BARONESS — Red Album (review)

BARONESS — Red Album album cover Album · 2007 · Sludge Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
Kingcrimsonprog
Baroness are an exciting sludge, stoner and prog influenced metal band from Virginia USA who play a straightforward and enjoyable version of music of which Mastodon, Kylessa, High On Fire and even Isis and Neurosis share similarities, although all on vastly varying ends of the spectrum, some largely in guitar style and tone and some on only the mildest surface similarities. If you are a fan of any of those bands or just that general area of the genre, then check out Baroness, it won’t sound like another album from one of the aforementioned bands but it is very likely the type music that you’d enjoy.

Red Album is their debut full length studio album, released in 2007 and consisting of roughly an hour’s worth of material at a mix of tempos, styles and degrees of heaviness. Highlights include the absolutely fantastic ‘Teeth Of A Cogwheel,’ which everyone curious about the band should try out, as well as the album opener ‘Rays On Pinnion,’ the single ‘Wanderlust,’ and the slow album closing instrumental ‘Grad.’

The album is produced well and the songwriting is pretty solid throughout. From almost every angle you look at it, Red Album is just a straight up excellent record, although perhaps they are missing some indefinable dynamic factor that would elevate it to classic status.

Overall; Red Album is a very good and well written album, enjoyable to listen to and that ticks a lot of the right boxes. They aren’t the most progressive prog band, the sludgiest sludge band or the most metal metal band out there, and fans expecting one extreme or another may be disapointed, however Baroness do provide a fine mixture of the styles well, with an interesting and enjoyable set of songs that you should give a fair chance to if you like this type of music.
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