We recently interviewed Baroness frontman John Baizley and drummer Sebastian Thomson at this year's Ozzfest about their upcoming album and more. Before wrapping up the conversation, we asked the two about their dream tour and setlist alike the previous articles we've done with Rosetta, Marty Friedman, Cattle Decapitation, Opeth, Periphery, Clutch, Between the Buried and Me, and Devin Townsend. Check it our below.
What band that you’ve previously toured with would you like to tour with again?
John Baizley: Meshuggah, for sure. Deftones would be fun to tour again. Mastodon was great. Metallica was fun to tour with. We've toured with a ton of fun bands, there's not many bands I wouldn't want to tour with again.
Who is a band you have yet to tour with that you’d like to?
John: I kind of don't feel like jinxing it. There's not a ton of older, established bands that make that list for me, but there's a lot of young bands that I'd love to tour with vicariously to see them play.
Sebastian Thomson: I feel like Baroness lives in this weird world where we're not metal, but not a rock band. So, it's a little hard sometimes to find bands that we haven't already played with to play with.
If you could choose only one song from each release to play in your setlist, which tracks would you pick?
First EP
John: "Tower Falls" because it's the first song we ever wrote.
Sebastian: I'm one of the "new" members, so I was not in the band when this was written. "Tower Falls" stands out as good riffs and good grooves, even for someone who was not involved.
Second EP
John: "Red Sky" because it's the best song on there and it has tasty licks.
Red
John: "Isak" and today was one of the only shows since we written that song where we did not include that song in the set.
Blue
Sebastian: This one for me isn't as easy. "The Gnashing" and "A Horse Called Golgotha" is up there. Those are the most obvious ones.
John: It's either "Sweetest Curse" or those two. Those three songs are the ones we play all the time now. I'm going to go with "A Horse Called Golgotha" on this one.
Yellow
John: Definitely "March to the Sea." It's probably the most excited response that we get from that record.
Green
John: I think my favorite song to play is the "Green Theme," which is a short instrumental.
Purple
Sebastian: That's a good question. I like "If I Have to Wake Up (Would You Stop the Rain?)."
John: I think "If I Have to Wake Up (Would You Stop the Rain?)" was a huge songwriting achievement for us, but "Chlorine and Wine" is always fun and difficult and challenging and exciting to play.
Sebastian: You know it has that gang vocal, crowd sing-along moment. Especially in any Spanish-speaking country because they have that whole soccer chant thing down.
What countries would you ideally want to tour in?
Sebastian: Argentina.
John: Russia and Brazil. Oh, and Iceland.
