BeSt BORIS AlBuM PoLL

"Another important concept in the band's aesthetic is the idea of "uppercase" and "lowercase" Boris. According to Atsuo, if the band's name appears as "BORIS" on the record cover, the music is a relatively conventional dose of rock or metal. If the name appears as "Boris" or "boris," then, the music is most likely an experimental recording.[1]"
(wikipedia)

Absolutego

flood, u are winner

I did not realize they had this many records.

...there are even more,with the merzbow collabrations

my answer to my poll is "heavy rocks" btw

xxposts I did not know that!

Akuma no Uta is pretty great.
But Farewell is their finest moment?. That song is teh paradigm of awes.

The Merbow collabbs are fantastic. I Am The Walrus cover is a bit O_o tho

Absolutego sounds great on the bus at 5 am when it's 20 degrees outside, but I can't really stomach it elsewhere.

I feel like voting Pink will out me as a relative n00b, but I just like it better than Akuma.

But shit, Heavy Rocks is really fucking good.

More listening tonight, then voting.

I like Pink. How can you not? :)

yeah, i might also choose Pink in any other day.

i just saw these guys at a free instore 3hrs ago. so much smoke from the smoke machine, it didn't matter that i didnt' have a good view of them. one really long (45 min) song. started out with like 10minutes of ebow feedback and then into the riffing. pretty awesome

(ARRGHGHGH dudes, stop posting, i have to relog in every time you do!)

i haven't heard all of them, and it's been years since i've heard anything besides Rainbow, and i've listened to that one a LOT lately, so i choose that.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

ENVY I HAS IT

i hope it won't be a one song set in their ny shows...
i will demand my money back..

rainbow is not consistent enough.some good cuts,some mediocre

actually,in a way, Pink is like the best Niravan record they never recorded.

(nirvana)

Wow, no wonder I feel like people are always talking about these guys. What a productive lot!

Uh, the only one I've owned (and so have known quite well) was Absolutego, and that I ended up not caring for. Have heard some of _Amplifier Worship_ but nothing after. Am I a fool for not having explored beyond this? I don't really dig much stoner rock or sludge metal anymore, so I'll gladly skip any such records.
(No vote, obv)

You should listen to Rainbow then.

It's pretty tame.

Wow, interesting timing for this poll to appear, seeing as I'm starting to really get into this band!
I actually got Amplifier Worship in the mail yesterday and it's great. I don't think I can vote just yet because I've only heard Absolutego and Pink as well, but I love them too.
I actually thought I was over the sludge stuff too before I heard this band though. Can't wait to see them tomorrow!!

i said pink. once upon a time i would've voted for amplifier worship, but i listen to pink more than any of them so fuck it.

1998 Black: Implication Flooding (with Keiji Haino)

needs to be reissued. more than any of the other records that get issued in 50 different rip-off formats.

What? No Yello albums? They have a member called Boris after all....

BORIS HEAVY ROCKS

Don't know all those releases. Amplifier Worship is great, so I'll probably go with that. Altar has some good stuff and some bad stuff. If I remember correctly I like the last two tracks on Altar a lot, but the "pretty one" ("Sinking Belle"?) I think I could do without, or at least without the vocals/piano. I've only heard snippets of Pink, but I'd like to hear more.

They're playing in DC in a week or two, not sure if I'm gonna see them though.

Is Rainbow worth checking out if I really like Pink (not so much Altar)?

It really depends on my mood, but I ended up going with Akuma no Uta (most likely only because its the most recent I've listened to). Rainbow, Altar, Pink, Amplifier Worship, and Absolutego could all have been argued for.

saw them last night in SF with Kurihara - they were pretty good but seemed thrown off by some lame technical difficulties early in the show, never seemed to regain their footing after the first song

If Pink wins this, then you can fuck right off. It's a good album, I like it, but it's nowhere near their best. NOWHERE!
The true answer is one of these
1996 Absolutego
1998 Amplifier Worship
2000 Flood
2002 Heavy Rocks
2003 Akuma no Uta
2003 Boris At Last: -Feedbacker-
2005 Dronevil

Anything else and you're either having a laugh or a pitchfork reader who hasn't heard the other albums.
Archive release is awesome but it's live recordings. So I wouldn't vote for it, but I do play my cds often. They go for $200+ but I wouldn't part with them.

