Boris & Corrupted Classic or Dud?

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Doesn't seem to be a Boris or a Corrupted C/D thread.
So here we go.

Boris - I love them. My favourite albums by them are Flood, Heavy Rocks,Dronevil,
Feedbacker http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg900/g958/g95873cova5.jpg Absolutego http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre600/e601/e601436iakd.jpg ,
Amplifier Worship http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf700/f787/f78750gux2w.jpg
and my fave album cover has to be Akuma No Uta http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg700/g751/g75188feyik.jpg

The new one with Merzbow called 'Snow baked Cave' is really good and much better than the soundtrack album which was merely 'ok'.
The new 3 cdr live set is also great. A good mix of their albums and if you dont want to pay ebay prices now its OOP then get on slsk.

I like how its not always drone stuff and on Heavy Rocks they can rock out with the best of any band. Just a shame I can't understand the japanese lyrics!

Corrupted- Probably the heaviest band I own stuff by. Paso Inferior is probably my fave but I cant seem to find the cd or lp of that anywhere.
Finally managed to track down 'Se HacePor Los Suenos Asesinos' and 'Llenandose De Gusanos'. This time its spanish lyrics that i can't understand.

New album 'El Mundo Frio' is fantastic.
Aquarius have this to say

Boris may be the drone dirge darlings right now, but we've always had a soft spot for their more obscure countrymen Corrupted. Where Boris revel in cartoonish imagery, seventies kitsch, eighties heavy metal, bell bottoms, double neck guitars, and balls out rock and roll, Corrupted lurk in the shadows, sullen and distanced, weary and wary, crusty and curmudgeonly, wrapped in mystery, each record printed in stark black and white, a Japanese band singing exclusively in Spanish strangely enough, who are obliquely political, and much more grim and gloomy than Boris at their droniest. Every record a massive plodding slab of depressive doom, epic and monstrously heavy, but with stretches of delicate beauty. Rumors have been floating around of a triple cd, single three hour song, Corrupted release, but until that truly materializes, El Mundo Frio will probably remain the heaviest, creepiest, most beautiful, epic, expansive slab of slowcore doom drone you will ever hear. Ever. One hour and twelve minutes. A cloud of shimmering drone underpins hazy, haunting piano and warm chordal swells, plucked harps and simple finger picked guitars. For almost ten minutes, Corrupted creep along dreamily, stepping lightly, drifting lazily through a stark ambient soundfield, before the heavens collapse and the sky begins to fall in huge crushing chunks, and massive stabs of super distorted guitars swell and crumble into an abstract pounding rhythm. Completely heavy, but strangely lovely at the same time. A lilting melody is hidden somewhere beneath all that buzz and rumble. Eventually the stabs slowly mutate into a creeping, loping post rock rhythm, with minor key strums, simple shuffling drumming and growled semi-spoken vocals, before the whole thing fades to almost nothingness, revisiting the delicate shimmer of the beginning of the record. The last twenty five minutes are mostly ambient with snatches of that hypnotic post rock, and a brief but furious explosion of soul crushing heaviness with the same vocals delivered now in a glass gargling gurgle, and then the track drifts off into ten plus minutes of barely there dreaminess, mostly single notes on the harp drifting like snow flakes against a black night sky. So lovely. Easily the most fully realized 'doom' or 'dirge' track ever wethinks. So emotionally charged, so effortlessly complex and yet so utterly and beautifully simple. Somehow it's the perfect blend of Boris's Flood (our favorite Boris!), the doleful slowcore of Low, the abstract dirge of Harvey Milk, the epic expansiveness of Godspeed You Black Emperor, the metallic post rock of Pelican, the downtuned ultradoom of Skepticism, and the majestic dreaminess of Growing.
Mighty expensive but well worth it. Comes packaged in an extravagant hardcover book style digipak, with a gorgeous booklet, lots of abstract black and white landscapes, printed on vellum and overlaid other images. So nice!

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Saturday, 29 October 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

Infact feel free to have a general japanese rock, metal or noize search & destroy too.

