Blog: Cannibal Cheerleader

When Baroness release the Red Album in 2007 they earned themselves a considerable amount of metal credibility, their crunching, screaming metal shocks segueing seamlessly into droney stoner anthems. With the Blue Record the band has taken this formula and injected a great deal of progressiveness, much in the same way Mastodon managed to achieve with Crack the Skye . Exploring the same dark, naturalistic tops of yesteryear but featuring increasingly bizarre and markedly different instrumentation, complete with searing whip-crack riffs and the utilization of additional vocalists, Baroness' sophomore LP features a natural expansion of growing [...]

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