The true answer is one of these
1996 Absolutego
1998 Amplifier Worship
2000 Flood
2002 Heavy Rocks
2003 Akuma no Uta
2003 Boris At Last: -Feedbacker-
2005 Dronevil

or pink

bollocks

that is the sex pistols

they are another band

Anything else and you're either having a laugh or a pitchfork reader who hasn't heard the other albums.

the true answer is that they're kind of a mediocre band. let's not get all ANGRY METALHEAD about a band that really doesn't deserve it, unless you're going to be consistent and start posting angrily in food threads and shit.

also: PINK, not having a laugh, don't read pitchfork, welcome to cognitive dissonance.

take a deep breath

BUT I AM FILLED WITH INTERNET RAGE

I really like Amplifier Worship and plenty of other bits and pieces I've heard/got, but they've always been a band whom I'm just happy that they can keep on keepin' on without feeling the need to buy into the whole collector scum thing

Sorry, but "Dronevil" on vinyl played at a volume that is too loud for anything beats "Amplifier Worship." Maybe it was just the speakers, though.

the true answer is that they're kind of a mediocre band. let's not get all ANGRY METALHEAD about a band that really doesn't deserve it, unless you're going to be consistent and start posting angrily in food threads and shit.

-- GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Monday, 15 October 2007 17:42

who else does their peculiar mix of doom/stoner/punk?

not snark, actual curiousity.

no one - doesn't make them 'great' in my mind. who else sounds like gogol bordello? nobody, still a shit band.

who else does their peculiar mix of doom/stoner/punk?

Such an original band clearly chose a name like Boris out of thin air!

oh, right, the melvins.

"If the name appears as "Boris" or "boris," then, the music is most likely an experimental recording.[1]"

As on Akuma no Uta, but is that really one of their more experimental recordings?

haha touche

xxpost

btw there's TWO different versions of Vein (I have both) 1 of them is a 2 track "noise" version" and the other is a 12 track "hardcore" version.
The 2 track was mailed only to those people who live outside N America.
So that it would take a week for people to find out that Boris had screwed everyone over by making 2 different versions (i think there's 1100 of the US version and 400 of the Euro. I got lucky and got mine for what my friend paid for his which was the standard price. It's handy knowing people who can get me ltd us only stuff. This albumw as $100+ on ebay at the time.

oh and sorry for pissing off all you *Pink fans. I think I've been on the Southern Lord board for too long!

*Still not the best album though :)

definitely flood for me - its really the only boris album i like, which calls into question whether i really like boris

the keiji haino one or flood...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Flood was amazing live when i saw them play it this year. best 40 mins of a gig I've seen in a looong time.

If I am a fuck who likes Farewell from Pink the best, which LP do I listen to next?

Akuma no Uta.

it's got an awes cover too.
http://www.stonerrock.com/store/images/covers/ath-2761.jpg

Pink is so totally gonna win this you guys

feedbacker is fuckin huge but i like blackout on pink and a lot of the faster thrashin tracks with the dueling leads pump me up

voted feedbacker though

The 2 albums with Merzbow are missing too. But the live album is shit anyway. Terrible sound on it. I doubt anyone would've voted for either of them anyway. I don't see Vein getting (m)any.
The album with Sunn o))) I do enjoy a lot yet there's plenty who don't so I'll be interested to see if it gets any votes.

If I am a fuck who likes Farewell from Pink the best, which LP do I listen to next?

-- caek, Thursday, October 18, 2007 11:49 PM

akuma

other suggestions:

conqueror by jesu
The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw by pelican

BIG HOOS, that's what I meant when i posted "Akuma No Uta" below caek's post.

Not that I was voting for it.

But I think i did vote for it anyway.

right, i gathered, just seconding.

