«
»
Cinemetal

BARONESS VISIT XIBALBA IN NEW VIDEO

 Monday, November 9th, 2009 at 11:00am by

Over the weeken, Baroness released a video for “A Horse Called Golgotha,” one of many excellent tracks from their latest effort Blue Record. I’m not sure Blue Record will end up in my year-end top records list, but I know plenty of people who love the shit out of this record and I certainly can’t begrudge them that; it IS really good.

So this video is pretty psychedelic / trippy / artsy, much like Blue Record itself. I’d sum it up thusly: if Hugh Jackman’s “future” character in Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain had been sick, twisted and tortured on the inside instead of a Zen-like testament to patience, this is what the movie would’ve looked like. Stop the presses, Vince made a movie reference! Next thing you know Axl’s going to write his own Metal Mets column.

-VN



Baroness – ‘Blue Record’ Out Now!!! | MySpace Video

Tags: , ,
  • Mike

    First! And not too bad, I’d watch it high.

  • http://www.last.fm/user/groverXIII groverXIII

    I love this album… but this video was retarded. Must be that I’m not on drugs.

    • metalanus

      agreed.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Hulsey/653830783 David Hulsey

    It does help to be on drugs. Otherwise it looks like some shitty performance art garbage. This band is so much better than Mastodon. Unfortunately they are on the brink of BLOWING THE FUCK UP which, in my humble opinion, has done nothing but damage Mastodon’s sound over the last couple of albums.

  • http://raiseyerfists.wordpress.com raiseyerfists

    Well, it made slightly more sense than the Wanderlust video, I think…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Gavin/1396340262 Mark Gavin

    There was no horse riding. Especially during the 0:47-01:13 marks, which is when I would expect horse riding to be visualized to this music.

    • http://www.last.fm/user/groverXIII groverXIII

      Agreed. THE SONG IS CALLED A HORSE CALLED GOLGOTHA AND THERE WAS NO HORSE THIS IS FALSE ADVERTISING

  • http://www.pastepunk.com alex_pastepunk

    I love Baroness and I love the Blue Record. But that video straight up sucked.

  • canea

    Mostly this reminds me to watch Barbarella again. Soon.

  • gnarlk

    public enemy said it best. don’t believe the hype….

  • TommyGunn

    bad video. great song.

  • Facebook User

    Xibalba (Mexico) >>>>>> Baroness.

  • Geekbeater

    ok so once again this song is awful. I dont understand what the appeal is to this band or Mastodon since they sound exactly alike. This is the type of metal you go to a show and stand around like turds and wonder what the fuck is going on. At least thats what I do the two times I saw Mastodon. Fuck it im rabling sorry to offend every person who reads this site.

    • Lybrium

      Why do you stand around like a turd? Can you not follow the beat? Not enough cookie monster for you? Are you not partial to a bit of melody? Why did you buy Mastodon tickets again if you were a turd at the first concert?

    • LilalCFH

      I agree that THIS band is fucking awful. Everything else you said…not so much.

  • Celts67

    Weak video for a horrifically bad song. Christ people need to stop blowing their load over these guys, they are the definition of mediocrity.

  • The Ghost of D. Boon

    Was the guy in that video Henry Rollins?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Wayne-Graham/588353202 Wayne Graham

    I love Baroness, but that video was basically “a bunch of stuff happening”, which is the sad state of music video in the 2000s. There was probably some guy freaking out about this guy getting the interpretive dance *just right* when it really doesn’t matter…at all.