Boris (band)

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Boris

Background information
Origin	Tokyo, Japan
Genre(s)	Sludge metal Doom metal Stoner Metal Psychedelic Rock
Label(s)	Hydra Head Records Southern Lord Records Inoxia Records
Associated acts	Sunn O)))
Members
Atsuo Wata Takeshi

Boris is a Japanese band, known to regularly switch musical genres between albums. Genres the band have played so far include drone doom, stoner rock, psychedelic rock, noise, ambient music, sludge, and straight-ahead rock music.

Their name was taken from the Melvins song "Boris," from that band's album Bullhead.

Much of Boris's early work is firmly in the stoner rock and drone metal genres. Absolutego, for instance, has single guitar chords stretching past the 4-minute mark. Akuma no Uta marked a shift in tone, focusing on faster, more pop oriented songs with considerably less feedback than on earlier albums.

The band's latest album Pink was met with considerable critical praise, exposing many more to their current blend of drone and Motörhead-inspired jams.

Boris has collaborated with fellow Japanese artists Keiji Haino and Merzbow, and a collaboration with the U.S. drone/doom metal band Sunn O))), entitled Altar, was released on October 31, 2006.

[edit] Band members

Atsuo - drums and backing vocals (formerly lead vocals)
Wata - guitars
Takeshi - bass, guitars and vocals

[edit] Discography

Full-Lengths

Absolutego - 1996 Fangs Anal Satan (CD)
Amplifier Worship - 1998 Mangrove (CD; reissued by Southern Lord in 2003)
Flood - 2000 MIDI Creative (CD)
Absolutego - Special Low Frequency Version - 2001 Southern Lord (CD; Absolutego remastered with one bonus track)
Heavy Rocks - 2002 Quattro/UK Discs (CD)
Akuma No Uta - 2003 Diwphalanx (CD/LP ltd. 500 copies; reissued by Southern Lord in 2005, CD/picture disc ltd. 300 "Venom" style, 700 "Nick Drake" style)
Boris At Last: -Feedbacker- - 2003 Diwphalanx (CD; LP, 500 copies)

European version by Conspiracy Records (cd/picture disc 333 copies)

The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked - 2004 Kult Of Nihilow (LP, 550 copies)
Dronevil - 2005 Misanthropic Agenda (2LP, 1000 copies - 200 grey, 800 black)
Soundtrack from film "Mabuta No Ura" (Japan version) - 2005 Catune (CD)/Inoxia (LP, 600 copies)
Pink - 2005 Diwphalanx (CD/2LP with alternate audio, ltd. 500 copies)
Soundtrack from film "Mabuta No Ura" (World version) - 2005 Essence (CD, 1000 copies; deluxe box edition, 199 copies. Has a different tracklisting to the Japan version.)
The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked 2 - 2006 Conspiracy Records (LP, 1000 copies - 300 green, 700 orange)
The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked 3 - 2006 Conspiracy Records (LP, 1000 copies - 300 blue, 700 orange)
Vein - 2006 Important (LP, 1500 copies)
Dronevil Final - 2006 Inoxia (2xCD)
Pink - 2006 Southern Lord (CD/2LP ltd.4000 copies)

EPs

1970 - 2002 Inoxia (7", 500 copies)
A Bao A Qu - 2005 SuperFi (7", 524 copies)

Collaborations

Black: Implication Flooding (with Keiji Haino, live) - 1998 Inoxia
Megatone (with Merzbow) - 2002 Inoxia
04092001 (with Merzbow, live) - 2005 Inoxia (LP, 500 copies)
Sun Baked Snow Cave (with Merzbow) - 2005 Hydra Head
Altar (with Sunn O)))) - 2006 Southern Lord (CD/ltd. 2CD, 5000 copies/ltd. 3LP)
I Am the Walrus (with Merzbow) - 2006 Hydra Head (Not yet released)
Rainbow (with Michio Kurihara) - 2006 Pedal Records (CD)/ Inoxia Records (LP) (Not yet released)
Mellow Peak (with Merzbow) - 2006 Troubleman Records (Not yet released)

Split Recordings

With Barebones - 1996 Piranha/Fangs Anal Satan (10", 500 copies. Reissued in 1997 on CD with bonus live tracks, 1000 copies)
With Tomsk - 1997 Bovine (7")
With Choukoku No Niwa: More Echoes, Touching Air Landscape - 1999 Inoxia (CD; reissued by Inoxia 2006)
With The Dudley Corporation - 2003 Scientific Laboratories (7", 500 copies)