BORIS

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Boris is an experimental metal band from Tokyo in Japan, formed in 1992.

Boris has released music in a number of different styles including sludge metal, stoner metal, doom metal, drone metal, stoner rock, hardcore punk, post-rock, noisecore and noise, experimental rock, j-pop, dream-pop, folk and indie rock.

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Boris is an extremely prolific band and is known to regularly switch musical genres between albums, drawing from a wide variety of musical styles including psychedelic rock, punk, sludge, doom, drone, pop, glam metal, noise, ambient and more. Boris takes its name from a song on Bullhead by Melvins.

They made their first recorded appearance on an obscure 1994 compilation entitled Take Care of Scabbard Fish, released only in Japan and now out of print. Absolutego, their full-length debut, came out in 1996 on the band’s own Fangs Anal Satan imprint but was unavailable in the U.S. for years, a situation that was
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BORIS Discography

BORIS albums / top albums

BORIS Absolutego album cover 2.81 | 12 ratings
Absolutego
Drone Metal 1996
BORIS Amplifier Worship album cover 3.29 | 23 ratings
Amplifier Worship
Drone Metal 1998
BORIS Flood album cover 4.21 | 19 ratings
Flood
Metal Related 2000
BORIS Heavy Rocks album cover 3.96 | 12 ratings
Heavy Rocks
Stoner Metal 2002
BORIS Megatone (with Merzbow) album cover 2.50 | 1 ratings
Megatone (with Merzbow)
Non-Metal 2002
BORIS あくまのうた (Akuma No Uta) album cover 3.74 | 15 ratings
あくまのうた (Akuma No Uta)
Sludge Metal 2003
BORIS Boris At Last: -Feedbacker- album cover 4.00 | 24 ratings
Boris At Last: -Feedbacker-
Drone Metal 2003
BORIS The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked album cover 3.30 | 5 ratings
The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked
Metal Related 2004
BORIS Dronevil album cover 4.12 | 4 ratings
Dronevil
Drone Metal 2005
BORIS Sound Track From Film 0.00 | 0 ratings
Sound Track From Film "Mabuta No Ura"
Non-Metal 2005
BORIS Pink album cover 4.08 | 16 ratings
Pink
Metal Related 2005
BORIS Sun Baked Snow Cave (with Merzbow) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Sun Baked Snow Cave (with Merzbow)
Non-Metal 2005
BORIS The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked 2 album cover 4.00 | 4 ratings
The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked 2
Non-Metal 2006
BORIS The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked 3 album cover 4.00 | 4 ratings
The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked 3
Metal Related 2006
BORIS Vein (Drone Version) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Vein (Drone Version)
Non-Metal 2006
BORIS Vein (Hardcore Version) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Vein (Hardcore Version)
Hardcore Punk 2006
BORIS Altar (with Sunn O)))) album cover 4.00 | 2 ratings
Altar (with Sunn O))))
Metal Related 2006
BORIS Rainbow (with Michio Kurihara) album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Rainbow (with Michio Kurihara)
Non-Metal 2006
BORIS Smile (Japanese version) album cover 4.00 | 4 ratings
Smile (Japanese version)
Stoner Metal 2008
BORIS Smile (English version) album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
Smile (English version)
Stoner Metal 2008
BORIS Cloud Chamber (with Michio Kurihara) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Cloud Chamber (with Michio Kurihara)
Non-Metal 2008
BORIS BXI (with Ian Astbury) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
BXI (with Ian Astbury)
Hard Rock 2010
BORIS Klatter (with Merzbow) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Klatter (with Merzbow)
Non-Metal 2011
BORIS New Album album cover 3.67 | 3 ratings
New Album
Non-Metal 2011
BORIS Attention Please album cover 3.00 | 2 ratings
Attention Please
Non-Metal 2011
BORIS Heavy Rocks 2 album cover 3.00 | 4 ratings
Heavy Rocks 2
Stoner Rock 2011
BORIS Präparat album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
Präparat
Metal Related 2013
BORIS Noise album cover 3.50 | 2 ratings
Noise
Metal Related 2014
BORIS The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked Extra album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked Extra
Metal Related 2014
BORIS Asia album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Asia
Drone Metal 2015
BORIS Urban Dance album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Urban Dance
Metal Related 2015
BORIS Warpath album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Warpath
Metal Related 2015
BORIS Eros (with Endon) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Eros (with Endon)
Hardcore Punk 2015
BORIS 現象 Gensho (with Merzbow) album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
現象 Gensho (with Merzbow)
Non-Metal 2016
BORIS Dear album cover 3.75 | 2 ratings
Dear
Sludge Metal 2017
BORIS Secrets album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Secrets
Heavy Psych 2018
BORIS 1985 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
1985
Non-Metal 2019
BORIS LφVE album cover 2.00 | 1 ratings
LφVE
Drone Metal 2019
BORIS EVΦL album cover 2.00 | 1 ratings
EVΦL
Drone Metal 2019
BORIS リフレイン (Refrain) (with Z.O.A) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
リフレイン (Refrain) (with Z.O.A)
Non-Metal 2020
BORIS No album cover 4.15 | 6 ratings
No
Sludge Metal 2020
BORIS 2R0I2P0 (with Merzbow) album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
2R0I2P0 (with Merzbow)
Metal Related 2020
BORIS New Album 2009 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
New Album 2009
Atmospheric Sludge Metal 2021
BORIS Kanau Re-master + Live album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Kanau Re-master + Live
Drone Metal 2021
BORIS W album cover 3.00 | 2 ratings
W
Sludge Metal 2022
BORIS Fade album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Fade
Drone Metal 2022
BORIS Bright New Disease (with Uniform) album cover 3.00 | 1 ratings
Bright New Disease (with Uniform)
Sludge Metal 2023

