The New Baroness Single Likely To Piss Off Old Fans, Win Them Tons Of New Ones

Early this year, Baroness' record company sent out a tweet asking what impending 2012 release we were most interested in.  Many folks were (understandably) stoked for a new Pig Destroyer album; after all, it's been six years since the incredible grinders have graced us with their presence in recorded form.  However, many fans sided with Baroness, expressing excitement in the direction of the Georgian metallers who enjoyed a pseudo-breakthrough in 2009 with Blue Record.  That album saw a shift away from the band's more extreme tendencies, peppering its tracks with muscular melody.  It was a triumph of a record, one that probably should have reached more ears than it did.  That said, when asked by Relapse for an opinion, sometimes I give one, and responded thusly:

@RelapseRecordsLong time coming for Pig Destroyer, but I gotta give it to Baroness. Feels like they're about to blow up like Mastodon did.

— Shawn Williston (@shawnwilliston) January 7, 2012

Well, we're two months away from the release of Yellow & Green, and the first sample could very well turn me into Nostradamus:



Naturally, the 'net is teeming with bellyaching metalheads in this song's wake; cries of "It's not metal!" can be heard, just like every time any metal band ever has dared to display the slightest inkling of melodic songwriting.  It happens to almost every metal band ever at some point, and Baroness have tackled the empty criticism head-on with a track that doesn't apologize for being melodic, it revels in it.

Yellow & Green is a double album of impending awesomeness, and it hits July 17 on Relapse.