The songs on Heavy Rocks and Akuma No Uta are better than the songs of a similar style on Pink.
So You have to check out Heavy Rocks and Akuma No Uta.

exactly.

I'm glad someone agrees.

So… Nothing from them this year? How odd.

(I've only got Feedbacker, Pink and Akuma No Uta, and I think I like Akuma most).

Try Heavy Rocks then. But really, the early stuff is untouchable. They've released so much in the past few years the quality control has suffered.
There has been lots of ep's in the past year. Another lp with merzbow is out next week I think.

2 Songs that piss all over the garage rock type songs on Pink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t3dHC2qcBc Korosu from Heavy Rocks and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb14rWGRYp4 Ibitsu from Akuma No Uta

wish i could find some footage of dyna soar and Flood (apart from a 1 min excerpt of Flood)

Check all this footage anyway http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=boris+japan&search=Search

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb0xkgE97b8 Heavy Friends! from Heavy Rocks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzwK2IioX-c Naki Kyoku from Akuma No Uta

fuck yeah! Feedbacker live!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siwV1pFgIKs&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0zidXo7AgE&mode=related&search=boris%20live%20shimokitazawa%20shelter%20japan%20drone%20doom%20stoner%20sludge%20noise%20metal%20rock%20heavy%20rocks%20pink%20akuma%20no%20uta
watch all 9 parts. A track off Amplifier Worship here "huge"

Hah I just realised "Sun Baked Snow Cave" isn't in the poll either. Do you hate Merzbow? ;)

or the split 2xlp with Doomriders!

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/04/24/js24w_yeltsin_wideweb__470x343,0.jpg
http://www.tenisturkiye.com/v2/files/becker-boris-photo-.jpg

I didn't know both their surnames were Album, Geir.

Sun-baked Snow Cave is pretty cool, actually. I don't listen to it often, but when I'm in the mood it works.

It's the best of the with Merzbow releases.

Are we going to have a shock winner? Will justice be done and Heavy Rocks and Akuma No Uta beat Pink? Or is it a landslide for Pink?

only 6.25 hrs

i am metal with anticipation

Vein (hardcore version).

only 6.25 hrs

I predict Soundtrack from Film “Mabuta no Ura” will get 0 votes.
Solomon Volume 1 deserves a vote. That's one I don't own as I dont have $100+ to spend on one lp. 2/3 were quite good too actually.

lol timezones

xpost

DUDES THEY ARE PLAYING DOWN THE STREET TONIGHT and i didn't even know.

i will have to kiss ass to get off early. and i will do it.

they playing with oren ambarchi tonight? if so, pls report back, i've heard wildly different reports and am curious

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Bah

so guys should i go to the show in my full work uniform i.e. a suit

or should i remove the dress shirt to reveal the decidedly non-metal purple "march for women's lives" shirt underneath

u___u

so guys should i go to the show in my full work uniform i.e. a suit
or should i remove the dress shirt to reveal the decidedly non-metal purple "march for women's lives" shirt underneath
-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, October 19, 2007 6:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

how was the show?
i went to see Caribou next door, then caught Boris for like 4 songs (door guy let me in for free!) - they are much more "epic" live than i imagined, all the smoke everywhere, and the posturing; it was almost like they were on stage playing Guitar Hero to a Boris record

(not my thing i guess)

akuma no uta not winning is bullshit

I saw them in Bristol back in July. It was excellent and, yes, pretty epic and stagey, even in the small, oddly shaped bar they were playing. Drummer stage diving off the stack into the crowd during the final feedback squall was a particular highlight.

Glasgow was the only gig of the tour where Atsuo didn't stage dive! We did get a thank you from Wata though. The last track they played, Flood, really is the best 40 mins of a concert ever though.

