Baroness revealed they’re engaged on the follow-up to their 2023 document Stone in an announcement about enjoying the Put together The Floor pageant taking place in Toronto, ON. Baroness famous they will solely be enjoying materials from their Crimson and Blue information on the pageant, and are utilizing the efficiency as time away from engaged on a brand new document.
“Final month, for our annual Philly pre-holiday present, we carried out our first two full size albums: Crimson and Blue,” wrote Baroness of their assertion. “It was an incredible expertise, unearthing the deeper cuts from these information that had light 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 constructive response from the Philadelphia exhibits (and whereas we’re busy writing our subsequent document) we’re excited to current Crimson and Blue in full, as soon as once more. Due to 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 characteristic performances from the reunited Kylesa, Yob ripping via Atma alongside some classics, and extra! Get all of the details about the pageant proper right here. And for those who’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 finally.
“[The chromatic themed albums] had 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, purple, yellow, and blue, and the three secondary colours, that are inexperienced, orange, and purple. We [decided] to do the chromatic themed titles in 2007 once 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 achieved one thing with these six colours.
“Once we began off, we had been enjoying music in, for lack of a greater time period, on the earth of heavy music … we had 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 will probably be. Initially the concept was, amongst different issues, that we would present some form of different aesthetic to [a genre primarily represented in] black and white, and infrequently purple. So it was form of like we may stick out, be a turd within the punch bowl so to talk, simply by being colourful; it appeared so out of trend on the time to do this. … We thought it might be humorous and form 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 information in our fingers as a result of I feel it’ll 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.”
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