Baroness' New Single Delivers Metal Its Divorce Papers

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A little while back, we heard the first taste of Baroness' upcoming third (and fourth?) album Yellow & Green in the form of lead single Take My Bones Away.  Upon hearing it I surmised (correctly) that fans of their early, more metallic material, would be spitting venom at Baroness' decision to record a straightforward rock song.  The audacity!

If Take My Bones Away was the sound of a band defying closed-minded naysayers, then March To The Sea is the sound of a band planting a cold, muddy boot on the throats of closed-minded naysayers, pointing a pistol to their heads, and demanding that if they don't like change they should stay the fuck away, because what Baroness is doing cannot be confined by genre restrictions and unreasonable expectations.



And with that, cue the re-aggravated throng of dum-dums screaming "not metal", "I only like their first two EPs", "they sold out", "I never really liked these guys", and "they're more stupider than Mastodon".  That the chorus bears more than a passing resemblance to Bulletproof Heart by My Chemical Romance certainly won't help, but I tell myself they did that for trolling purposes.  Whatever the case, and whatever the rest of the album(s) sounds like, for this guy Yellow & Green has gone from highly anticipated to rabidly anticipated.  That's not just based on the strength of the two singles, but also on the sneaking suspicion that Baroness are truly on the edge of something amazing.

Yellow & Green arrives July 17 via Relapse.

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