Hari saw Boris play england the year before (no scottish date) and I have friends who travelled to leeds a few years back when they played Feedbacker.

i missed this thread the first time, and may not have voted anyway since i've only heard three of the records.

but between 'pink' and 'heavy rocks', both of which i own, 'heavy rocks' seems to stand out as the superior release. in fact, it sort of feels like all the boris i need. i much prefer the slower grooving stuff to the faster material though.

between 'pink' and 'heavy rocks', both of which i own, 'heavy rocks' seems to stand out as the superior release.

i like the sound of 'sludgy'. so i guess absolutego should be the next port of call

how was the show?
i went to see Caribou next door, then caught Boris for like 4 songs (door guy let me in for free!) - they are much more "epic" live than i imagined, all the smoke everywhere, and the posturing; it was almost like they were on stage playing Guitar Hero to a Boris record

(not my thing i guess)

-- stephen, Saturday, October 20, 2007 2:41 PM

it was a great show! favorite i saw last year.

Get Absolutego,Flood, Amplifier Worship and Akuma No Uta. Then move onto Feedbacker and Dronevil.

saw Boris at ATP festival in december, abiding memory is of one tune sounding like a very slow version of 'The Final Countdown' by Europe.

cheers herman

The Solomon lps are awesome but sadly expensive(i dont even have the 1st).
Archive cds are terrific but might cost you $200 so just download them when you get Solomon 1 2 and 3. There's 2 versions of Vein so d/l them too unless you can get them cheap.

I hate their single-track CDs (Absolutego, Flood). The new one is really good - I have both the U.S. and Japanese versions, and they really are totally different albums. I also like Pink and Heavy Rocks, and Amplifier Worship is pretty good. Still haven't heard Akumo No Uta or the Haino collaboration.

I don't get why people put Akuma on such a pedestal. I think Akuma & Pink do similar things, and I think Pink does them better.

There might be another day within the next decade that I feel like hearing Absolutego again. But I finally heard Heavy Rocks, holy crap! Great stuff, I never even knew about that album. It's not even listed on AMG. If you look under singles, it lists Japanese Heavy Rock Hits, Vol. 1 to be released on Southern Lord on 9/29. Is it the same thing? There's nothing about it on the Southern Lord site, and nothing else comes up about the album on google.

Still no info on possibly Heavy Rocks reissue. Not one Amazon seller has it. Someone in Spain is selling it on Gemm for $165. Ridiculous.

If Feedbacker is my favorite and Akuma drives me nuts, what do I need next? Flood? I have and like Dronevil too...

Flood and Absolutego

Amplifier Worship

I'm glad to see folks checking out Heavy Rocks and realising it pisses all over the pitchfork approved Pink and Smile albums.

If you look under singles, it lists Japanese Heavy Rock Hits, Vol. 1 to be released on Southern Lord on 9/29. Is it the same thing? There's nothing about it on the Southern Lord site, and nothing else comes up about the album on google.

You asked:

http://blog.southernlord.com/?p=210

akuma no uta not winning is bullshit

― latebloomer, Saturday, October 20, 2007 9:33 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

Picked up the 1st "Heavy Rock Hits" 45 the other day. Doesn't sound a damn thing like Heavy Rocks. Sounds like the band actually playing the kind of fucked up heavy pop that Kurihara producerized em into on the Japanese version of Smile. Good but not great.

Ishihara. You Ishihara produced Smile. Pretend I said that.

ishihara and kurihara were both in white heaven, bro, it's okay to confuse them.

unless you don't like white heaven

So it got confirmed. Too bad they spelled his name wrong...

Boris Collaboration With Ian Asbury Announced

Southern Lord proudly announces an incredible collaboration between label artists Boris and Ian Asbury of The Cult and The Doors! This finely-crafted four-song mini release, simply entitled BXI, was tracked and mixed in Tokyo in late April. Asbury's vocals are a perfect match for Boris's straightforward, laid-back, but still raw and imaginative songwriting constructed for the EP; another intriguing display within the band's ever-morphing, extensive résumé of releases, tours and collaborations.

To see official CD, LP and digital release this September via Southern Lord, BXI will showcase the already unclassifiable rock of Boris in an entirely new light, and shows a new side one of rock and roll's most notorious singers. The release features three new original tracks, as well as a cover of The Cult's song "Rain", ethereally vocalized by Boris guitarist Wata. Art and design for the release was commissioned to Stephen O'Malley (Ideologic.org, SUNNO))), etc.).

