"STONE" CD by Baroness

Comes in a digisleeve with booklet.

The Grammy-nominated heavy Rock band Baroness is back with their new Album STONE. The Philadelphia quartet, consisting of John Baizley (guitar/vocals/illustration), Gina Gleason (guitar), Nick Jost (bass), and Sebastian Thomson (drums), has streamlined the massive multigenre vocabulary of their critically acclaimed predecessor Gold & Grey (2019, DE#14) on their sixth Album 'STONE'. This is still very much Baroness - just newly focused to be more efficient and thoughtfully reimagined as a result of stability. The standout tracks from STONE, 'Last Word', 'Beneath the Rose', 'Shine', and 'Anodyne', reflect thoughtfully, grooving, and effortlessly breaking the tumult.

While writing STONE, Baroness recorded and mixed the Album. After the group had finished recording drums, guitars, and bass, they brought everything back to Baizley's basement - where parts of Gold & Grey were also recorded - to record vocals and add other details. STONE was then handed off for final mixing and polishing to Grammy-nominated mixmaster Joe Barresi (Kyuss, Alice In Chains) and Grammy-winning mastering guru Bob Ludwig (Led Zeppelin, Nirvana) at Gateway Mastering Studios.

Baroness received a Grammy Award nomination for the song 'Shock Me' (from the 2015 Album Purple) in the category of 'Best Metal Performance.' Purple was praised worldwide: Pitchfork wrote that it contained 'some of the biggest and strongest songs Baroness has ever written', and Mojo proclaimed that 'Baroness delivered their masterpiece.' The Album received numerous awards at the end of the year, including 'Shock Me' ranking at #10 on Entertainment Weekly's Top 40 songs of 2015, #6 on Pitchfork's best metal Albums of 2015, and #7 on Rolling Stone's 20 best metal Albums of 2015. The band's catalog of studio Albums includes Gold & Grey (2019), Purple (2015), Yellow & Green (2012), Blue Record (2009), and Red Album (2007).