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Saw em live last night at First Ave. and they were fucking amazing

In between songs they'd always get some ambient drone stuff going as transitions and then get to the awesome riffage. Tone was amazing from both guitarists and the bassist, looked like one guitarist was using a Budda and the other a Bad Cat through this sweet ass Emperor cab. Didn't get a look at the pedalboards but they sure do love using phasers.

They were on tour with Decapitated and Meshuggah. Decapitated was kind of meh, just solid death metal and their guitar tone just sounded like generic line6 metal presets. Meshuggah was pretty fucking dope as well but Baroness stole the show, amazing energy and enthusiasm and some great tone. Definitely getting a ticket when they return in the future

Baroness are the best. They blew everyone off the stage when I saw them last.

Oddly enough your impression of Decapitated is EXACTLY (word for word) what I said when I saw them a few years back.

Wes Mantooth wrote:. Didn't get a look at the pedalboards but they sure do love using phasers.

Baizely at least, I know used to use a Twosome and a Whetstone. Not sure if he still does, but it was one of the reasons I got into fuzz, interestingly enough (the other was seeing Boris' pedalboard and wondering what the big pedal with the blue crow was....). And I think I saw somewhere online that he confirmed the Crystal Dagger was used somewhere on the new record. That dude (those dudes?) is a fucking artisan.

So they got better at live shows? The few videos I saw weren't really that good.

Can't wait for the new Baroness double album.

i just got into the red album and really dig their stuff. ok, i have to get more and open the eyes for live shows around here.

alexa. wrote:So they got better at live shows? The few videos I saw weren't really that good.

They were great, only band there who actually looked like they were having a good time playing.



It very well could have been a Whetstone he was using, sounded very small stone-ish.

Just got tickets for this Saturday.

alexa. wrote:So they got better at live shows? The few videos I saw weren't really that good.

I have yet to see them live (missed them by like a day here.....) but in my opinion the vocals are mixed WAYYYYYYY too high in most of the videos I've seen, and it definitely made it feel like the music wasn't as good as on the recordings. It's probably my chief complaint about metal-ish shows, in general.

Ah, good point. I HATE the custom in my country that ALL bands with vocals must have vocals standing out really unnaturally. Fucked up a few stoner bands that way. So damn pissed about that!

eehhh, I dunno. Kinda wish the vocals weren't so, um, "nickleback-y".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZKPpeuHvJk&feature=youtu.be

Seems like a natural progression from Blue, which is probably why I'm not that into it. Red Album or GTFO.

Very disappointed in the new vocals. Too much kroeger.



This rapes though.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22xFxEwcZ2Q[/youtube]

Blue and Red are my equal favourites. I hope the rest of the new album ends up more like them.

+1

Fun Fact:
Baroness have used my old OC-2 for some recording.
Love Baroness so much. They've got some serious skills.