Forgot these guys were a thing.

fuck yes

although why not another colour album title

Fuckin bozo’s couldn’t think of any more colours lul

The production on this is a step up from whatever was going on with that last album but still not great. I kind of sounds like the last Mastodon record which also felt a bit held back by the production.

Also damn that’s gotta be a contender for baizleys worst album art ever

Seems like an improvement over the last one. We'll see.

Egregiously generic track, these guys are really committed to going full soft cock aren’t they

Album is called "Stone?" Did they run out of colors or something?

Need to give this a couple more listens. Nothing stands out in particular other than the solo. This is a band that is more known for epic or trippy vocal melodies and riffs, not solos, and this song kind of flips that around. Then again, it is a single.

Anyways, I'm stoked, Baroness rarely misses.

Sounds crisp! Very excited.

Also, it was mentioned by the band around the release of "Gold & Grey" that it was going to be the last album in the color line of albums. Hence the different name.

"Also damn that’s gotta be a contender for baizleys worst album art ever"

He's a fantastic, Art nouveau-inspired visual artist, but in some respects, you may have a point here.

In order to deliberately move away from the single/two colour theme (vaguely ironic on a grey-suggesting album called 'Stone'), he's thrown all the colours at it, when the restricted pallette was usually an integral part of what made them so good.

I generally love his art don’t get me wrong

Really love the bass work here and the drums are giving a LOT of Mastodon which is cool, not a type of busyness I normally associate with Baroness. Also like the album art a lot though admittedly less than most other Baizelys

At this point literally all my expectations for these guys are in relation to their lat two like I think we all need to accept that this is literally 75% not the same band that made red and blue. Tentatively hyped for that self-production, Dave Fridmann can now go back to not pretending he knows how to produce hard rock

oh nice
tbh i totally forgot that gold and grey existed

They would be nice to actually enjoy a Baroness album again. I'll hold out some hope this can happen

Listening to the new track again and damn that solo is nutty. Current lineup is probably my favorite iteration of this band. Hope to see em live for this tour

I am legitimately sad this won't carry a colour in its name as per usual. I know it's silly but I am less hyped now
Also, it is just me or Baroness totally went on a slow descent into irrelevance starting with yellow & Green? Like i remember early 2010s they were the talk of the town and seemed destined to great things but nothing really came of it. That whole Mastodon-inspired genre lost momentum though

I must say, I love everything that Gina has brought to the table in her time with Baroness. Her vocal harmonies with Baizley are always spot on and she can shred too. Really altered their sound for the better, in my opinion.

"I must say, I love everything that Gina has brought to the table in her time with Baroness. Her vocal harmonies with Baizley are always spot on and she can shred too. Really altered their sound for the better, in my opinion."

100% agree.

Also Purple is best Baroness, Red & Blue overrated imo although still great.

yellow + green worst baroness agreed

holy s*** nevermind my last comment lol they sold at least 4000 records already! That's great!

i like the latest one the most but blue and red are tight too

agreed pika

"yellow + green worst baroness agreed"

It's okay, we're all wrong about something at one point or another

Agreed on yellowgreen as well, couple fun songs on there tho.

"In order to deliberately move away from the single/two colour theme (vaguely ironic on a grey-suggesting album called 'Stone'), he's thrown all the colours at it, when the restricted pallette was usually an integral part of what made them so good."

i am trying to imagine a black&white + grey with a bit of silver and gold for this and wow that would have been cool.
Agree that this is one of his least impressive cover arts.

Do people really not like Gold & Grey? I fucking love that album

And the production on this is much better too.

"Do people really not like Gold & Grey? I fucking love that album"

I just relistened to it recently, and I think it aged better than I expected it would. It's still a jam in spite of the subpar mixing

“It's okay, we're all wrong about something at one point or another”

Happy for your moment of self awareness

Is gud.
Yelow best barones

"Happy for your moment of self awareness"

Literally a "no u" lol. Nice

y + g is the buttprog moment of their career so I can see why the dickbearded dweeb progheads would prefer it tbh

Lol calm down buddy

"dickbearded"

I literally pictured a dude with a beard made of dicks...

A horrifying, yet haunting mental image.

Apparently comes through liking 'Yellow and Green' above the rest. Glad it's not quite my favourite of theirs, then.

Don't be mad 'cause you can't grow a dickbeard

^ Hey, don't give up on me yet... just have to force Y&G into my Baroness #1 spot and a long, handsome, flowing beard of dicks will be mine!

This one's for you, dickbeard

https://shop.yourbaroness.com/products/stone-signed-test-pressing

"I literally pictured a dude with a beard made of dicks..."

You think he'd look like Davey Jones from "Pirates of the Carribean"?


"https://shop.yourbaroness.com/products/stone-signed-test-pressing"

My dickbeard is quivering with delight

Quivering Dickbeard good band name

Yahhp, I'm having a weird-ass boner right now, considering its location.