Whats the best Merzbow album ? I only have '1930' and 'Tauromachine'

I say search Fushitsusha, Keiji Haino, Acid Mothers Temple, Melt Banana, Boredoms,Mainliner ,Zeni Geva , Flower Travellin' band ,Les Rallizes Denudes, Taj Mahal Travellers.

Im sure there are others that I haven't remembered that are just as worthy.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Saturday, 29 October 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

I love love love Corrupted's Llenandose De Gusanos, but the only other thing I have by them is the three-way split with Discordance Axis and 324. Their track on that, "Bloodscape," is much heavier and more straight-ahead doom-dirge than Llenandose. I wanna pick up the two more recent discs - El Mundo Frio and whatever the one before that was called - but albums with one hour-long track never get more than one play in my house; I just don't have that kind of time.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 29 October 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

That would be 'se hace por los suenos asesinos'.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Saturday, 29 October 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

Llenandose is pretty incredible. I still can't get over how apocalyptic that record is. Boris I like, but they don't blow me away. Flood was so ... pretty that I couldn't get engaged. I have the Merzbow/Boris Snow Baked Cave but I haven't had time to digest it yet.

But if you're asking for Merzbow recommendations as well ...
Cloud Cock 00 Grand and Mortegage/Batztoutai Extra are two relatively early ones that are sort of musique concrete tape-splicers; you can hear the source material in there. Really nice.
Door Open at 8am and Tamago are both great modern, digital records. Door Open is supposedly a free-jazz homage, which I really don't hear in there but it allows for cool titles like "Tony Williams Deathspace".
1930 is a good record for people to start with Merzbow as it's a. good and b. easily available, or at least easier than Cloud Cock which is part of the Merzbox.

― Brakhage (brakhage), Sunday, 30 October 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

boris... eh. needs some quality control and none of their styles really blow me away.

corrupted are great. paso inferior and se hace are my favorites these days.

recommend if you dig corrupted: monarch (from france), coffins (from japan and more exoterically metal than any of the above). and one day that gallhammer album's gonna come out and kick some sack.

merzbow's best cd is rainbow electronics.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Sunday, 30 October 2005 06:57 (twenty years ago)

Agreed that Boris could use some quality control, but they do hit the mark more often than not, so I'd still say: search out a good portion of their catalog (Flood, Feedbacker, and Amplifier Worship are my faves) and destroy that soundtrack album that came out in way too many overpriced formats.

Speaking of quality control, I'd say destroy AMT as well. Much of what I've heard by them has a tossed-off feel, and outside of a song or two, I didn't even like them live (which is supposedly where they shine). The Makoto Kawabata/Richard Youngs collab is great tho, so maybe I'm not looking in the right places. But it just doestn't seem worth it to slog through album after album.

pdf: The new Corrupted is really worth setting aside some time for. Couldn't believe how polished it sounded on first listen, but they pull it off quite well. And 'Se Hace...' is a whopping 3 (!) songs and only a bit over 30mins (also, it's fantastic). But the new one is really something else.

― Alan N (Alan N), Sunday, 30 October 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

BORIS!

HE'S OUR MAN!

IF HE CAN'T DRONE IT

NO ONE CAN!

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Monday, 31 October 2005 00:03 (twenty years ago)

seriously DRONE EVIL

is where its at.

good stuff right there.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Monday, 31 October 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

I need a 2nd record player to get the most of it haha.
I did download the joined version off slsk.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Monday, 31 October 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)

aquarius records! the dusty groove of hipster metal!

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 31 October 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

You don't like Aquarius? I've ordered from there a few times. I think they're great.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Monday, 31 October 2005 04:44 (twenty years ago)

vahid is required by ilm to be contrarian no matter the genre

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Monday, 31 October 2005 04:46 (twenty years ago)

last time i was there the electronica section was like a used copy of "more G.D.M.", a used copy of an obscure release by (viennese techno masters) patrick pulsinger + gerhard potuznik, a couple of early warp records bleep + bass CDs (wildplanet and RAC) and about 50 used alec empire CDs.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 31 October 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

[ALBUM OF THE WEEK] will probably remain the heaviest, creepiest, most beautiful, epic, expansive slab of slowcore doom drone you will ever hear ... until next week!!!!