Pitchfork briefly interrogated Boris drummer Atsuo about this collaboration this week. Check out this exclusive piece on the EP and find out how this collaboration came to light: http://pitchfork.com/news/39000-boris-team-with-the-cults-ian-astbury/

This past weekend, Ian Asbury made an unannounced appearance with Boris at the band's performance at Sydney, Australia's Vivid LIVE appearance, blowing fans away with this unexpected set which showcased some of the material from the BXI EP as well as a cover of the classic "The End", by The Doors.

BXI EP Track Listing:
1. Teeth and Claws
2. We are the Witches
3. Rain
4. Magickal Child

Beat me to posting this by 4-5 minutes, damn you, Ned.

That said: EXCITING!!!!!!!

Go Asbury Rams!

http://rlv.zcache.com/asbury_rams_high_school_albertville_alabama_tshirt-p235147047544180924u34v_400.jpg

Ian Asbury of The Cult and The Doors!

Giving a listen to the EP now -- first couple of songs don't quite work for me, comes across as Astbury fronting a band trying to be the Cult. The "Rain" cover is pleasant, though, and the last one is the best, all of Astbury's typical bravura over a big melodramatic slow burn, sounds like it should be the end of a movie.

I bought this last night at the Boris show. And I like it. And I don't particularly enjoy the Cult, so it works on a different level and I'm not sure how. Cover song's great. Fun little stopgap EP, I suppose!

Am seeing Boris tonight. Wonder if they'll play this (actually called "Floor Shaker")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3UOagrgS4M

All I wanna do is doom-a-doom-doom-doom up the room-room.

great show. michio kurihara killed it every damn time

oh, Kurihara is on this tour too? is he like, an "official member" now or something? shit, I would have went tonite if i knew Kurihara was there. Otherwise Boris do nothing for me

I'm pretty sure he's an official member at least of the touring band. He's been there the last three times I've seen them.

Yup, he's been touring with them since the first time I saw Boris in 2007.

So would this BXI EP have been better with a different guest vocalist? I was trying to come up with another frontman who could have done a better job - Glenn Danzig, Chris Cornell - but I think the songs are just weak.

Yup, I'd say it's the songwriting. Last song's decent, and the "Rain" cover is pretty good, but the rest is throwaway.

rain is great

Kinda feel like we should do an epic re-poll w/ the collabs and new releases included.

agree, but gotta give folks some time to digest the new albums!

i might actually vote for Smile tbh, fantastic album—gonna play it now in fact

really wanna check out the Attention Please album

I've been binging lately. Might have to with the original Heavy Rocks, but I like both new records.

I have the two new ones arriving this week—probably today—can't wait

anyone heard 'New Album'?

I've heard all three; to me they go Attention Please > New Album > Heavy Rocks.

UH

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=494958367204146&set=a.186842614682391.42777.186837654682887&type=1

Or as I posted on my Tumblr:

http://nedraggett.tumblr.com/post/35076271748/to-quote-the-fb-post-boris-next-release-my

they are playing bristol sometime soon (unless i already missed it!)

have been thinking re going along - but haven't they changed their style with recent releases ?

A bit but not that much. Go, and I'll buy you a beer there.

That was a litt e misleading in that at first I thought Boris was recording an entire Loveless tribute by themselves a la Japancakes. Still I'm actually quite the sucker for Japanese tribute albums, since they often tend to have a least one really off the wall interpretation on them and it's been a while since I've seen any new ones arise.

yeah but by the time i shared the status with ned I had realised it was only the one song. I must admit I would have loved it if they had done the whole album.

On the other hand, Shonen Knife also contribute a song on there, which seems a bit strange.

Explains why Takeshi and Atsuo look so femme in that middle pic.