BORIS EPs & splits

BORIS Barebones / Boris album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Barebones / Boris
Sludge Metal 1996
BORIS Boris / Tomsk-7 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Boris / Tomsk-7
Sludge Metal 1997
BORIS More Echoes, Touching Air Landscape album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
More Echoes, Touching Air Landscape
Drone Metal 1999
BORIS 1970 / ワレルライド album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
1970 / ワレルライド
Sludge Metal 2002
BORIS Boris / The Dudley Corporation album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Boris / The Dudley Corporation
Non-Metal 2003
BORIS Walrus & Groon (with Merzbow) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Walrus & Groon (with Merzbow)
Non-Metal 2007
BORIS Long Hair And Tights album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Long Hair And Tights
Sludge Metal 2007
BORIS Damaged album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Damaged
Hardcore Punk 2007
BORIS She's So Heavy album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
She's So Heavy
Non-Metal 2007
BORIS Chapter Ahead Being Fake album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Chapter Ahead Being Fake
Sludge Metal 2009
BORIS Golden Dance Classics album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Golden Dance Classics
Non-Metal 2009
BORIS Scion A/V Remix: Buzz-In album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Scion A/V Remix: Buzz-In
Non-Metal 2009
BORIS Boris / Saade album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Boris / Saade
Sludge Metal 2011
BORIS Black Original Remix album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Black Original Remix
Non-Metal 2011
BORIS Asobi Seksu x Boris album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Asobi Seksu x Boris
Non-Metal 2012
BORIS Boris / Joe Volk album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Boris / Joe Volk
Non-Metal 2012
BORIS Big Peach / Noel Ford album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Big Peach / Noel Ford
Stoner Rock 2014
BORIS Mr. Shortkill album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Mr. Shortkill
Stoner Metal 2016
BORIS Phenomenons Drive album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Phenomenons Drive
Sludge Metal 2018
BORIS -Unknown Flowers- album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
-Unknown Flowers-
Non-Metal 2018
BORIS Tears E.P. album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Tears E.P.
Non-Metal 2019
BORIS Cosmos Re-Master + Live album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Cosmos Re-Master + Live
Metal Related 2021
BORIS Boris / Rocky & The Sweden album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Boris / Rocky & The Sweden
Hardcore Punk 2021
BORIS Reincarnation Rose album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Reincarnation Rose
Metal Related 2021
BORIS Dear Extra album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Dear Extra
Sludge Metal 2021
BORIS Noël album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Noël
Non-Metal 2021
BORIS Weedsconsin / Down The Road I Go album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Weedsconsin / Down The Road I Go
Stoner Metal 2022
BORIS Rocky & The Sweden / Boris album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Rocky & The Sweden / Boris
Hardcore Punk 2022
BORIS Hello There album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Hello There
Alternative Metal 2024
BORIS Twins Of Evil album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Twins Of Evil
Sludge Metal 2024