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 31 October 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

like last week, when john carpenter and nada surf were their albums of the week.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Monday, 31 October 2005 05:00 (twenty years ago)

Well i've obviously never been in the shop but i find their mail order people very helpful. And they always seem to get stuff in I have trouble locating elsewhere and at a reasonable price too.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Monday, 31 October 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

Just listened to that Monarch band mentioned upthread... sounds like a non-awful version of Khanate! Sweet.

It's funny that there even is something you could call 'hipster metal' these days, though I think I'll start using 'Intelligent Heavy Metal' (IHM). It's gonna catch on, just wait.

― Alan N (Alan N), Monday, 31 October 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

The new Monarch double cd is crushing. 1st thing i've heard by them.

Alan, This os what The Wire calls it
'Subterranean Metal' primer in the Wire

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Monday, 31 October 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

I think that Monarch album is their debut. The debut double album is a trend I wholeheartedly support, as Esoteric are the only other band I can think of that have one.

― Alan N (Alan N), Monday, 31 October 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Some good stuff in this vein (and not in this vein) when the Aquarius dudes guest DJ'd on Brian Turner's WFMU show the other week.

http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/16736

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 31 October 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

I think that Monarch album is their debut.

I found other stuff on slsk just now. Could be a different band or could be self released cdrs I suppose.
I'll d/l and see.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Monday, 31 October 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

First Merzbow I listened to hard was Magnesia Nova, and it stood up to it. Dunno if it's the best (about 25,000 other albums to compare to) but it's damn good.

And Melt-Banana = Grindcore + pop = grindpop?

― Spooky Donkey, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 02:15 (twenty years ago)

Free Boris show @ Amoeba (Hollywood) this Thursday.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

who's going to boris and sunn tonight in la? i will be the old guy with the diet coke. are thrones worth showing up for? nachtmystium? is there somewhere nearby to watch the mavvies and suns westcoast pretender showdown?

― dan (dan), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Thrones is pretty good.

― jdubz (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

So why is pretty much nobody talking about the new Boris and Merzbow collaboration, Sun Baked Snow Cave? I plan on ordering it as soon as www.hydraheadshop.com comes back online.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

Still haven't had time to set aside an hour for it - it's one composition, and it's pretty meticulous, so I want to hang out and absorb it rather than pound around town listening to it on the pod.

― Brakhage (brakhage), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Nachtmystium put out a decent, limited edition record earlier this year. I'd say check it out for that alone.

― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

I'd put a link to the interview I did with Boris but 1 I don't like to spam and 2 it'd be useless spam cause the interview was in Dutch. Still, it was really interesting. Although I think they did use the random inTeLlektual generator for some answers. ;-)

― Nathalie, the Queen of Frock 'n' Fall (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Boris-3-CD-Archive-Live-CD-set-Sunn-Earth-Corrupted_W0QQitemZ4787786369QQcategoryZ307QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Wooha!

― Nathalie, the Queen of Frock 'n' Fall (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

You could always translate it!!

x-post.

I paid $33 from Arhchived for my set.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Hey Nath look how much a different one sold for!!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=4788652597&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

Well, I have Sun Baked Snow Cave in the mail now, and I'm pretty excited about it. It sounds exactly like the type of album I've been looking for. Most drone I find is, well, er... exclusively drone. There's very little else to it. That's nice, but I prefer drone with a layer of more accessible instrumentation ontop of it. A good example would be Davenport, I guess, who have a pretty noisy drone going on most of the time, but then go into the ocassional string picking or some tribal drumming. I need to find more stuff like this.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Friday, 4 November 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

Mickey are you on slsk? If so send me a an email (replace the hot.. with gmail) and i'll add you to my list on slsk.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Friday, 4 November 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

Just introduced to Corrupted. Amazing. But, yeah, these one hour long diddies is demanding of my time in a way that is rather presemptuous. The balls of these bands. I love Mahler, too, but damn if I have enough time to devote serious attention to him regularly. Check out the new Earth disc Hex. Mighty mighty. If you dig that sun-drenched desert bad-ass apocalytic western vibe, this is your disc.

