BARONESS Yellow & Green 2xCD 2012

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#721 BARONESS Yellow & Green 2xCD 2012

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Don't you just love when bands consistently blow your mind? To me, Baroness is one of those groups that continues to slam me into the ground. With Yellow and Green, Baroness have taken the prog elements and shoved them into the forefront of their sound. To many metalheads, this kind of move is akin to throwing a box of kittens onto an LA freeway. Others, myself included, feel that this is just a band caught up in the beauty of progression. While the band will always be remembered for their sludge roots, the group does not do away with the sludge entirely. Songs like Take My Bones Away and Psalms Alive contain driving riffs that also have melody and great dynamic shifts. Hardcore and general riff loving fans will embrace the sludgy tracks. However, that is just a small portion of a very big and delicious prog metal cake. Softer and much more melodic tracks like Twinkler, Green Theme and Collapse are the type of songs that make most metalheads dry heave. Tracks like these are what keep the album from straying too far in different directions. While Twinkler is very foreboding and sinister at times, Green Theme and If I Forget Thee, Lowcountry are much more uplifting than most of the songs on this progtastic behemoth. People that continue to bitch about how this album is too experimental to be metal are completely off in snarking about bands being more progressive in their advancements. Case in point, Savatage. I make this comparison because while folks had ZERO problem with Savatage adding pianos, violins and acoustic guitars to their style of progressive metal, people should not fear, but rather embrace the use of odd instrumentation in new Baroness music. John Baizley continues to excel as a frontman of epic proportions. Pete Adams is an absolute juggernaut on the six strings and Matt Maggioni and Allen Blickle keep the groove intact. Sadly, this would be Blickle's final album before leaving the group after 10 years behind the kit. Baizley's vocals stay mostly clean, but fans of old will enjoy the semi harshness on March to the Sea and The Line Between. To conclude, longtime fans should embrace this album as just another progression in the sound of an already amazing group. Baroness will, in my opinion, have a pretty hard time following this one up. For quite a while now, I believed that only the early EPs could stand toe-to-toe with the angelic Blue Record. But now, I believe that that album now has a contender, and it's name is Yellow and Green.