Baroness

About Baroness

Baroness formed in Savannah, GA in 2003, a home-base where they formed their creative ideology, booked their own shows, hand-printed their merchandise, & began a relentless touring regimen, with a DIY/punk-ethic that they had shared since adolescence. In 2007, they released their critically acclaimed debut, the sludgy, guitar-banging The Red Album, which Revolver magazine awarded "Album of the Year". They followed it up with the proggier, heavier Blue Record, extreme-metal magazine Decibel’s "Album of the Year." On 2012’s double-album Yellow & Green the band began to really open up, exploring a much broader variety of songs with more melodic vocals and alt-rock arrangements, earning a Top 30 chart debut in the US and Spin magazine’s "Metal Album of the Year." In 2015 the band formed their own label, Abraxan Hymns, and released Purple, which Rolling Stone proclaimed “…a ferociously cathartic and brilliantly crafted blast of progressive metal.” In 2019, the Grammy-nominated band returned with ambitious album, Gold & Grey, which swirls triumphantly past genre barriers with anthemic alt-metal hooks ricocheting between twists of prog and jazz, swirls of space-rock and noise, and pulses of trip-hop and 20th Century minimalism. 2023’s sixth studio album STONE streamlines the momentous multi-genre vocabulary of its predecessor, refocusing for efficiency and rethought as a consequence of stability. Lead singer John Baizley comments, “STONE is a lot more alive, more direct.”