― KJ, Thursday, 10 November 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

Kerr, errr, thanks for the offer, I really appreciate it, but I'm not on Slsk. At first I thought you were joking with that response, but I think you're sincere -- and I thank you. If you have time, go read the thread "Life as a felon" on ILE and you'll see why I'm not on Slsk.

Anyways, I'm actually listening to Sun Baked Snow Cave right now. I love it. I'm about half an hour in on this listen (I've already spun it at least 10 times in the few days since I got it) and it's real nice. Right now Merz has a pretty thick layer of static noise that sounds like cicadas, and Boris is doing real creepy Khanate-like guitar screeching. The effect is awesome. The album just feels alive and immersive. It's easy to sink yourself into and be swallowed by the noise.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe how much that Archive 3CD thing is going for. I waffled over it at the Boris/Sunn O))) gig in Portland, Oregon and finally picked it up for $35 for the 3-disc set in the slipcase (only to fly back home and see people getting $125 for it on eBay... are you people fucking nuts? $125 for some CDs? Jesus. I should sell mine, since I've got them ripped to MP3s anyway... and CDs to me are like MP3s with JPEG quality cover art attached put in a chintzy plastic case... or, they may as well be as far as I'm concerned, but I am a vinyl guy.)

To whoever mentioned Monarch, right on. I sent away for that 2xCD and loved it and am happy to see people giving it some recognition. Plus, this girl is cute. Needs to be on wax though, har har har!

Corrupted is of course awesome, but I am pissed the new one is not going to come out on vinyl. I broke my "fuck CDs" rule and bought a copy and I love the music, but am kind of pissed about having to spend so much money ($25) for a shitty disposable medium with ridiculous tiny artwork I normally refuse to pay more than $10 for (and even then I am selective). Then again, the music is really good.

My fav Merz discs (and tapes) out of the ~100 I have heard is Vibractance, Rainbow Electronics, Space Metalizer and some tape whose name I can't remember packaged in tissue paper that sounds like noisy Krautrock or something, one of his really early ones. I can't check it right now, as it is in a box 10,000 miles away.

Sorry about my anti-CD rant. They just piss me off a lot these days.

― bitchsplitter, Friday, 11 November 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Well Mickey, I offered as I have oop stuff that is impossible to get bar from downloading. But if you're not comfortable with that then it's cool.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Friday, 11 November 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

Ok just searched and read about your situaltion. I was unaware of this.
My apologies.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Friday, 11 November 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

No apologies needed. Thank you for the offer!

― Mickey (modestmickey), Friday, 11 November 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

I couldn't get into El Mundo Frio. I wanted to like it. I did like it until it basically repeated halfway through. Little bit overindulgent if you ask me. I'm with the poster above - I rarely get into hour-long tracks. Notable exception might be Sun Baked Snow Cave.

Anyone else loving Hyatari's "The Light Carriers" as much as me? Maybe I should post that to the drone/doom thread instead.

― recovering optimist (Royal Bed Bouncer), Friday, 11 November 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

The Hyatari album is excelent, yes. Need to pick that up somewhere.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Friday, 11 November 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

Bloody hell. It's $170 with 6 days left and it still hasn't reached the resrve price.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/boris-live-archive-3xcd-sunn-earth-isis-pelican_W0QQitemZ4792664412QQcategoryZ307QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

Blimey!

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

Oh actually thats the starting price. Good. No one will be daft enough to even bid on that if $170 is the starting price and it doesn't even meet the reserve.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

Southern Lord release schedule 2006:
MORD-DEBUT
LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR-2ND album
BORIS-PINK CD and 2xLP
SUNN/BORIS-"Altar"
ORCUSTUS-DEBUT
BURNING WITCH- RE-ISSUES (yes Hell hath frozen over and this is finally in the works)

Sunn/Boris !!!!!!

