Baroness revealed they're working on the follow-up to their 2023 record Stone in a statement about playing the Prepare The Ground festival happening in Toronto, ON. Baroness noted they'll only be playing material from their Red and Blue records at the festival, and are using the performance as time away from working on a new record.
"Last month, for our annual Philly pre-holiday show, we performed our first two full length albums: Red and Blue," wrote Baroness in their statement. "It was a great experience, unearthing the deeper cuts from those records that had faded from our setlist and it offered a rare opportunity to play some of those songs for the first time ever outside the studio.
"After the overwhelming and positive response from the Philadelphia shows (and while we're busy writing our next record) we're excited to present Red and Blue in full, once again. Thanks to everyone at Prepare the Ground Festival for giving us the opportunity to share this special experience. See you there!"
Prepare The Ground 2025 will also feature performances from the reunited Kylesa, Yob ripping through Atma alongside some classics, and more! Get all the information about the festival right here. And if you're wondering why Baroness moved away from naming their albums after colors, Baroness frontman John Baizley explained in a 2019 interview with Consequence that the naming convention was always meant to end eventually.
"[The chromatic themed albums] were only ever meant to be a finite concept. [The theme] is sort of based on the traditional artist color wheel, which essentially has six colors in it; they are the three primaries, red, yellow, and blue, and the three secondary colors, which are green, orange, and purple. We [decided] to do the chromatic themed titles in 2007 when we just signed to Relapse Records. [The idea behind using colors as titles] was only ever a joke and was meant to conclude after we had done something with those six colors.
"When we started off, we were playing music in, for lack of a better term, in the world of heavy music … we were all heavily invested in the DIY scene and punk music, and the look there was really dark, and it still is and always will be. Initially the idea was, among other things, that we might provide some kind of alternative aesthetic to [a genre primarily represented in] black and white, and occasionally red. So it was kind of like we could stick out, be a turd in the punch bowl so to speak, just by being colorful; it seemed so out of fashion at the time to do that. … We thought it would be funny and kind of fun to sort of mess with that idea of being a heavy band that plays loud and intense music, but also be very colorful.
"I'm super psyched to get [all] the records in our hands because I think it's going to be an awesome moment for me to line up all our vinyl and all the album covers, one after the other, and see the conclusion of that joke."
