Baroness at Turf Club (May 23, 2025)

Baroness Setlist

— Red Album —

Rays on Pinion
The Birthing
Isak
Wailing Wintry Wind
Cockroach En Fleur
Wanderlust
Aleph
Teeth of a Cogwheel
O’Appalachia
Grad
— Blue Record —
Bullhead’s Psalm
The Sweetest Curse
Jake Leg
Steel That Sleeps the Eye
Swollen and Halo
Ogeechee Hymnal
A Horse Called Golgotha
O’er Hell and Hide
War, Wisdom and Rhyme
Blackpowder Orchard
The Gnashing
Bullhead’s Lament

Baroness returned to the Twin Cities Friday to perform their Red Album and Blue Record in full – no surprises, no filler, just two beloved albums delivered with clarity and force at well over 100 decibels.

They opened with Red Album under red lighting, framed by a huge illustrated banner – frontman John Dyer Baizley’s distinctive artwork. His vocals were raw and expressive, but it was guitarist Gina Gleason who seemed to be having the most fun, shredding with precision and warmth.

The band sounded tremendous throughout the room: heavy but breathable, tight but not fussy. Their ornate, atmospheric blend of metal lives in the space between melody and brutality, and the dynamics – acoustic interludes, atmospheric soundscapes, full-volume blasts – landed perfectly in the Turf’s unforgiving acoustics.

The lighting shifted to blue for Blue Record, which brought even more technical complexity. Baroness has never played the Turf before, but Baizley said they’d had a great day in Saint Paul – after first greeting the crowd with “Hello Minneapolis,” quickly corrected to “Hello Twin Cities.” (The crowd generously forgave him.)

Up front, the crowd leaned reverent more than rowdy – when one fan tried to start a pit, he was gently but firmly removed, and everyone else returned to their personal radius of headbanging.

Openers The Infinity Ring set the mood with an eclectic six-piece setup: violin, keys, some sort of bow-operated box spring, and layered guitars. Their songs moved between moody ambience and explosive catharsis, and while some of the sound mix got lost in the room, their presence helped tune the crowd into the night’s slower, heavier frequencies.

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