Baroness/Graveyard/Pallbearer 24/25 November 2024 Dublin/Belfast

[Pagan Saviour]

[Squigs]

Find it hard to believe Graveyard are over Pallbearer on this bill. Will still like to go, but I'm guessing it'll be all new gear from Pallbearer and a short set. Baroness will be cool.

[open face surgery]

Cool line up. Graveyard are def the much bigger band.

[StoutAndAle]

Of the 3 bands - Pallbearer are who I would be most interested in seeing. All 4 albums are great (first two are phenomenal) but I've never caught them live.

I've seen Graveyard two or three times at festivals in Germany around the time of "Lights Out" - they're grand and that was a good album but they are a bit one dimensional.

Lost interest in Baroness post the "Blue" record which is a monster and I still listen to it regularly - but the one after it, "Yellow", didn't grab me at all. Are any of the records after that worth investigating?

[ldj]

Purple is probably only second to Blue as far as Baroness go imo, just a fantastic modern hard rock album with bits of Lizzy and Floyd worship all over it.

They'd be the main draw of this for me, big fan of Pallbearers first two as well, will try and give the recent stuff a go to see if it finally clicks.

[Squigs]

Cool line up. Graveyard are def the much bigger band.

Going by the Spotify listens, by an absolute whopper margin too. Never liked Hisingen Blues at the time, maybe worthy of a revisit.

[Alphonsus]

Haven't heard the latest Baroness album so no idea what that is like. Giving Grey and Gold a listen and I'm thinking it's good but..  Some many layered vocals and effects. It's as if everything has been put through a enormous line of pedals. Even the drums and cymbals to the point where the cymbal becomes a sort of weird hissing noise that floats around. There is a good album in there somewhere and it almost makes it but the production never really comes together and it all sounds very overbearing and loud. Basically it needs a more natural sound with a few less of the annoying flying saucer effects. Have seen them live though and thought they were great. 

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

Not gone on that production at all either, think it muddies it up a fair bit. On the other hand, this is a more natural presentation and I think it's fairly rockin. Borderlines in particular vs the album cut is class here IMO.

[GravyCapone]

Any stage times for Dublin?

[ldj]

Pallbearer 6.30
Graveyard 7.30
Baroness 9.15

Per DME.

[GravyCapone]

Thanks

[Condensedszyt]

Baroness are a decent band live. Good energy. The music isn't for me and the crowd, weak as all fuck. I had a feeling the likelihood of a pit was lower than my usual type of gig, but that was bad. Left early. Got a nice shirt from the merch stand at least.

[ldj]

I really enjoyed that.

Haven't really enjoyed any of Pallbearer's stuff since Foundations of Burden but they sounded great imo, will give their recent material another shot.

Graveyard, fairly meat and potatoes blues rock but an enjoyable live show.

Baroness sounded class, great energy, good setlist, would love to see them do a full headline set.

[Vim Fuego]

I'm not really into the band - I think the only stuff I own is the Second EP (v good) but I always bounce off the later stuff - it's like a more melodic diet-Mastodon or something. It's objectively grand but doesn't grab me.

Despite this, I did enjoy the gig tonight. Good energy from the band, enjoyable to watch a good pair of guitarists playing off one another and I thought it sounded pretty good/clear. That is almost certainly the heaviest band I've seen playing through mostly fender amps.

It was a fairly short set though, came on bang at 9pm and finished not long after ten and the set had a few interlude type songs in there. I was expecting something a bit more epic but again, not being a huge fan, short and sweet was ok for me. 

Liked what I caught of Graveyard - will check them out more this week.

[Deranged Bear!]

Great gig really enjoyed it. I've wanted to see Pallbearer for years and they didn't disappoint. Their short set got better as they moved through the songs.

Co-Headline gigs can be hit and miss and to be honest if Graveyard were on last I would've possibly left early. They were grand, enjoyable at times but an hour of it was too much.

Baroness were deadly, loved the energy and the crowd were enjoying it. I agree, a longer set would've been great but the hour was quality stuff.