Artist: BARONESS
Album: PURPLE VINYL (LP BLACK)

Release date: 2015
EAN/UPS: 0857223004267
Media type: LP

Baroness return with their first new music in three years, as the band releases their fourth album, Purple, on Dec. 18 via their recently formed label, Abraxan Hymns.

It is the first album to be released by the band following their involvement in the 2012 bus accident that left nine people injured; it is also the first album to feature new band members Nick Jost and Sebastian Thompson, playing bass/keyboards and drums respectively.

The first single from the album, "Chlorine & Wine", was released on 28 August 2015. The second single from the album, "Shock Me," was released on 15 November 2015.

The album was included at number 23 on Rock Sound's top 50 releases of 2015 list and at number 7 on Rolling Stone's Best Metal Albums of 2015 list.


TRACKLIST CD/ LP:

1.     "Morningstar"       4:16
2.     "Shock Me"       4:17
3.     "Try to Disappear"       4:52
4.     "Kerosene"       5:10
5.     "Fugue"       2:34

6.     "Chlorine & Wine"       6:49
7.     "The Iron Bell"       4:24
8.     "Desperation Burns"       4:14
9.     "If I Have to Wake Up (Would You Stop the Rain?)"       5:41
10.     "Crossroads of Infinity"       0:16


LINE-UP:

    Pete Adams – vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
    John Dyer Baizley – lead vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, lyrics, bells, glockenspiel, Wurlitzer electric piano
    Nick Jost – bass guitar, double bass, piano, synthesizers
    Sebastian Thomson – drums