Baron have found a way to have the best of both worlds – the death metal and the doom metal one – and create music that showcases the best qualities of both the styles. Their music can be surprisingly punchy, even culminating in earth-shattering breakdowns and then have slow, doleful tunes making the listener wonder if it’s the same band. Being Finnish helps with that, as they’re good with both the styles, and Baron here are able to pull it off with remarkable ease. It’s just very good music and stringed together brilliantly too. The album is now streaming in full by Toilet ov Hell AT THIS LINK.
“Baron make no broken bones about their affinity for death metal from their home country, but they’ve taken that early ’90s blueprint, injected it with a hefty modern production, and sent it out, unfettered and ravenous, into the unsuspecting world”
| PRESS – – “Baron straddles those lines masterfully between chunky death metal and crushing, mournful doomy atmosphere” – Metal Epidemic (UK) 4.5/5 https://www.metalepidemic.com/ – “a perfectly compelling album that floors and overwhelms the listener” – Broken Tomb (Spain) 9/10 https://www. – “Traditional death metal but damn well done” – Metalhead (Italy) 8.5/10 https://www.metalhead.it/ – “magnificent titan of an album” – Head-Banger Reviews (US) https://headbangerreviews. – “the perfect soundtrack for a ride through hell” – Metal.de (Germany) 8/10 https://www.metal.de/reviews/ – “not the usual Death Metal blast and riff approach” – Metal Crypt (Canada) 4/5 https://www.metalcrypt.com/ – “discover heaviness and brutality at different speeds” – Acta Infernalis (France) 80/100 https://actainfernalis.com/ – “monstrously riffed-out death metal” – Toilet ov Hell (US) https://toiletovhell.com/ – “Well done, and highly recommended” – Flying Fiddlesticks (UK) https://flyingfiddlesticks. – “crushing and powerful” – Hard Rock Info (Sweden) http://www.hardrockinfo.com/ – “a varied record that puts you in a good mood” – X Crash (Germany) https://x-crash.de/baron- |
BARON (Finland) – Beneath the Blazing Abyss (Death/Doom Metal)
Finnish band Baron are straddling the styles of death and doom metal in a spectacular manner. In their faster, heavier moments, they seem to be a death metal band through and through but when they slow down, they showcase a wholly different dimension to their sound. They are able to do so without altering their imposing, crushing sound and the transitions in pace never seem abrupt but usually culminate into gigantic heaving and stomping parts as if a mountainous, infernal demon like the one on their artwork has decided to awaken after centuries only to mosh. It’s the same the other way around, with slower parts building up to an apocalyptic rampage, volcanic fire spewing all over for added effect, and basically all hell breaking loose. It’s only fitting that a Finnish band is tasked with this immense responsibility, with heroes from that land having already mastered both the styles and passed the skills down the generations. Baron are then indeed one of the most promising new bands from that part of the world, possessing the strength as well as having the sensibilities required to make this work, with surprisingly cohesive writing and clean, powerful execution.
For fans of: Deicide, Rottrevore, Abhorrence, early Amorphis, Convulse, Morbid Angel
Line up:
Tommi Astala – Vocals, Acoustic guitar
Jerry Tamminen – Guitar, Vocals, Programming
Teemu Karell – Guitar
Toni Nisukangas – Bass
Juuso Hämäläinen (Disguised Malignance, Azatoth) – Drums
Cover art by Misha Mono
Track listing:
1. Primordial Possession
2. Infernal Atonement
3. At the Dawn of Damnation
4. Incinerated Evil
5. Bound to the Funeral Pyres
6. Hands of Sin…
7. …Swallowed by Fires Beneath
Official release date – April 26th, 2024