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Metal/Hard Rock, New Music, Psych, Video

JAPAN’S BORIS RELEASE NEW SINGLE AND ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM HEAVY ROCKS (2022)

BORIS, Japan’s finest exponents of extreme music have announced the release of their new album Heavy Rocks (2022), the latest in their series of Heavy Rocks albums and part of the celebration of their 30th anniversary. Once again they’ve thrown caution to the wind and dived deep into 70s rock and 80s metal with coruscating intensity. Check out the video clip below to hear the … Continue reading JAPAN’S BORIS RELEASE NEW SINGLE AND ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM HEAVY ROCKS (2022)

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Audio Stream, Guitar Rock, Metal/Hard Rock, New Music, News, Psych, Punk, shoegaze

NEWS: Boris Announce New Album ‘NO’ and Release Single ‘Loveless’

Japanese genre-destroyers Boris return with a new album, NO, due out July 3rd, self-released on Bandcamp. Check out the searing, careening distortion punk-fest that is ‘Loveless’. A message from BORIS:  “International borders are ‘closed’ now.  All kinds of anxieties, fear, sadness, anger, and hatred have arisen to drive the world apart.Everyone is in a process of trial and error, doing what they can to live.The … Continue reading NEWS: Boris Announce New Album ‘NO’ and Release Single ‘Loveless’

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Album Covers, Album Reviews, Audio Stream, Experimental, Guitar Rock, Metal/Hard Rock, Post-Rock / Instrumental, Psych, Stream

ALBUM REVIEW: Boris – Dear

Boris are now 25 years into a career that has stretched from the barren expanse of doom to hazy dream pop renderings and onto avant garde soundscapes and blistering, psychedelic punk rock. They hone in on a style and explore it to its logical extreme. On Dear they again hit the heavy button but this time they go deep into the detail, exploring both heaviosity … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Boris – Dear

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Album Covers, Audio Stream, Metal/Hard Rock, New Release, Psych

NEW MUSIC: Boris | Quicksilver (from forthcoming new LP Noise)

Boris are an incredible band who fuse, distort, bend and blend metal, psych, noise, punk and drone into one definitive sound. Live they are pummelling and hypnotic, on record they can be frustratingly indulgent or thrillingly visceral. ‘Quicksilver’ is the first taste of their new LP Noise which comes out on June 17th via Sargent House. Be prepared for seven minutes of tsunami-like waves of metallic and … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Boris | Quicksilver (from forthcoming new LP Noise)

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Metal/Hard Rock, MP3, Post-Punk, Psych

MP3: Boris | Riot Sugar – from the new album Heavy Rocks….

The new Boris album (well, one of a few …) Heavy Rocks is set to drop on May 24th and the first track off it has hit the blogosphere… take a listen/download Riot Sugar featuring Ian Astbury on backing vocals. Boris… such a fucking great band! MP3: Boris | Riot Sugar Continue reading MP3: Boris | Riot Sugar – from the new album Heavy Rocks….

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Guitar Rock, Metal/Hard Rock, News, Psych

NEWS + MP3: Boris to release 3 new albums…

Hot on the heels of their BXI collaboration with Ian Astbury, Japan’s brilliant Boris are set to release two albums on the same day – April 26th. Sargent House is a new label for Boris and they have the honour of releasing the new albums Heavy Rocks and Attention Please. They are also set to release a third New Album in Japan only which will feature new songs … Continue reading NEWS + MP3: Boris to release 3 new albums…

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News, Tour/Live

NEWS: Boris & Sunn O)) perform Altar live alongside BXI…

Good news for all you fans of Boris and Sunn O)) living near Brooklyn – The two lords of drone and ecxperimental metal are performing their album Altar for All Tomorrow’s Parties at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple on September 7th. Joining them will be Jesse Sykes And The Sweet Hereafter and for their debut US performance, BXI – the new collaboration between Boris and The … Continue reading NEWS: Boris & Sunn O)) perform Altar live alongside BXI…

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Live Reviews

REVIEW: NOISE NIGHT @ Opera House, Sydney 31/05/10

written by Chris Familton There was something exciting about attending a celebration of noise, drone and experimental music at the Opera House, a venue that normally hosts music and theatre of a more classical and structured form. Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson are to be congratulated for their Vivid Festival curatorial selections and the variety of music they have included across the event. On arrival … Continue reading REVIEW: NOISE NIGHT @ Opera House, Sydney 31/05/10

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News

NEWS: BORIS release ‘new’ album of Variations…

Those Japanese drone psych lords Boris have recorded a new album – Variations – of previously released tracks. The reason is that with Michio Kurihara now seemingly a permanent 4th member they decided to re-record the songs with his extra flavours added. It sounds magnificent, contains 13 tracks, is primarily their more rocking stuff and also includes a bonus 2 hour Live In Japan DVD… … Continue reading NEWS: BORIS release ‘new’ album of Variations…

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