BORIS 黑胶唱片和CD

Review: The first of three albums from the Japanese post-everything auteurs titled Heavy Rocks, arrived in 2002 with the second and third installments coming in 2011 and 2022, respectively. These volumes served to allow the group to fully explore their heaviest tendencies with full abandon, and none are as adored or praised (or essential to own on vinyl) than the minimal orange adorned first entry. Plumbing the depths of psychedelic stoner rock, heaving sludge and cavernous doom metal, all whilst retaining accessible grooves and absurdly catchy riffage, this is Boris at their most abrasive, face-melting and imposing, while also serving as a solid entry point into their beastly 20+ album discography.

Review: The first instalment of the three-album cycle from Japanese post-everything auteurs Boris, titled Heavy Rocks, originally landed in 2002 with the second and third volumes arriving in 2011 and 2022, respectively. These projects offered the subversive trio a chance to fully explore and expand their heftiest tendencies with total sonic abandon, with none being more adored or praised (or vital to collect on vinyl) than the minimal orange adorned first entry. Plumbing the depths of psych stoner-doom with forays into heaving sludge metal, all whilst retaining catchy grooves and absurd riffage, this is Boris at their most abrasive, face-melting and imposing, while also serving as a solid entry point into their beastly 20+ album discography. This pressing also comes on orange vinyl for the extra aesthetic-bothered collectors.

Review: Originally conceived in 2019 during a tour with industrial hardcore purveyors Uniform, Japanese psychedelic noise-rock juggernauts Boris would invite their co-conspirators on stage to reimagine the trio's classic "Akuma no Uta" as part of their encore, with the resulting chemistry inspiring both acts to begin crafting a fully collaborative album. Many years of exchanging ideas from one home studio base to another has finally bore fruit in the form of the hideous yet glorious Bright New Disease. Combining almost every nuance of each group's genre-less machinations, the project swells and extends in every sonic direction from harsh walls of screeching noise to retrofitted Japanese D-beat hardcore, with time in between for aquatic, shoegazing serenity and mechanized industrial venom.

Review: 2006's Altar served as the long awaited musical meeting of minds between Japanese experimental psychedelic noise-rock trio Boris and Seattle robe-adorning drone metal behemoths Sunn O))). With an impressive collective of integral contributors such as Kim Thayil (Soundgarden), Joe Preston (Earth, Melvins, High On Fire), Phil Wandscher and Jesse Sykes, the project has gone on to become a grandiose display of oppressive, punishing, experimentalist metallic drone, crossing not only borders but oceans. This severely overdue 2xLP reissue comes courtesy of the incomparable Southern Lord, offering both the devout and newcomers alike a chance to finally experience this opus in its undiluted purity (and without having to indulge vinyl flippers).

Review: Altar initially arrived in 2006 as the long awaited sonic meeting of hideous minds between the Japanese psychedelic noise/post-rock trio Boris and Seattle based robe sporting drone metal monks Sunn O))). Featuring a dense roster of essential contributors such as Kim Thayil (Soundgarden), Joe Preston (Earth, High on Fire, Melvins), Phil Wandscher and Jesse Sykes, the album bore a monumental display of oppressive, challenging, experimentalist, metallic drone, crossing both borders and oceans in a collective consummate of punishing power. This long overdue 2xLP reissue comes courtesy of Southern Lord, who have finally provided both the faithful and relative newcomers alike a chance to experience the dense work in all of its undiluted purity (without having to break the bank or cave to price gougers).