Smother Magazine Band Spotlight: Boris

Smother Magazine Band Spotlight: Boris

Dark dangling participles of noisy rock is what this Japanese hard rock trio known simply as Boris offer up album after album. Experimental twists and turns around every avenue of creative heaviness seem to be second nature with this crafty group of relative unknowns. Boris pop and weave between psychedelic rock, proto punk, drone metal, and experimental full-blown jam sessions--sometimes as lengthy as a full 70 minutes. Somehow the group continues to surprise with every album, quietly releasing juggernauts on smaller metal labels and boasting a tremendous deep back catalog. Often compared to the likes of Earth and Sunn 0))), there's no doubt that Boris is at the top of the class of experimental heavy music. After years of turning heads in the underground Japanese scene, Boris has been making headway in the American heavy music scene in the last five years or so with releases on Southern Lord Records and other American imprints.

Selected Discography

Pink (2006) - Read the review
04092001 (2005)
Akuma No Uta (2005) - Read the review
Boris at Last Feedbacker (2003)
Heavy Rocks (2002)
Flood (2000)
Amplifier Worship (1998)
AbsoluteGo (1996)

Web site(s) to check out:

Official Site

Southern Lord Records