Savannah quartet Baroness are one of the most exciting bands around, delivering a soaring, sinuous mix of prog, sludge, pop rock, shoegaze and more that’s catchy and heady all at once. Add to this the fact that main man John Dyer Baizley is an amazing visual artist responsible the group’s whole aesthetic (as well as artwork for Metallica, Pig Destroyer and others), and that the band has a new lead guitarist, Gina Gleason, who once toured with Cirque du Soleil, and you have some serious badassery on your hands. Baroness are gearing up to drop their highly anticipated new album, Gold & Grey, and today they offered up the second single off the record, the soaring, hard-hitting “Seasons,” along with its trippy, behind-the-scenes music video. Check it out below.
“Our goal is, was, and will always be to write increasingly superior, more honest and compelling songs, and to develop a more unique and challenging sound,” Baizley has said of the new LP, which is due June 14th and available for pre-order now.. “I’m sure we have just finished our best, most adventurous album to date. We dug incredibly deep, challenged ourselves and recorded a record I’m positive we could never again replicate.”
In addition to the new song, Baroness also announced new tour dates in support of Gold & Grey. Tickets are set to go on-sale Friday April 12th, at 10 a.m. local time.
Gold & Grey tour:
July 11 Lancaster, PA The Chameleon
July 12 Poughkeepsie, NY The Chance
July 13 Huntington, NY The Paramount
July 14 Hartford, CT Webster Theatre
July 16 Buffalo, NY Town Ballroom
July 17 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Smalls Theatre
July 19 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
July 20 Detroit, MI The Majestic
July 21 Indianapolis, IN Deluxe at Old National Centre
July 23 Palentine, IL Durty Nellie’s
July 24 Des Moines, IA Wooly’s
July 26 Omaha, NE The Waiting Room
July 27 Lawrence, KS The Granada
July 28 St. Louis MO The Ready Room
July 30 Nashville, TN Cannery Ballroom
July 31 Birmingham, AL Saturn
August 4 Baton Rouge, LA The Varsity Theatre
August 5 Atlanta, GA Buckhead Theatre
August 6 Tampa, FL The Orpheum
August 7 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Culture Room
August 9 Orlando, FL Plaza Live
August 10 Jacksonville, FL 1904 Music Hall
August 11 Charleston, SC The Music Farm
August 13 Charlotte, NC The Underground
August 14 Asheville, NC The Orange Peel
August 16 Richmond, VA The National
August 17 Baltimore, MD Baltimore Sound Stage
