Am I the only one who keeps realizing that there are a ton of great records from 2007 that I completely missed the boat on? Another one of these album is Red Album from Savannah, Georgia’s Baroness. They play progressive metal that sounds like it would fit somewhere in-between Mastodon and Isis. You know, a band that is adept and conjuring up slight atmospherics as well as Earth-shaking and mountain-moving grooves. There are gruff shouted vocals as well as huge instrumental breakdowns that showcase the band’s insane guitar pyrotechnics. Amazingly, with guitarists that are this good, I often found myself paying more attention to the equally stellar drumming.
Red Album may be heavy, but it isn’t dark or gloomy. It has a remarkable sense of sunny melodicism and beneath a stoner metal exterior is a heart filled with psychedelic and bluesy classic rock. The music of Baroness rages with physics-formula guitar leads that loop and build to thundering crescendos. Simply put; Red Album is awesome and out now on Relapse.
As a sidebar, I got the Guitar Hero video game for Christmas and since then, every time I listen to metal I find myself thinking, “That would be a great guitar hero song.” Does this happen to anyone else? Needless to say, most of The Red Album would make great guitar hero songs, but would be ridiculously difficult.
MP3 | Baroness – The Birthing Red Album
MP3 | Baroness – Wailing Wintry Wind Red Album
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yeah…i’d be a liar to say i didn’t have that thought whenever i listened to either metal songs with intricate guitar parts, or rock songs with especially fun riffs or solos in them. i’m a little bit addicted to that game, though.