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 Best in awhile Nov 01, 2009
This album is great from beginning to end. Rays on Pinion to Grad this album gets your attention and is never dull like most of the music out there today. I would recommend this album to anyone that likes a little different and out of the ordinary rock/metal music.
RED ALBUM WAS ALBUM OF THE MONTH on LOUDTRAX Oct 30, 2009
Baroness' first full length album and debut with Relapse Records is one of the true classic albums in recent history! The Savanah, Georgia boys' epic album is intense, powerful, progressive, heavy, melodic, mysterious. Red Album has all the elements to be marked as a must have for any rock fan.
John Baizley and his bandmates showcase their musicianship and songwriting skills on trax like "Wanderlust", "The Birthing", and "Isak". With hundreds of live shows under their belt, their sound is colossal and confident, something you would expect from a bands' 5th album. Baroness achieved this on their debut full length which is quite impressive.
They're currently on a North American tour, and working on their highly anticipated new album.
Listen to this album once, and you will appreciate it. Listen to it a few more times, and it will be part of you.
Baroness - Red Album Aug 25, 2009
This album is HEAVY, DENSE and PROFOUND, yet still has the light, airy and calming passages of its less "metal" prog/rock predecessors. I have only begun to listen to "metal" in the last year or so and was mainly a fan of older music and had given up (quite literally) on finding any REAL new music. I must say that coming from a place where Rush is my favorite band and Mastodon was the first metal group I really got into, Baroness is an almost terrible band to jump to....because every band discovered after them simply can't stack up. This album is timeless. The guitars are heavy (almost bludgeoning in sound) due in part to Baroness' use of C standard+Drop D tuning(!) [lowwwww]yet accessible due to their melody. Time signatures change much as they do in Rush songs (i.e. they suit the song and don't just sound like The Musical Olympics...I'm looking at you John Petrucci) and there are nice clean-toned sections as well (it takes about 2-3 minutes for Rays on Pinion to get heavy; Cockroach En Fleur is acoustic; Wailing Wintry Wind is a beautiful song with ridiculously clever arpeggios and harmonies). Between sweet sparkling clean tones, thundering drop-tuned riffs, dynamic guitar harmonies and rhythmic changes akin to Rush and Yes, this album starts and doesn't let up until the seemingly out-of-place country twang that is the 'Hidden Track' at the very end of the album (11 min. or so into the last track). Fans of prog, metal, and fundamentally good guitar music will listen to this front to back...no fast forwarding or track skipping necessary. Bands leading the way for a "new", more cerebral, less pretentious metal/prog scene include Mastodon, Baroness, Kylesa, Isis, High on Fire, Torche, Intronaut and the many more that have revived my faith in 21st century music.
Metal Aug 22, 2009
I don't normally review stuff but I had to post a rebuttal to the review that stated that this album isn't metal. Not metal? Were you expecting death metal? Black metal? Just because it isn't dripping with pentagrams doesn't mean it's not metal. This album is soooo metal. There are some super heavy riffs that are made even heavier with the few lighter moments.
So yeah, it's not Electric Wizard metal, but it's metal. And yes, it is very much like Mastodon, and their latest album is half prog and half metal so who gives a crap anyway, it's all good!
Pick up this CD if you dig Kylesa, Torche, Mastodon and maybe even Pelican. Good stuff!
Say NO to radio!
New Original Sound Jul 01, 2009
Yep, they started just like Mastodon (soundwise) and some other Sludge bands out there. A couple of records later Baroness stands on it's own ground and boy they ripp.
Great album from the beggining to the very last song, no fillers. Great melodies, twin lead guitar assaults and crushing riffs.
Can't hardly wait for their new record.
Great music indeed, you won't regret it, in fact, I think you NEED to listen to this one.
Enjoy.
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