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

fuck that... lair of the minotaur 2nd album! YES!

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

And the Burning Witch stuff which will finally be affordable!!!

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

the burning witch stuff ain't that great!!!

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

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Maybe some of these aren't new remakes? If this was the U.S. version of "My Neighbor Satan" I think I like it as much as the Japanese version.

― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 03:39 (sixteen years ago)

This is really quite good. Going to bed shortly.

― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 04:08 (sixteen years ago)

according to discogs only 5 of the tracks are new/reworked versions, the rest are just taken from their respective studio releases. not that i'm about to complain to see "floor shaker" on this.

― Bastards of Young Dro, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 04:20 (sixteen years ago)

Ah, okay. Am I not even recognizing some tracks from Heavy Rocks? Possibly. The Smile versions here must be the U.S. versions. I've never heard that Smile all the way through.

― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 04:22 (sixteen years ago)

I had never heard (or heard of) "Floor Shaker" before and I am happy it's here too.

― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 04:23 (sixteen years ago)

Roadburn turned me on to Church of Misery in a BIG way. I didn't realize how much they are a rock & roll band.

― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 04:29 (sixteen years ago)

More importantly has anyone heard the stuff they've recorded with Ian Astbury yet? Gonna be fun. I hope.

― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 08:06 (sixteen years ago)

When that slinky percussion sound comes in on this alternate version of "Rainbow," it's so funny. I think one reason I like Boris so much is that they secretly have a really good sense of rhythm.

― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 12:47 (sixteen years ago)

Air drumming to "My Neighbor Satan" is hard work.

― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 13:02 (sixteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

For the first time ever the first two Boris albums ("Absolutego & "Amplifier Worship") are being issued via Southern Lord on 180 gram double vinyl, deluxe gatefold packages!
Due to the enormous length of the songs as well as the originally crafted flow of the albums they were previously only available on compact disc. After much deliberation and clever editing the albums massive content was made ready for vinyl!
The albums artwork has also been given a tasteful overhaul by Southern Lord graphic wizard Stephen O'Malley.
We are beyond excitement to be able to offer the ultimate listening and visual experience of these essential Boris back catalog albums!

Boris - "Absolutego" 2xLP
The debut full length album from Boris. Heavier than time. Mailorder customers will receive the red vinyl version (limited to 1,000 pressed) $20 each

Boris - "Amplifier Worship" 2xLP
The second album from Japans' most eclectic and heavy band ever! They took the bludgeon of the first album and crafted it into song structures creating a often imitated blue print for band to follow in the future! Essential! Mailorder customers will receive the green vinyl version (limited to 1,000 pressed) $20 each

Both Boris lps can be purchased together for a discounted price of $36!
The "Amplifier Worship" 2xLP along with the Boris-Amp Worship shirt can be purchased for a discounted price of $32!

http://www.southernlord.com/images/promo/boris_ag_promo.jpg http://www.southernlord.com/images/promo/boris_ag_labels_promo.jpg
http://www.southernlord.com/images/promo/boris_aw_promo.jpg http://www.southernlord.com/images/promo/boris_aw_labels_promo.jpg
http://www.southernlord.com/index2.php

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:54 (fifteen years ago)

Finally looking at discogs to see what it says, which is that the following tracks on Variations are new recordings:

Korosu
Rainbow
A Bao A Qu
Naki Kyoku
1970

Plus "Farewell" is on CD for the first time (at least at full length?). Plus "Floor Shaker" is a little bit rare (and was new to me anyway, but I don't know Boris in depth)? These new versions are all worth hearing, but "Rainbow" and "Naki Kyoku" are standouts for the moment. I need to compare this 1970 to the other one, because I do seem to be enjoying it more in this version, as well.

A U.S. release would be nice.

― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 19 July 2010 18:22 (fifteen years ago)

I'm surprised I still haven't really looked into Corrupted. Japanese band singing in Spanish? But I suspect they will be too truly metal for me.

― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 19 July 2010 18:23 (fifteen years ago)

Amazing band

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 19 July 2010 18:31 (fifteen years ago)

haven't really been keeping up with boris anymore so I hadn't heard about variations. have to admit the kurihara presence has me interested.

and I love the albums, but the absolutego/amp worship seem fairly pointless. wouldn't flipping sides four times kill the flow for both? (esp. absolutego)

corrupted are pretty amazing, yeah.

― original bgm, Monday, 19 July 2010 19:37 (fifteen years ago)

that should read "...the absolutego/amp worship vinyl reissues seem fairly pointless." urg.

― original bgm, Monday, 19 July 2010 19:40 (fifteen years ago)

Seriously, Corrupted are incredible but "truly metal" might get in the way.

― Hey Jabulani! Pope of four four two. (aldo), Monday, 19 July 2010 21:06 (fifteen years ago)

I need to compare this 1970 to the other one, because I do seem to be enjoying it more in this version, as well.

WELL i need to hear this. 1970 is the best thing by boris i have heard, and one of the most rocking songs i have heard. the rest of that album absolutely pales in comparison to this track.

― marc iv, Monday, 19 July 2010 22:17 (fifteen years ago)

listened, if you think this new, funky version of 1970 is an improvement on the old, mega-rockin one, well then i don't trust your opinion.

― marc iv, Monday, 19 July 2010 22:31 (fifteen years ago)

I'm usually not into mega-rockin things so you probably shouldn't trust my opinion.

― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 19 July 2010 22:36 (fifteen years ago)

I'm listening to something on youtube, and:

TheJactador
2 months ago
no cantan en español soy de uruguay y no se entiende una cagada
TheJactador 2 months ago
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Rodav92Metal616
2 months ago
@crassisdead I'm chilean, spanish is my mother tongue. This band DON'T sing in spanish... I don't fuckin' understand any word they say. Even, the title of their albums are writen in a so bad spanish. By the way, I love death doom metal.
Rodav92Metal616 2 months ago
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Goma2
2 months ago
Im spanish and I cant understand a fucking single word. Badass band anyway

― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 19 July 2010 23:33 (fifteen years ago)

Anyone know what's at the Boris merch stand these days? Seeing them tonight...

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 16:06 (fifteen years ago)

I have most everything released thru 2008 or so. May pick up the Variations CD/DVD, Torche/Boris split CD, or anything else new-ish that's for sale.

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 16:06 (fifteen years ago)

More importantly has anyone heard the stuff they've recorded with Ian Astbury yet? Gonna be fun. I hope.

Oh yes definitely. Picked this up at the show tonight (which was AWESOME btw, as usual) and played it on the way home and it's a blast. Not really a big Cult fan myself but I like this collaboration, it's an obvious stylistic match once you hear it.

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Thursday, 29 July 2010 05:12 (fifteen years ago)

Also picked up the Variations CD, which I'll play soon. Didn't have deep enough pockets for the Golden Dance Classics split (with, uh, 9DW?), the Torche/Boris split, the Japanese version of Smile... the list goes on.

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Thursday, 29 July 2010 05:13 (fifteen years ago)

Are the Japanese versions of Pink, Rainbow, etc. different in any way from the US releases (similar to the Smile fiasco)?

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Thursday, 29 July 2010 05:13 (fifteen years ago)

yes, different mixes (and better)

i still need the japanese vinyl of Smile.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 29 July 2010 15:17 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I had a dream I was in a coffee shop, or something like that, and I had my own (fairly large) boom-box with me and I was blasting Boris. Nobody seemed to mind. I remember the bass standing out in particular. I remember feeling slightly self-conscious about my age.

― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 13:19 (fifteen years ago)

four months pass...

This version of "Rainbow" on Variations is great. You are missing out if you miss it.

― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 30 December 2010 15:10 (fifteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

good news from the inoxia records email list :o

Coming On Mar.16th!!!!!
Boris / New Album
Full album after 3 years!
More info in next newsletter.