"Quivering Dickbeard good band name"

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Yellow and Green slander will not stand. Yes, Red and Blue are best, but I'm kinda fine with the band basically advertising psychedelic effects pedals. Not that I've listened to this yet but ayy yes also go Gina

song b cool

“Literally a "no u" lol. Nice”

Quite literally the most amount of effort a cliched reptile brain “it’s ok to be wrong” post deserves

Green = pedal showcase
Yellow = goat

yellow + green in a nutshell

the EPs have so few votes! 235! wild

was really holding out for the 'hot pink' album

"Quite literally the most amount of effort a cliched reptile brain “it’s ok to be wrong” post deserves"

Whatever quivers your dickbeard, I guess

'was really holding out for the 'hot pink' album'

same

It's never too late.
Was pretty surprised to see them shake up the formula for this one but I'm here for it.

Having finished the song a couple times now I just don't know about that solo's mixing/production. Weird choice to have it sound like just an amp in an untreated room whereas the rest of the instruments sound like more typical modern production.

I kind of like it it's all like screeeeaaaaaaw

(literally went to school for music so I'm able to discuss technical shit like this pls try to keep up)

will agree with that @penny, that was very in-the-face. I did particularly like the outro

I am absolutely perplexed by the decision to have increasingly well done songs and melodies masked by increasingly dogshit production

idk this one is a pretty big step up from G&G and honestly even Purple, I did a full run after listening to the new one a couple times and it was immediately jarringly noticeable.

Just found out Baroness actually have a bass player listening to this new one, did you guys know this????

you know guitar music is shit by how poorly they treat bass, the most pivotal component of all good music ever

guitar music is shit because they would never help me set up my kit when we had five minutes to do it after the band before us fucking assholes

truly the scum of the earth

"you know guitar music is shit by how poorly they treat bass, the most pivotal component of all good music ever"

Smartest thing anybody ever goddamn said.

I really enjoyed Gold and Grey despite the mixing. Looking forward to this

I could make like a 10 song album out of G&G that I really enjoy but the production will still make my nipples soft.

It's nice to finally hear a new Baroness song that doesn't sound like absolute ass.

hm...not bad

you've never painted anything if you don't think "Stone" is a colour.

Really enjoying the drums on this

It’s called grey and they already did it, unless they want to make their way backwards and do flavours of each of the umbrella colours and hit us with lavender or chartreuse

gay sex next please

I mean the logical next step after these morons prematurely ran out of colours would have been to make “big gay rainbow” which I would have insta-5’d and genuinely pretended to like but alas

baroness fire red and leaf green

I find this band to be very generic every time I have an interest in listening to them. Its like everything else about them is top tier (album art etc) and then the music hits and its just one step above radio butt rock with a little more oomph.

^ My thoughts about every damn time I check in on their newer stuff. Genuinely feel like I'm missing out on sth with their songwriting and performance being alright and their production not pulling me into this sound at all.

I wonder if there is any passion behind their glow-down or if it’s just to be more commercially appealing.

"My thoughts about every damn time I check in on their newer stuff. Genuinely feel like I'm missing out on sth with their songwriting and performance being alright and their production not pulling me into this sound at all."

If it helps, I usually prefer their albums to their singles, TBH. The singles tend to work better in an album context, IMO.

There are definite barriers to entry (latter-day bullshit mixing/production choices, John's not-too-inviting yell-bellow, the "one step above radio butt-rock" of the majority of their lead singles), but overall, it just seems to come together in something good, I find.

they have great music i feel

"I wonder if there is any passion behind their glow-down or if it’s just to be more commercially appealing."

They always strike me as passionate. Their early stuff was very Mastodon and ISIS influenced... despite sounding more radio-friendly, I think it's a creative-led evolution, as it'd be weird to doing that after nearly two decades (plus their entire personnel other than John is different).

Middle-age rocker evolution.

I meant everything after red and blue which I think are very inspired

This band should really release an official live greatest hits album. That would be stellar

people calling this a passionless glow down mainstream appeal buttrock band really need to fucking touch grass and listen to some actual radio buttrock just to ground themselves.

i mean i listened to new qotsa immediately before listening to this so

In interviews and stuff they've seemed pretty hyped for every new album they've had, I'm sure there's an element of the members being grown ass adults with families to feed, and maybe straying less from the beaten path as a result

but again I think it's mostly just down to lineup changes. If the extended jams and post-rock influence left with Summer Welch and Brian Blickle, doesn't it stand to reason that it was mostly them contributing those things?

word i actually haven't paid attention to the member legacy of the band at all and lineup changes are news to me so yeah that checks out for sure

who knew john was such a basic bitch

i was thinking the other day about the time i saw them live when i was a teenager and we were on acid and ran into the drummer outside and had convinced ourselves that their entire band was also on acid and asked the drummer how the acid was and he was like "groovy man hell yeah" or something to that extent and then later we ran into the rest of the band and were like "hows the acid" and they got super weird and were like "i have no idea what ur talking about man" and like slinked away and for years we all thought we just tripped them out and they didnt want anyone to know they were all on acid but im pretty sure in hindsight that they were probably just not on acid and the drummer was just fucking with us because we were on acid

Not feeling this song too much but here's hoping the album still slaps. March to the Sea is an all-time song for the genre to me.