NEWS
2019/12/26
Existence is a million fleeting moments. Within them, there are ecstatic highs, miserable lows, long stretches of monotony and unexpected swerves in the road. For better or worse, life goes on. Few bands have captured the colourful turbulence of human experience with half as much vibrancy as Baroness. Over the space of three EPs, four albums and 15 years few bands have evolved (or endured) as much. With fifth opus Gold & Grey, however, it was time to deliver a definitive, overarching statement and to draw a line under what had come before. Like it or not, those fateful few minutes just before 11:30am on August 15, 2012 – when their tour bus plummeted off a viaduct in Monkton Combe, near Bath – have come to define the band. It’s through grit, determination and sheer heroism th...
