The Batlord

I started losing interest in Baroness with the Blue Album. Red had a cool mix of sludge, classic rock, and post-metal that I'd never heard before (though it isn't aging as well with me as I'd like) but after that they dropped a lot of the more meandering instrumental things that made them interesting, and just turned into a lightweight sludge/alt metal band with ever-decreasing returns.

I listened to a bit of Purple, but wasn't really blown away. Will give it more of a shot later, but Yellow and Green went largely ignored by me for much the same reason I'm not entirely feeling their newest. I feel like they're coming dangerously close to post-grunge territory. It also doesn't help that John Dyer Baizely's vocals were always the weak link in the band, and now that their music is becoming more and more vocal-centric he's just bringing the band down more and more.

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