“Are you a creative person?” chirps a woman on Project 9-6-1, Atlanta’s hardest rocking FM station (according to them). “Then the Savannah College of Art and Design is for you." Like a rallying cry for artists to converge on Savannah, GA, the coastal resort haven is to the raw psychedelic sludge metal in the new millennium as what nearby Athens was to the US college rock revolution in the early 90s. The members of what was to become Kylesa and Black Tusk heeded the call as did a Mr. John Dyer Baizley, formative guitarist and resident visual artist in Baroness.