Been re-listening to Akuma No Uta and Pink a lot in the last few weeks and I've enjoyed them a hell of a lot. It's been a while. I didn't keep up after Pink - which of the last few albums are most worth my time and money please?

Oh I have Rainbow and Altar as well. I should find them in "the box" in the attic.

What is with all these 2011 albums?

Smile [Japanese version, please] is great. I never got into any of those three albums that all came out at the same time, but I was happy when "Pary Boy" came on unexpectedly when I was listening to a failed compilation of mostly year end favorites I had put together. I still haven't heard the album that came out this year.

Second the Japanese version of Smile, a less extreme and more poppy version of Akuma and Pink but still heavy and Satan worshipping.

Never bothered much with the 2011 trilogy, but if you like '80s thrash, the full version of "Czechoslovakia" is hella worth tracking down.

"Pary Boy" of course should have been "Party Boy."

"Pary Boy" looks more like a Butthole Surfers title: "No it's really supposed to be 'Pary Boy!'"

How many rock bands as good or better are there, among Boris's contemporaries? Not very many.

they didn't release a really good record for at least 5 years so..

the new album rules, maybe my favorite of theirs since smile. the poppier songs are gorgeous and sort of have an... emo feel?

been leaning in that direction since akuma no uta, imo, but i haven't heard the new one, so maybe you mean in a new way?

maybe more transparently than ever, or something

Three new albums from Boris, plus a collaboration with a Japanese metal band (I think I read this is cassette only), and a Nirvana cover.

boris new album 1
New Noise Literacy 003
“urban dance"

1. un, deux, trois
2. surrender
3. choreographer
4. endless
5. game of death

FAS-04/NNL003

boris new album 2
New Noise Literacy 004
"warpath”

1. midgard schlange
2. behind the owl
3. dreamy eyed panjandrum
4. voo-vah

FAS-05/NNL004

boris new album 3
New Noise Literacy 005
"asia"

1. terracotta warrior
2. ant hill
3. talkative lord vs silence master

FAS-06/NNL005

available on merch table!
from may 2nd

https://www.facebook.com/borisheavyrocks/posts/970416566324988

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmc656czwYA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dhor5gj8E4

the lithium cover is so bad.

and hey not this poll's fault for not presaging it but sorry y'all New Album (Daymare version) is Boris' best album 8-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Album

they're at their best as an anime band

the lithium cover is so bad.

It really is. Maybe they hate Nirvana.

It's no "Sometimes," but I think it's more boring than awful. The slow-mo chorus is great.

and hey not this poll's fault for not presaging it but sorry y'all New Album (Daymare version) is Boris' best album 8-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Album

they're at their best as an anime band

― soyrev, Saturday, 16 May 2015 16:59 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is the only Boris album I really like, which is odd considering how pop it is. Stuff like Pink is OK but too cheesy rawkin for my tastes, I try to listen to Flood from time to time but I don't think I have the patience for it.

i really like a lot of their other stuff (probably akuma no uta most), but the daymare version of that record (i.e. the one that begins with "flare") is just so virtuoso and fun. i'm bummed that the far more common 'tearbridge' version's sequencing (and i think alternate mixes at times, iirc?) mess it up

I forgot that I liked Noise last year which has a fair bit of rawk on it, my own opinions don't make sense sometimes.

i liked a bit of Noise but it's nowhere close to the variety, cohesion and fun of New Album: Daymare Edition *imo*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtQb9x0M0oU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-YyhbfcpgY

Boris track stops, but
the drone keeps coming from my
humidifier.

did anybody get the Pink deluxe reissue?

saw them play pink on the first night of the tour in san diego when i was visiting this summer. it was near enough note perfect with the LP. incredible experience.

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

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ef8KUvTUcAANsI3?format=jpg&name=small

Worth noting that Boris have really started to go in on their Bandcamp page this year; they had a few things up for a long while but after No came out they started adding more and more from the past to the site:

https://boris.bandcamp.com/

Tomorrow vein, präparat and eternity will be added.

There's a bunch of Boris threads so I'm not sure the most appropriate one, but it's been bumped most recently so...