― the new mordant & zingy ilxor persona (ilxor), Sunday, 23 January 2011 18:32 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58GNGRHlOEE

― MarkoP, Saturday, 12 February 2011 16:54 (fifteen years ago)

cover art reminds me of vespertine

o_O at the house/techno opening, little shoegazy though, kinda reminds me of seefeel? not my fav boris... sounds a bit blonde redhead or something. which is fine, but not the reason i listen to boris, you know? not really an ounce of metal/doom/drone in this whole track

people who thought Smile was a falling-off from Amp Worship, Akuma, Pink etc. are gonna shit bricks when they hear this

― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Saturday, 12 February 2011 18:12 (fifteen years ago)

i miss heavy sludgey Boris

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 13:49 (fifteen years ago)

HOLY SHIT

http://pitchfork.com/news/41593-boris-to-release-two-albums-on-the-same-day

― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 16:17 (fifteen years ago)

I'm not into "Partyboy" (though I don't mind it), but I'm still excited about these two new albums. Also, love the discographic confusion.

― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 16:42 (fifteen years ago)

leee will love this

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 18 February 2011 04:47 (fifteen years ago)

Official BORIS Statement From Southern Lord

Contrary to previous reports, Southern Lord Recordings will not be releasing a new album by BORIS entitled Heavy Rocks. Southern Lord released BORIS' Heavy Rock Hits, Volumes 1-3 as a 7" vinyl series/and digital download in 2009, which can be ordered here.

Stay current with all things BORIS-related at the band's official website: http://www.inoxia-rec.com/boris

Stay tuned for more Southern Lord Recordings updates.

― NYCNative, Saturday, 19 February 2011 01:06 (fifteen years ago)

well heavy rocks isnt supposed to be on SL so there may still be an album of that name. You can trust Boris to piss their fans around though. Remember the Vein debacle?

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, 19 February 2011 18:03 (fifteen years ago)

seven months pass...

where the heck is the thread for the new corrupted album. that shit is out of this world mang! Boris can suck a dick (not really, but this new corrupted is way better than annything Boris have done since 05). I've been listening to the new album all day and I just do not know how I am going to go back Tod regular music.

― marc iv, Saturday, 24 September 2011 23:20 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

Smile is hilarious at times. There are points where they are totally puncturing the pretensions of rock. They are completely full of shit with the psychedelic mumbling and stuff, and I think it's on purpose. It still ends up in sublime, unironic territory as it goes on.

― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Monday, 12 November 2012 15:26 (thirteen years ago)

I guess I'm just not sure people appreciate how funny parts of this album are, especially the first few tracks maybe.

― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Monday, 12 November 2012 15:27 (thirteen years ago)

And I'm very picky about funny music. I don't particularly value humor in music, but here I like it.

― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Monday, 12 November 2012 15:28 (thirteen years ago)

Wake up man, and put a few sentences together at the same time.

― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Monday, 12 November 2012 15:28 (thirteen years ago)

two months pass...

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/555213_528840910482558_855161152_n.jpg

― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 20:14 (thirteen years ago)

I haven't heard this yet, but for the benefit of those not sitting at a library's reference desk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydPNDv46ehA

― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 25 January 2013 01:13 (thirteen years ago)

Ah thank you, I unduly ignored this the other day.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 26 January 2013 20:52 (thirteen years ago)

That is stunning.

― SOPA Middleton (Leee), Saturday, 26 January 2013 21:12 (thirteen years ago)

That it is. It's not a big change from the original per se but it's a hell of an extension of it. My burblings on same.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 26 January 2013 21:26 (thirteen years ago)

Not sure I want to hear the Shonen Knife cover of "When You Sleep" though.

― questino (seandalai), Sunday, 27 January 2013 00:04 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

When I finally listened to that MBV cover, I was not into it, but then I've never been an MBV fan. Glad to see a quintessential fan like Ned enjoying the Boris version though. That black and white cover I posted is from a Boris album that I think just came out, or is very close to being released.

― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 4 March 2013 16:45 (thirteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Koruimizu is great.

― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 05:53 (thirteen years ago)

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