Metal Riot

Baroness remain super skilled at creating a certain escapism that nonetheless makes you feel all your aches, pains and hard won victories. There is emotional resonance in their material that far and away rings more bells than, say, blood gargling black metal under a moldy rock.

“Shock Me” from Purple now has a fitting video, directed by Don Tyler and John Baizley with art direction by Karen Jerzyk. It’s a lot more interesting than the live studio “Chlorine & Wine” video, which is such a powerful tune that could’ve benefited from the aesthetic play and colorful pseudo-expressionism that sprouts wonderful seeds in this new clip effectively.

Not to mention, even by high Baroness standards this tune has not only a memorable chorus but a serious burner of a guitar solo.

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Baroness are streaming hotly awaited album Purple in full. The record is a bit heavier than Yellow and Green were but retain a lot of the cool dynamics that made those records an evolution. While Blue Record is still my favorite of their colorful career, this album is brilliant and has some seriously great tunes like sludgy and precision drumming opener “Morningstar” (sludgier than most recent Mastodon), the proggy “Kerosene”, hooky “Shock Me” and the sing a long/bad ass “Chlorine & Wine”. They have more than earned their staying power. One of the best bands in the rock world.

“While we realize the accident is obviously of interest, we have gone over that particular story’s details at length over the past few years,” Baizley says. “We feel that this album not only addresses but puts a punctuation mark on that story. Baroness existed before the accident and will continue to exist, and we’d rather talk about what we’ve created with Purple than let one side-story overtake or define who we are as a band.”

“In spite of the Winter there’s ways to keep warm…”

via Baroness:

Our new album ‘Purple’ is out December 18
Deluxe – http://smarturl.it/dpurple
iTunes – http://smarturl.it/ipurple
Amazon – http://smarturl.it/apurple

If “Chlorine & Wine” doesn’t appeal to you on some level then you’ve never gotten this band. \m/ #awestruck #sorad

Unholy Passion, Batman!!!

Pete from Baroness is the “Special Guest Guitarist” in Samhain.

From Facebook:

We’re incredibly excited to finally start talking about this. Pete might be the biggest Danzig/Misfits/Samhain fan i know, and he’ll be playing a series of Samhain-headlining shows this fall, the first full Samhain shows since 1985. I think every musician secretly dreams of joining their favorite band onstage but it never seems to actually happen. We’re all really excited for Pete.

Baroness have released a live video for their bellowed yet catchy as all get out Yellow & Green track “March To The Sea” (not a Pelican cover). The video is live and taken from their sold out return show with Tombs and Pallbearer at Union Transfer in PA. This was the band’s first time electric on stage after their UK bus crash and was a night to remember. I was there and I believe they opened with “Bullhead’s Psalm” and that this song was second or third, but they have comped it with footage of the band taking the stage to chants of “Welcome Back”. Click Here for a recent review of that show I wrote.

This is a passionate video and a glimpse of what it felt like to be there that night.

Click Here to see the video!