BARONESS RED & BLUE TOUR
Baroness recently surprised Philadelphia-area fans with two performances of the Red Album and Blue Record in their entirety, with both shows sold-out within minutes. The band now brings “The Red & Blue Tour” to The Waiting Room on May 24th. The trek sees the GRAMMY-nominated Baroness revisiting the monumental tracks that established them as one of the most innovative bands of their generation. From the psychedelic-laden “Isak” to the ethereal melodies of “The Sweetest Curse,” the special evenings with the Savannah-born outfit promise to be one of the most captivating tours of the year. The tour will feature a variety of exclusive tour-only vinyl with newly crafted John Baizley artwork, as well as a selection of Red and Blue themed merchandise. “In December, for our annual Philly pre-holiday show, we performed our first two full length albums: Red and Blue,” John Baizley shares. “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. While I’ve personally never been overly interested in the pure nostalgia of past records, we’ve always found it illuminating to bridge the gap between present and past Baroness by learning and updating/rearranging our earliest material. After the overwhelming and positive response from the Philadelphia shows (and while we’re busy writing our next record) we’re looking forward to taking Red and Blue on the road and sharing the experience with old and new friends alike.” The Red Album (2007) and Blue Record (2009) laid the foundation for what was to come over Baroness’ 20-year-plus career. These two albums introduced the band’s distinctive style, combining crushing heaviness with melodic intricacy, and paved the way for the ambitious scope of Yellow & Green, the GRAMMY-nominated Purple, the grandeur of Gold & Grey, and the expansive creativity of STONE. About Baroness Founded in 2003, Baroness is John Baizley (vocals/guitar), Gina Gleason (guitar), Nick Jost (bass) and Sebastian Thomson (drums). The Philadelphia-meets-Brooklyn foursome have released six full-length albums: STONE (2023), Gold & Grey (2019), Purple (2015), Yellow & Green (2012), Blue Record (2009), and the Red Album (2007). Throughout their career, they’ve garnered widespread acclaim, with the band’s albums regularly featured on year-end best of lists, and 2017 seeing their first GRAMMY® nomination. On their most recent album, STONE, Pitchfork said they “remain one of the most remarkable and capable bands at the intersection of heavy metal, hard rock, and psychedelia.” Brooklyn Vegan described the 10-song collection as “Baroness at their most alive and direct,” while Revolver added: “STONE… is a wild ride, full of triumphant sludge metal, and soaring, shoegazing progressive rock.”
Snowball Showdown 2025
The battle set mayhem lives on, this time in Omaha, NE at the Waiting Room Lounge, Friday January 31st!! We have 4 matchups that will pit similar bands against each other where they will go head-to-head on stage for battle set supremacy!!! Traffic Death VS. Disrepair (crust punk/hardcore battle set) https://trafficdeath.bandcamp.com/ vs. https://disrepairpunk.bandcamp.com/ MAN VS. Prolapse (noise/grindcore battle set) https://mantheband.bandcamp.com/ vs https://prolapse402.bandcamp.com/ Blowing Chunks VS. the Shidiots (punk rock battle set) https://www.youtube.com/@blowingchunksband vs https://theshidiots.bandcamp.com/ Ex-Nihilo VS. Jiblets (metal/metalcore battle set) https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61566541991592 vs https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Ekmgclavbdyhu1M5fPSx7
Metal Pajama Party
Aborted
Since their unholy inception in 1995, death metal miscreants ABORTED have been one of the pioneers of the genre and have annihilated friend and foe with relentless intensity and an uncompromising mix of flawless technicality and raw emotion. Having carved a niche for themselves in the extreme metal realm, the multi-national combo around Svende Caluwé initially gained notoriety by offering up ruthlessly fast death-grind with groovy breakdowns on their early works (‘The Purity of Perversion’, ‘Goremageddon: The Saw And The Carnage Done’). By meticulously crafting and introducing more technical elements on more recent releases such as “TerrorVision”, “Retrogore” and “Mania Cult”, ABORTED has consistently sharpened their lethal blend of furious death metal. Thereby firmly cementing their status as one of the most menacing and envelope-pushing metal acts of the 21st century.
BLOOD INCANTATION
with Midwife. All ages. 7pm Doors/8pm Show Blood Incantation’s Absolute Elsewhere is unlike anything you’ve ever heard before. Yes, that’s an audacious, possibly hyperbolic claim, but few can claim a sonic watershed as readily as this Denver, Colorado quartet. Hovering at nearly 45 minutes, their longest recording thus far, the two sprawling-yetexacting compositions that make up this album are as confounding as they are engaging. It’s an architecture of music at odds with itself: an acceleration through a Kubrickian stargate into a realm of aural ideas in harmonious opposition, uniting unlikely binaries of aural heavens and hells. For inspiration, the group looked to the mid-70’s progressive rock collective, Absolute Elsewhere (best known as a celestial stopover for King Crimson drummer, Bill Bruford) as the album’s namesake. For the uninitiated, Absolute Elsewhere’s landmark 1976 album, In Search of Ancient Gods, was constructed as a musical accompaniment to the works of Chariots of the Gods author, Erich Von Daniken, and his theories of non-terrestrial humanoid prompts towards mankind’s evolution. The subject matter of which should serve as no surprise to anyone familiar with Blood Incantation’s prior LPs and cosmically philosophical leanings. But make no mistake, the our musicians working under the BI banner for the past decade – guitarist and vocalist Paul Riedl, drummer Isaac Faulk, guitarist Morris Kolontyrsky and bassist Jeff Barrett – have successfully left the microgravity of genre behind and are re-writing the Rosetta Stone of extreme music with a new language entirely.
Viscerous
Viscerous: Eviscerate CD Release Show with Inkognita, Ungoliant, and Molten
High Vis
Though the band were all alumni of some of the UK hardcore scene’s most celebrated groups, High Vis’s 2019 debut, No Sense No Feeling, was a record that opened its viewfinder beyond the parameters of any genre or scene. Sure, the intensity and passion of hardcore were stoking the fires, but in its intense post-punk […]
Paleface Swiss
Faster Pussycat
with Evil Shadows and My Juliet
WHOKILLEDXIX and PRANAV.WAV
with NEPTVNE, ONI INC. , VITAMJN PISS BABY, BUMPADUMP, and a FROM THIS DAY FORWARD DJ SET