BARONESS 'Purple' (2015)

Baroness 'Purple' (2015)

I liked all of their previous releases. Heavy rock, crushing bass with somewhat tuneful vocals. These seem more like 'songs' than the previous ones I'd heard. I've been spinning this album almost non stop for the past 3 days. The Brian May guitar influence is coming across big time at this point. They have the guitar sound of his solos mimicked. Placed in the right spots to create some more 'anthemic' sounding songs. 'Shock Me' is my pick hit of this album and I'm pretty sure they planned it that way. Mature sounding. Had they released this in Jan of 2016 instead of late 2015, I'm making a call that it would have been a contended for one of 2016's best.