BORIS live albums

BORIS Keiji Haino With Boris - Black: Implication Flooding album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Keiji Haino With Boris - Black: Implication Flooding
Metal Related 1998
BORIS 04092001 (with Merzbow) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
04092001 (with Merzbow)
Non-Metal 2005
BORIS Archive: Boris Volume One 0.00 | 0 ratings
Archive: Boris Volume One "Live 96-98"
Drone Metal 2005
BORIS Archive: Boris Volume 2 0.00 | 0 ratings
Archive: Boris Volume 2 "Drumless Shows"
Drone Metal 2005
BORIS Archive: Boris Volume Three 0.00 | 0 ratings
Archive: Boris Volume Three "2 Long Songs"
Drone Metal 2005
BORIS Rock Dream (with Merzbow) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Rock Dream (with Merzbow)
Metal Related 2007
BORIS Smile: Live At Wolf Creek album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Smile: Live At Wolf Creek
Metal Related 2008
BORIS Smile Live In Prague album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Smile Live In Prague
Stoner Metal 2009
BORIS Boris Performing 4.50 | 1 ratings
Boris Performing "Flood"
Metal Related 2013
BORIS 2007​.​12​.​10, 0.00 | 0 ratings
2007​.​12​.​10, "Altar" Presentation With BORIS, Kentish Town Forum, London, UK (with (Sunn O))) )
Drone Metal 2015
BORIS Crossing Waltz album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Crossing Waltz
Stoner Metal 2016
BORIS Live At Third Man Records album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live At Third Man Records
Stoner Metal 2017
BORIS Eternity album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Eternity
Sludge Metal 2017
BORIS 不透明度 -You Laughed Like A Water Mark- Live At Shelter 20070204 (with Michio Kurihara) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
不透明度 -You Laughed Like A Water Mark- Live At Shelter 20070204 (with Michio Kurihara)
Heavy Psych 2018
BORIS Archive Volume Four - Evil Stack Live album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Archive Volume Four - Evil Stack Live
Metal Related 2020
BORIS Archive Volume Five - Pink Days album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Archive Volume Five - Pink Days
Metal Related 2020
BORIS Absolutego Studio Session 2018 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Absolutego Studio Session 2018
Drone Metal 2021
BORIS 0.00 | 0 ratings
"Hope" Japan Tour 2011
Sludge Metal 2021
BORIS Live! Amplifier Worship album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live! Amplifier Worship
Sludge Metal 2021
BORIS No World Tour 0.00 | 0 ratings
No World Tour "In Your Head" 2021
Sludge Metal 2021
BORIS Tokyo Wonder Land album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Tokyo Wonder Land
Atmospheric Sludge Metal 2021
BORIS Japanese Heavy Rock Hits Live - 25th Anniversary Show album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Japanese Heavy Rock Hits Live - 25th Anniversary Show
Stoner Metal 2021
BORIS ア バオ ア ク -Boris Performing Fade- album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
ア バオ ア ク -Boris Performing Fade-
Drone Metal 2024
BORIS And 2 Years Later album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
And 2 Years Later
Sludge Metal 2024

BORIS demos, promos, fans club and other releases (no bootlegs)

BORIS Demo Vol. 1 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Demo Vol. 1
Sludge Metal 1992
BORIS Demo Vol. 3 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Demo Vol. 3
Sludge Metal 1995
BORIS Archive Volume Zero - Early Demo album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Archive Volume Zero - Early Demo
Sludge Metal 2020
BORIS “Heavy Rocks” Demo 2001 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
“Heavy Rocks” Demo 2001
Sludge Metal 2024
BORIS Heavy Rocks Demo 2001 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Heavy Rocks Demo 2001
Sludge Metal 2024
BORIS Feedbacker Sessions “Boris At Last -Feedbacker-” Composition Process April-June, 2003 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Feedbacker Sessions “Boris At Last -Feedbacker-” Composition Process April-June, 2003
Drone Metal 2024

BORIS re-issues & compilations

BORIS Archive album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Archive
Drone Metal 2005
BORIS Variations + Live In Japan album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Variations + Live In Japan
Stoner Metal 2010
BORIS 目をそらした瞬間 - The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked - Chronicle album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
目をそらした瞬間 - The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked - Chronicle
Drone Metal 2013
BORIS Vein album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Vein
Hardcore Punk 2013
BORIS Archive II album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Archive II
Metal Related 2014
BORIS LφVE & EVφL album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
LφVE & EVφL
Drone Metal 2019
BORIS Japanese Heavy Rock Hits (Re​-​Master) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Japanese Heavy Rock Hits (Re​-​Master)
Metal Related 2021
BORIS Documentary Of 0.00 | 0 ratings
Documentary Of "Akuma No Uta"
Stoner Metal 2021
BORIS Another Noise album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Another Noise
Atmospheric Sludge Metal 2024

