We mentioned a while ago that Boris and Merzbow were working on an ambitious double LP called Gensho together, and now they’ve revealed a track. The premise of the album is that the first disc ...

Are you of the mind, that in the big scheme of things, the really big scheme of things, there are no accidents? That everything happens for a purpose? Call it synchronicity or a Shirley MacLaine cake ...

Hyrrokkin, the now-defunct avant rock trio from Ohio, did not overtly have much in common with the revered Japanese noise experimentalist Merzbow (né Masami Akita)… other than, of course, a shared ...

Calling Cuts Open by Merzbow (aka Masami Akita), Mats Gustafsson and Balázs Pándi their sotto voce record would be like saying you received a love tap from Mike Tyson. This is the trio's fifth release ...

The post Boris and Merzbow Announce New Collaborative Album 2R0I2P0, Share “Away from You”: Stream appeared first on Consequence of Sound. Like previous collaborations between the drone-doom pioneers ...

As much as he’s respected for the noise itself, experimental Japanese artist Merzbow is perhaps best known for his prolific noise record output. Merzbow scholars estimate there are over 10,000 Merzbow ...

Over the years, Japanese fuzz-metal greats Boris have crossed paths with Masami Akita, the veteran harsh-noise king known as Merzbow, a number of times. Boris and Merzbow are both from Japan, they're ...

Sometimes you read about an album on paper, especially a collaboration, and you immediately know if it’s going to fly or not. Japanese sludge doom metal band Boris teaming up again with Masami Akita, ...

In 1991, Melvins, the Pacific Northwestern fuzz-rock overlords, released their third album Bullhead. The opened it with a song called "Boris," a droning slow-trudge eight-minute epic that slowed its ...

With his collaborative album with Balázs Pándi and Mats Gustafsson just released, Joseph Burnett catches up with the enigmatic Japanese noise legend to discuss the making of the album, the modern ...