I mentioned this in the Rolling Metal thread, but the new collaboration with Merzbow, 2R0I2P0 is easily one of the best things I've heard from them in a long time. In addition to some other songs, they take on some songs from LOVE & EVOL, and it really hits on the strengths of both. There is a moment during "EVOL" where Merzbow's got a bed of his usual noise grinding away and a soaring guitar solo starts to pierce through, it's great.

Yeah agreed -- a thrilling album.

I'm genuinely shocked by how good it is. I feel like they've been increasingly hit or miss in recent years and that my days of being absolutely wowed by them were in the past, but happily proven wrong with this one.

New album in January

https://boris.bandcamp.com/album/w

And new single now, with a rather good cover version

https://boris.bandcamp.com/album/no-l

there was a new single last month too, kind of a tie-in with a boris guitar pedal that earthquaker devices just launched

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTpFrv_Cr-o

New one, W, is great! Love how it builds from like this almost subdued, hazy dreampop vibe and builds the noise and sludge as it goes along.

And a new new one announced

https://boris.bandcamp.com/album/heavy-rocks-2022

Said new album fucking rules, of course.

I agree. This is great. All these 'Heavy Rocks' are imo

Weird that the 2002 one hasn't gotten a formal rerelease yet. (Glad I have a rip, of course.)

Little late in getting to it but, Ned and gman are correct, the new Heavy Rocks fucking rules.

Would love a rerelease of the 2002 one!

was delighted to discover "rainbow" was available to stream after i'd lost my cd copy and couldn't bear to break the seal on my vinyl copy.

also lol, but perfectly in character with the band, that there are two different boris bands with selective sections of their discography on spotify.

I'm hoping for some sort of physical release for Fade.

Hello, per PR email just now:

Boris To Release Heavy Rocks (2002) Reissue via Third Man Records, Announce Tour with Melvins
The album, never-before-released on vinyl or digital formats, will be available 8/18 (DL) and 9/8 (CD/LP).

Also doing a tour of that album with Melvins (who are doing Bullhead).

August 24 Los Angeles, CA @ Belasco Theater
August 25 Pomona, CA @ Glass House
August 26 Fresno, CA @ Strummer’s
August 27 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
August 28 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
August 29 Petaluma, CA @ Mystic Theatre
August 31 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
September 1 Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
September 2 Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory
September 3 Bozeman, MT @ The ELM
September 5 Fargo, ND @ The Hall at Fargo Brewing Company
September 6 Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater
September 7 Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave II
September 8 Chicago, IL @ The Metro
September 9 St. Louis, MO @ Red Flag
September 11 Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue
September 12 Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme
September 13 Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Hall
September 14 Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom & Tavern
September 15 Pittsburgh, PA @ Roxian
September 16 Maspeth, NY @ DesertFest NYC
September 18 Albany, NY @ Empire Live
September 19 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
September 20 Bethlehem, PA @ MusicFest Cafe
September 21 Philadelphia, PA @ Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia
September 22 Washington, DC @ The Howard Theatre
September 23 Virginia Beach, VA @ Elevation 27
September 24 Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
September 26 Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl Nashville
September 27 Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
September 28 Savannah, GA @ District Live
September 29 Birmingham, AL @ Saturn
September 30 New Orleans, LA @ Tipitina’s
October 2 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live - Studio
October 3 Austin, TX @ Mohawk
October 4 Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
October 5 Oklahoma City, OK @ Beer City Music Hall
October 6 Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom
October 7 Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck
October 9 Denver, CO @ Summit
October 11 Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater
October 13 Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
October 14 San Diego, CA @ House of Blues

Double rerelease ahoy of two of the Merzbow collaborations, Klatter and 04092001:

https://borismerzbow.bandcamp.com/music

Are those both new or reissues?

reissues

Really killer new song, "Cry" on the new Twins of Evil split LP. Sadly the Melvins track is just an inessential rework of a song from their latest album, but the Boris track is worth the (cheap!) price of admission.

https://www.shoxop.com/products/melvins-boris-twinsof-evil-cd