BORIS singles (26)

.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
1970
Sludge Metal 2002
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
A Bao A Qu
Sludge Metal 2005
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
Statement
Stoner Rock 2008
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
メッセージ w/ Floor Shaker 12 Inch Re-Mix
Stoner Metal 2008
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
Message
Non-Metal 2008
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
Floor Shaker
Stoner Metal 2009
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
Japanese Heavy Rock Hits Vol. 1
Non-Metal 2009
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
Japanese Heavy Rock Hits Vol. 2
Metal Related 2009
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
Japanese Heavy Rock Hits Vol. 3
Metal Related 2009
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
Japanese Heavy Rock Hits Vol. 4
Non-Metal 2009
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
Looprider Remix
Non-Metal 2012
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
Boris x GOTH-TRAD - Low End Meeting (with Goth-Trad )
Non-Metal 2015
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
キルミスター
Non-Metal 2015
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
Heavyblind
Stoner Metal 2016
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
Akuma Bo Uta (At Elsewhere NYC 10th Sep. 2019) (with Uniform)
Metal Related 2020
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
Boris
Sludge Metal 2020
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
Drowning By Numbers
Non-Metal 2021
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
She Is Burning
Stoner Metal 2021
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
Heavy Friends / Korosu
Stoner Metal 2022
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
Pink / スクリーンの女 (Woman on the Screen)
Stoner Metal 2022
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
My Name Is Blank
Stoner Metal 2022
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
Kuruimizu
Stoner Metal 2022
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
Funnel Of Love
Stoner Metal 2022
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
You Are the Beginning (with Uniform)
Crossover Thrash 2023
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
Not Surprised (with Uniform)
Sludge Metal 2023
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
Serial Tear
Sludge Metal 2024

BORIS movies (DVD, Blu-Ray or VHS)

.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
見殺し塔からずっと: Live At Shimokitazawa Shelter
Stoner Metal 2003
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
Heavy Metal Me
Drone Metal 2005
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
Bootleg -Feedbacker-
Drone Metal 2005
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
Wizard's Convention
Stoner Metal 2005
.. Album Cover
0.00 | 0 ratings
Live In Japan
Sludge Metal 2011

BORIS Reviews

BORIS Amplifier Worship

Album · 1998 · Drone Metal
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SilentScream213
Boris, the beloved Drone Metallers from Japan. Or rather, by now they are more of a chameleon act, but it all started here.

Personally, I’ve got a bit of a beef with Boris. Not the band itself, obviously, but the concept. You see, I love Japanese Metal. It’s an indescribable scene with some of the most unique acts in the world, ranging through every genre under the sun. They tend to have a penchant for stick-in-your-head melodies as well as boundless experimentation. Unfortunately, many of these bands never get any recognition outside their home country. Even X Japan, revered as the country’s version of The Beatles in their home, is unknown outside of metal/music nerd circles. For some reason, getting notoriety for a Japanese (Metal) band seems much more difficult than for bands in the West.

And what band struck gold? What band tops charts across websites and is beloved by the music world? Boris. The band who makes a song by playing the same four notes dragged out over 9 minutes. Or not even playing notes at all, and letting the feedback speak for itself.

Don’t get me wrong, Boris are experimental, and unique. They experiment with how boring they can possibly make a song and still get it labeled a masterpiece anyway. They’re also very unique in that they’ll put a directionless Drone Metal song on the same record as a repetitive Stoner Metal song and a *checking RYM genre voting page* Post-Rock song? In all of which almost nothing happens and they are considered loveable quirky hipsters.

If you can’t tell, this review really isn’t about Boris. It’s about my frustration with feeling out of touch. Nothing against the band… but they represent all I do not understand about the music fandom.

