FRET12 SESSIONS
Baroness
– Live Performance
Formed in Savannah’s heavy scene of the early 2000s, Baroness blend sludge, psych, and prog with soaring vocals and striking visuals by founder John Baizley.
Broadcasting from our shop at The Salt Shed, FRET12 Sessions invites musicians of all genres and styles to come in, perform, and share their work with the world.
FRET12 SESSIONS
Baroness
– Live Performance
Savannah-based heavy metal outfit Baroness swung by the FRET12 Shop at the Salt Shed and showed off their unique, extreme brand of hardcore rock.
Broadcasting from our shop at The Salt Shed, FRET12 Sessions invites musicians of all genres and styles to come in, perform, and share their work with the world.
F12-SESSION 015 // BARONESS
Rising from the fertile heavy music scene of early 2000’s Savannah, GA. Baroness established themselves as seekers, swiftly moving beyond raw aggression with an expansive sonic palette drawing from psych, progressive metal, and sludge. Their sonic diversity is held in balance by captivating melodies, and vocals that soar and scream in equal measure. Their distinct and consistent visual presentation comes courtesy of guitarist, singer, and founder John Bailzey, whose paintings evoke and reflect the emotion and complexity of each release.
We were lucky enough to catch Baroness during a day off from their Red & Blue tour where they performed their legendary first two albums (Red and Blue) in their entirety. For our session they crushed two tracks from their most recent album, Stone, followed that with incredible instrumental tracks off Red and Blue respectively.
After the session they sat down to talk about this tours’ unique challenge of performing "studio tracks" that weren’t conceived for a live setting, and the musical debates that come with jamming songs into existence. Then they ran us through their road-tested gear featuring Fender and Rickenbacker guitars, Fender Princeton Reverb and Roland JC120 Lobo Edition amps, and huge collection of pedals from MXR, Electro-Harmonix, Crowther Audio, and much more.
"The number one thing is, the more you play music with your band thh greater the strength of the covalent bonds between each member. The more we play together, the more we share musical ideas, the less we have to verbalize it, or share files, or share ideas remotely, the better the music becomes."
- John Bailzey
"The number one thing is, the more you play music with your band thh greater the strength of the covalent bonds between each member. The more we play together, the more we share musical ideas, the less we have to verbalize it, or share files, or share ideas remotely, the better the music becomes."
- John Bailzey
PLUMES BY EARTHQUAKER DEVICES
This pedal is a unique, all-analog approach to a classic tube-like overdrive circuit offering 3 different clipping voices, loads of headroom and almost three-dimensional clarity that will push your amp over the edge. The reimagined tone control is finely tuned to sculpt low end, clear top end, and focus midrange with blooming sustain.
"We’re really good at musical debates. We each present our case, we all absorb and judge, and then we move on. That is important in the studio, to make a case without getting into a fight."
- Sebastian Thompson
"We’re really good at musical debates. We each present our case, we all absorb and judge, and then we move on. That is important in the studio, to make a case without getting into a fight."
- Sebastian Thompson
CASCADING CRESCENT – PELICAN
You might call Pelican pioneers of instrumental post-metal if that wasn’t so limiting. Their scope and ambition have always outstripped easy classification. On Cascading Crescent—the lead single from their first album in six years, Flickering Resonance—the interplay of soaring riffs and intricate melodic arrangements defy expectations while achieving a kind of blissful transcendence.
