2016 Australian tour

"What?!" I hear readers exclaim, "Baroness and Grieg; bitterly disappointing?" - Well, fear not, I refer to my ailing health not the bands.

Last week when I spoke to John Dyer Baizley, he was at home in Philadelphia. Now he’s here, in Australia, blowing our fucking minds with the rest of the Baroness fellas.

As I ventured out on a chilly Thursday evening, wending my way to the Crowbar, I pondered how in my youth I did so love getting off my chops and getting about town like some bent <

I’m on the phone to Weedeater’s bassist and vocalist Dave ‘Dixie’ Collins and the phone-line is making him sound like some kind of weird demon.

It gets me every time; I love anchovies and I love peanut butter but only a proper madman would enjoy them both together - and such is my issue with prog/melodic death.

When I ask how Buckcherry’s vocalist Josh Todd is, he tells me “Low and tight to the right.” – which is odd because to me that just sounds like a description of hi

With a line up headed by the orchestration, direction and musical genius of the band creator and keyboardist: Tuomas Holopainen, the brilliant vocal range of Floor Jansen