BARONESS Is Working On A New Record

Baroness revealed they’re engaged on the follow-up to their 2023 report Stone in an announcement about taking part in the Put together The Floor competition taking place in Toronto, ON. Baroness famous they’re going to solely be taking part in materials from their Pink and Blue data on the competition, and are utilizing the efficiency as time away from engaged on a brand new report.

“Final month, for our annual Philly pre-holiday present, we carried out our first two full size albums: Pink and Blue,” wrote Baroness of their assertion. “It was a fantastic expertise, unearthing the deeper cuts from these data that had pale from our setlist and it supplied a uncommon alternative to play a few of these songs for the primary time ever exterior the studio.

“After the overwhelming and optimistic response from the Philadelphia exhibits (and whereas we’re busy writing our subsequent report) we’re excited to current Pink and Blue in full, as soon as once more. Because of everybody at Put together the Floor Competition for giving us the chance to share this particular expertise. See you there!”

Put together The Floor 2025 may even function performances from the reunited Kylesa, Yob ripping by way of Atma alongside some classics, and extra! Get all of the information about the festival right here. And if you happen to’re questioning why Baroness moved away from naming their albums after colours, Baroness frontman John Baizley defined in a 2019 interview with Consequence that the naming conference was all the time meant to finish ultimately.

“[The chromatic themed albums] have been solely ever meant to be a finite idea. [The theme] is type of primarily based on the normal artist colour wheel, which primarily has six colours in it; they’re the three primaries, crimson, yellow, and blue, and the three secondary colours, that are inexperienced, orange, and purple. We [decided] to do the chromatic themed titles in 2007 after we simply signed to Relapse Information. [The idea behind using colors as titles] was solely ever a joke and was meant to conclude after we had carried out one thing with these six colours.

“Once we began off, we have been taking part in music in, for lack of a greater time period, on this planet of heavy music … we have been all closely invested within the DIY scene and punk music, and the look there was actually darkish, and it nonetheless is and all the time shall be. Initially the concept was, amongst different issues, that we’d present some sort of different aesthetic to [a genre primarily represented in] black and white, and infrequently crimson. So it was sort of like we might stick out, be a turd within the punch bowl so to talk, simply by being colourful; it appeared so out of vogue on the time to try this. … We thought it could be humorous and sort of enjoyable to type of mess with that concept of being a heavy band that performs loud and intense music, but additionally be very colourful.

“I am tremendous psyched to get [all] the data in our arms as a result of I feel it is going to be an superior second for me to line up all our vinyl and all of the album covers, one after the opposite, and see the conclusion of that joke.”