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Boris have added west coast dates to their 2018 tour.
More information and tickets here.
Dates:
AUG 15 San Diego, CA @ Casbah AUG 16 Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex (Sold Out) AUG 17 Las Vegas, NV @ Psycho Las Vegas AUG 18 Camarillo, CA @ Rock City Studios AUG 19 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent AUG 21 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge AUG 22 Seattle, WA @ Neumos AUG 24 New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge
Full article via CVLT Nation On the other side of the musical spectrum, another Japanese trio, joined by none other than Stephen O’Malley himself, came together for a one hour long droning spectacle in the form of their debut ‘Absolutego’. Seeing the wall of amps stretching over the entire Main Stage brought to mind a memory of another festival where terrified security guards, just before Electric Wizard came onto stage, started handing out earplugs to the front rows, telling people it might ‘get a bit loud’. Even though Boris‘ audience should’ve known what they were getting themselves into, some were still spotted without any ear protection. Ouch. The monstrous droning soundscapes they built from amp-feedbacking and ambient echoes reminded me how incredibly ahead of its time their music was some 20 odd years ago and how au courant and relevant it still sounded. Considering the band’s expanding musical exploration over the years, it was particularly fascinating to see in flesh where it all once started.
Boris have added a new show date in New York, NY – August 24 @ Le Poisson Rouge. Visit sargenthouse.com/boris for all show dates. Tickets HERE // Event page HERE
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Boris , who just finished Europe tour the other day , released a new video work.
One of the most celebrated tours that just took place was AMENRA and BORIS. Void Revelations caught the tour in Karlsruhe, Germany, and from the photos you can tell it was an intense affair!
Full photo essay via CVLT Nation
Full review by Gavin Brown via CVLT Nation
Amenra & Boris – Thekla, Bristol, UK February 14th 2018
The pairing of Belgian post-metal masters Amenra and experimental Japanese noise-makers Boris on this co-headlong European tour of which the setting of the Thekla in Bristol was the first date was always going to be a dream match for music lovers who revel in the beauty of noise, both bands ability to manipulate that into something beautiful and mystifying was an event that was not to be missed, especially if you were a diehard fan and the packed audience here tonight certainly witnessed something that can only be described as awe inspiring. There may have been some attendees who had come just for Boris or just for Amenra, and if there were, both would have discovered the parallels and similarities that both bands have and the musical kinship that they share. The main thing is that they are both cut from the same sonic cloth and both delivered a masterclass in glorious discordance.
This week, two metal titans – Boris of Japan and Amenraof Belgium – embark on a co-headlining tour of Europe. Both are bands known for their intense music and equally intense live shows – albeit in different ways – with a wealth of material behind them and a core of dedicated listeners. Boris celebrated their twenty-fifth anniversary last year with the album DEAR, a celebration of all things Boris, and a glorious final statement from the band. Amenra, too, are approaching their second decade as a band, maintaining a steady and consistent creative output through personal turmoil and band member side-projects. Last year’s Mass VI is as emotionally heavy and soul-bearing as any of the project’s works; more than any band, Amenra channel their strength through hardship. With the first date of the tour on the horizon, Takeshi of Boris and Colin H. van Eeckhout of Amenra kindly took the time to answer questions I had for them about their bands’ legacies, creative processes and their relationship with each other.
Full article via Pure Grain Audio.
More info @ sargenthouse.com/boris
Full article via ATTN:Magazine
I am forever captivated by Boris. I can’t think of many other bands that harness such a playful relationship with identity and legacy, either by releasing records that run against the trajectory of their previous work – such as those inexplicable turns into pop or bursts of psychedelic punk – or by tampering with their own discography, putting out drastically different versions of the same record, or recycling their own album titles to obscure all attempts to trace their chronology. If there’s one central facet to the Japanese trio, it’s the notion of “heaviness”: the stretching of heaviness across crumbling guitar drones, the blizzards of heaviness that collide in their collaborations with Merzbow…even the palpable absence of heaviness that carries their detours into quieter, more shoegazing territory.
Boris have been around for a couple decades, spreading their doom and gloom through demented speakers. From a heavy rock sound to pure bass-filled dread, this Tokyo-based band has honed their own form: where Sunn 0))) is soul-crushingly twisted, Boris crafts passages imbued with the excitement of guitarist Wata and vocalist Takeshi Ohtani (“Pink”).
On their recent release Dear, the band still look to their roots, implementing the essence of shoegaze (“Biotope”) and still rocketing a flair for doom (“The Power”). Blast Boris from your garage and bask in the glory of the low, low notes.
Full article by Dustin Ragucos via The Owl Mag
From the left Taichi (ENDON), Wata (Boris), Atsuo (Boris), Koki (ENDON) Photo by Yasuhiro Oohara
Interview by Rika Takagi via Ototoy INTERVIEW: Boris × ENDON
This tour that took place in a form crossing North America for about 7 weeks. ENDON experienced for the first time a long tour abroad with Boris who has performed numerous long tours abroad. Of course there was no doubt that it was an exciting tour for ENDON, but Boris said that the tour where the Japanese band took over abroad was the first time, Boris also looked back on themselves again. We will deliver valuable dialogues packed full of episodes that can not be heard, such as the state of the tour as well as live circumstances overseas and long tours.
