and Halo 6. Ogeechee Hymnal 7. A Horse Called Golgotha 8. O er Hell And Hide 9. War, Wisdom and Rhyme 10. Blackpowder Orchard 11. The Gnashing 12. Bullhead s Lament
Pitchfork - Baroness' second album isn't remotely "experimental," and you'd never mistake any of its 12 tracks for indie rock. Instead, the guitars mix furious power-prog melodicism with the gut-punch force of old fashioned Southern sludge, and the grot-lined vocals are anthemic rather than tortured into incomprehensibility, a pleasant reminder of the days when extreme metal bands managed to be catchy without sacrificing an ounce of essentialist brutality
Spin - "Melodic, fast and heavier-than-plutonium guitar riffs that would make Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi proud."
allmusic - "one of the best hard rock albums of 2009" (entire review)
Alternative Press - "Blue Record truly depicts a band at the peak of its powers."
Songs from "Blue Record"
A Horse Called Golgotha (this video sucks but the song rocks)
Jake Leg
Live Show Looks like it is going to rock balls.
Interesting Facts Lead singer/guitarist John Baizley designs all the album art work.
Post by rolltitans67t on Apr 11, 2010 9:44:04 GMT -5
thx. Dillinger was awesome last year. First time I had seen them.
I was really hoping we would have more participation in this...I like to use this forum to get up to speed on some bands I am not familiar enough with.
Post by rolltitans67t on Apr 11, 2010 9:56:52 GMT -5
Have not seen Baroness yet. Planning on going to see them and Mastodon in Memphis sometime in May. But from what I have seen it wont be as crazy as DEP. That was out of hand (in a good way)
