Baroness revealed they’re engaged on the follow-up to their 2023 file Stone in an announcement about taking part in the Put together The Floor competition occurring in Toronto, ON. Baroness famous they’re going to solely be taking part in materials from their Crimson and Blue information on the competition, and are utilizing the efficiency as time away from engaged on a brand new file.
“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 ideal 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 optimistic response from the Philadelphia reveals (and whereas we’re busy writing our subsequent file) we’re excited to current Crimson and Blue in full, as soon as once more. Due to everybody at Put together the Floor Pageant for giving us the chance to share this particular expertise. See you there!”
Put together The Floor 2025 will even function performances from the reunited Kylesa, Yob ripping via Atma alongside some classics, and extra! Get all of the information about the festival right here. And in the event you’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 based mostly on the standard 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 Data. [The idea behind using colors as titles] was solely ever a joke and was meant to conclude after we had executed one thing with these six colours.
“Once we began off, we had been taking part in 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 might be. Initially the thought was, amongst different issues, that we’d present some type of various aesthetic to [a genre primarily represented in] black and white, and infrequently crimson. So it was type 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 vogue on the time to do this. … We thought it could be humorous and type of enjoyable to type of mess with that concept of being a heavy band that performs loud and intense music, but in addition be very colourful.
“I am tremendous psyched to get [all] the information in our fingers as a result of I feel it may 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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