BORIS Absolutego

Album · 1996 · Drone Metal
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SilentScream213
Boris is actually one of the most notable Metal bands to come out of Japan, and one of the biggest names in Drone Metal overall. Their debut is, maybe unsurprisingly for a still rather new and unexplored genre, underwhelming. The single hour-long track is just guitar fuzz and feedback for the majority of it. Nothing resembling riffs or even rhythms – really, it’s just feedback noise (in my opinion, this doesn’t qualify as Metal, but, that’s neither here nor there). There is a midsection where drumming and vocals come in, and that’s really the only Metal part of it, hell it’s the only part that resembles music at all, but it still ain’t good. And it’s over soon enough, back to just noise.

Drone Metal – at least THIS type of Drone Metal, with no mood or rhythm or anything resembling a melody – is like a niche fetish. One that disgusts me, that I cannot and will not ever be into. But for anyone who enjoys it – I’m happy for you, get your rocks off to some wack fuzz.

BORIS Amplifier Worship

Album · 1998 · Drone Metal
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Warthur
Boris tend to vary a bit in releases between more purist drone and drone metal - the distinction being in how much in the way they lean on their post-rock and ambient influences and how many meaty Black Sabbath-on-valium riffs they work into their music. To my ears, the balance on Amplifier Worship is very much towards drone metal; take, for instance, album closer vomitself, which begins in slow doom metal territory and then somehow degrades into a grumbling earth tremor of a track. Goodness knows what the frog on the cover is supposed to represent, but ultimately what metalhead could go far wrong with an album called Amplifier Worship?

BORIS Absolutego

Album · 1996 · Drone Metal
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True that Earth was first in creating the whole drone metal thing and others like Melvins and Naked City immediately followed in the wake but it was the Japanese noise worshippers BORIS who really created something special in the doom and gloom department with an amplifier feed back so fat it needs lyposuction and bass sound so deep it disturbs slimy earth worms. ABSOLUTEGO is the then quartet’s debut album which originally came out on the Fangs Anal Satan label but has since been picked up by Southern Lord where it features a bonus track.

This entire album is basically one 60:15 long (65:34 on the ABSOLUTEGO+ edition) ripple through feedback and fuzz with a slow pulsating rhythmic march that sounds like a stoned Godzilla prowling the countryside looking for munchies as the feedback twists and morphs and extends to infinity and back to create quite disturbing sonicscapes that eke out all the dread and awe that this type of music was made for.

As the hypnotic rhythm marches on, the fuzz thickens and the percussion slowly evolves until around the half hour mark a cacophonous drum frenzy simulates the chaos of a falling building after a Japanese earthquake or something and then reverts back into the pacified feedback and fuzz march once again. Throughout the album the sounds are jarring and sound like the listener is under the rotating blades of a lawnmower on the verge of being ripped to shreds but never actually going there and only sustaining the impending doom to come.

This is definitely not for the faint of heart as there is no traditional song structure and is pretty much a parade through sonic torture of sort. As drone metal isn’t my favorite type of metal on the scene there are some true standouts and this introduction to the Japanese noise scene combined with jarring metal sounds is one of the best out there. I recommend the edition with the bonus track “Dronevil 2” which is a mere 7:50 in length but adds a different quieter drone ending to the album that doesn’t rely on fuzzy guitars and more on an undulating bass line that reverbs so low it sounds like the subwoofer is gonna explode.

BORIS Flood

Album · 2000 · Metal Related
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Warthur
Taking in the gathering of stormclouds, the unleashing of the storm, the eruption of the floodwaters, and the calm in the wake of the disaster, Flood is a four-part mostly-instrumental drone exploration with occasional sludge metal flavour. Between them, Wata, Atsuo and Takeshi show an adept mastery of mood and atmosphere, showing a tempestuous ability to shift gear abruptly to perfectly reflect the ebb and flow of the natural disaster of drone the album offers. Wata, in particular, by switching between the guitar and the e-bow makes a particularly nuanced contribution to the album. A genuine drone classic by any measure.

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Polymorphia wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Really digging this band right now, as anyone can probably see in my current avatar.
Doomster wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Great band.
Wilytank wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Should there be a separate page for the Boris with Merzbow collaborations?
Vehemency wrote:
more than 2 years ago
And the Sabbat disco still lacks compilations, somehow I don't feel motivated to work on it...
more than 2 years ago
jeez, "very active" indeed
more than 2 years ago
Check the Sabbat (JPN) discography, then. That one gave Vemehency and me quite some work to do.
more than 2 years ago
I wouldn't fancy having to have added all these albums

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