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.
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Friday, 9 August 2013 15:45 (ten years ago) link
"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!'"
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 9 August 2013 19:08 (ten years ago) link
How many rock bands as good or better are there, among Boris's contemporaries? Not very many.
― We are all Hannah Cho now (_Rudipherous_), Sunday, 1 December 2013 05:48 (ten years ago) link
they didn't release a really good record for at least 5 years so..
― nostormo, Sunday, 1 December 2013 08:39 (ten years ago) link
the new album rules, maybe my favorite of theirs since smile. the poppier songs are gorgeous and sort of have an... emo feel?
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:11 (ten years ago) link
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?
― sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 03:39 (ten years ago) link
maybe more transparently than ever, or something
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 05:04 (ten years ago) link
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 1New Noise Literacy 003“urban dance"
1. un, deux, trois2. surrender3. choreographer4. endless5. game of death
FAS-04/NNL003
boris new album 2New Noise Literacy 004"warpath”
1. midgard schlange2. behind the owl3. dreamy eyed panjandrum4. voo-vah
FAS-05/NNL004
boris new album 3New Noise Literacy 005"asia"
1. terracotta warrior2. ant hill3. 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
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 May 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link
the lithium cover is so bad.
― soyrev, Saturday, 16 May 2015 15:57 (nine years ago) link
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 15:59 (nine years ago) link
It really is. Maybe they hate Nirvana.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 May 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link
It's no "Sometimes," but I think it's more boring than awful. The slow-mo chorus is great.
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Saturday, 16 May 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link
― 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.
― meaty, desperate, and honest about the world we live in (ultros ultros-ghali), Sunday, 17 May 2015 13:36 (nine years ago) link
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
― soyrev, Monday, 18 May 2015 00:18 (nine years ago) link
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.
― meaty, desperate, and honest about the world we live in (ultros ultros-ghali), Monday, 18 May 2015 12:38 (nine years ago) link
i liked a bit of Noise but it's nowhere close to the variety, cohesion and fun of New Album: Daymare Edition *imo*
― soyrev, Monday, 18 May 2015 17:10 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtQb9x0M0oUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-YyhbfcpgY
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 8 January 2016 16:35 (eight years ago) link
Boris track stops, butthe drone keeps coming from myhumidifier.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 22:00 (seven years ago) link
did anybody get the Pink deluxe reissue?
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 25 September 2016 03:20 (seven years ago) link
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.
― meaulnes, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 08:14 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmK_EQWoorM
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 9 September 2019 07:46 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ef8KUvTUcAANsI3?format=jpg&name=small
― just sayin, Friday, 21 August 2020 11:21 (three years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 October 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 3 December 2020 22:12 (three years ago) link
Yeah agreed -- a thrilling album.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 December 2020 22:23 (three years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 3 December 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link
New album in January
https://boris.bandcamp.com/album/w
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 15:23 (two years ago) link
And new single now, with a rather good cover version
https://boris.bandcamp.com/album/no-l
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 11 December 2021 19:36 (two years ago) link
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
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Saturday, 11 December 2021 19:42 (two years ago) link
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.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 17:49 (two years ago) link
And a new new one announced
https://boris.bandcamp.com/album/heavy-rocks-2022
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 15:08 (two years ago) link
Said new album fucking rules, of course.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 August 2022 02:37 (one year ago) link
I agree. This is great. All these 'Heavy Rocks' are imo
― gman59, Friday, 19 August 2022 15:13 (one year ago) link
Weird that the 2002 one hasn't gotten a formal rerelease yet. (Glad I have a rip, of course.)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 August 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link
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!
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 22:16 (one year ago) link
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.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 06:47 (one year ago) link
I'm hoping for some sort of physical release for Fade.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 16:04 (one year ago) link
Hello, per PR email just now:
Boris To Release Heavy Rocks (2002) Reissue via Third Man Records, Announce Tour with MelvinsThe album, never-before-released on vinyl or digital formats, will be available 8/18 (DL) and 9/8 (CD/LP).
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 June 2023 14:53 (one year ago) link
Also doing a tour of that album with Melvins (who are doing Bullhead).
August 24 Los Angeles, CA @ Belasco TheaterAugust 25 Pomona, CA @ Glass HouseAugust 26 Fresno, CA @ Strummer’sAugust 27 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall August 28 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music HallAugust 29 Petaluma, CA @ Mystic TheatreAugust 31 Portland, OR @ Roseland TheaterSeptember 1 Seattle, WA @ The ShowboxSeptember 2 Spokane, WA @ Knitting FactorySeptember 3 Bozeman, MT @ The ELMSeptember 5 Fargo, ND @ The Hall at Fargo Brewing CompanySeptember 6 Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity TheaterSeptember 7 Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave IISeptember 8 Chicago, IL @ The MetroSeptember 9 St. Louis, MO @ Red FlagSeptember 11 Indianapolis, IN @ The VogueSeptember 12 Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid SchemeSeptember 13 Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews HallSeptember 14 Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom & TavernSeptember 15 Pittsburgh, PA @ RoxianSeptember 16 Maspeth, NY @ DesertFest NYCSeptember 18 Albany, NY @ Empire LiveSeptember 19 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock ClubSeptember 20 Bethlehem, PA @ MusicFest CafeSeptember 21 Philadelphia, PA @ Brooklyn Bowl PhiladelphiaSeptember 22 Washington, DC @ The Howard TheatreSeptember 23 Virginia Beach, VA @ Elevation 27September 24 Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s CradleSeptember 26 Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl NashvilleSeptember 27 Atlanta, GA @ Variety PlayhouseSeptember 28 Savannah, GA @ District LiveSeptember 29 Birmingham, AL @ SaturnSeptember 30 New Orleans, LA @ Tipitina’sOctober 2 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live - StudioOctober 3 Austin, TX @ MohawkOctober 4 Dallas, TX @ Granada TheaterOctober 5 Oklahoma City, OK @ Beer City Music HallOctober 6 Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s BallroomOctober 7 Lawrence, KS @ The BottleneckOctober 9 Denver, CO @ SummitOctober 11 Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine TheaterOctober 13 Tempe, AZ @ Marquee TheatreOctober 14 San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 June 2023 14:59 (one year ago) link
Double rerelease ahoy of two of the Merzbow collaborations, Klatter and 04092001:
https://borismerzbow.bandcamp.com/music
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 15:15 (eight months ago) link
Are those both new or reissues?
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 16:13 (eight months ago) link
reissues
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 16:13 (eight months ago) link