Red Album - Baroness

After releasing several EP's, Baroness released their debut album in 2007 and it immediately won over numerous critics with the magazine Revolver even going as far as claiming it was the best album of 2007. While, I wouldn't go that far - it is certainly a good album and a little bit different. Baroness hail from Savannah in Georgia and like so many of their fellow contemporaries from that area, tend to play sludge metal - unlike the majority of bands who like to keep the traditional deep south sludge metal sound throughout, these guys mix it up with haunted and sometimes ethnic sounding progressive music - which is usually simplistic yet highly effective. ...  Read the complete review

Music really does seem to move in cycles - ten years ago the British indie sector was where you went for smart and original music, with intelligent and exciting releases from Radiohead, Mansun, Manic Street Preachers, Gomez and a myriad of other great groups with their own unique sounds and styles. On the other side of the pond, the ugly, aggressive and largely brainless forces of nu-metal were gathering strength. Shot to fame on the back of a terrible novelty cover of a George Michael song, Limp Bizkit led the rap-rock revolution, which enabled Korn, Puddle of Mudd, Papa Roach and a whole host of other bands too terrible to recall to storm the charts. In ...  Read the complete review