Orange Chicken Rocks!

I was at school today, starving, aggravated, and wanting to be anywhere but there. So what did I do? I fucking left and drove straight to the nearest Panda Express. I ordered chow mein, Beijing beef, and orange chicken. I gobbled that shit up. It was devoured in literally 5 minutes. It was exquisite. After every bite, I was left with such a satisfied, magnificent feeling, I could die feeling I accomplished everything that one can do in his or her life. My meal on this day was peerless. I wanted to jump up and exclaim my delight, for the chef clearly deserved every accolade I could offer for his meritorious work. From the spicyness of the beef and red peppers, to the sweet and tangy taste of the extremely low grade quality chicken, it was almost too much to handle. But I handled it all right, that I did. For about 45 minutes at least.

Baroness - Blue Record (2009)

BARONESS formed in the Summer 2003 in Savannah, GA. Their 2007 album entitled "Red Album" was named Album of the Year by Revolver magazine. With their 2009, second full length album, "Blue Record", they may have done the unlikely actually managing to top the "Red Album". This record is so fucking good. I must offer this warning however; I may be slightly partial to the "Blue Record" considering I heard it before I listened to their first release, thus my reasoning for me to be so bold and proclaim it is even better. (I tend to do a lot of things backwards).

The album opens with a pretty cool intro titled Bullhead's Psalm which flows nicely into an excellent, bad ass song to get the party started. "The Sweetest Curse" is said track and starts with this sludgy, hardcore riffage to eventually makes it way into an extremely catchy and melodic solo half way through the song ending with extremely catchy vocals that I cant help but sing along with every time. The next song is another standout for me in "Jake Leg". The song is filled with their signature guitar sound with sludgy break downs combined with super catchy southern rock solos.

The band experiments on this album trying out different vocal stylings as this is apparent in the next track called "Steel That Sleeps The Eye". This acoustic ballad shows a softer side to the band to eventually flow seamlessly into the next song "Swollen and Halo"; which is of course another stand out song. (Who am I kidding, every song is a stand out song.)

One cannot forget to mention the superb artwork that this album contains (as well as the previous record). Singer John Baizley creates the artwork for all Baroness albums, and has done artwork for other bands and labels such as Darkest Hour, The Red Chord, Vitamin X, Sounds of the Underground tour, Kylesa, Daughters, Torche, Pig Destroyer, and the Magrudergrind/Shitstorm split grindcore CD on Robotic Empire.

So in conclusion, I fucking loved this Cd and since obtaining it, I have listened to it daily. I highly recommend anyone to at least give it a shot if you like rock n roll, because this is rock n roll at it's finest.
10/10