Japanese heavy rock legends Boris release new live video for »Nosferatou«; European & UK tour »Heavy Rock Breakfast« starts this month!
Japanese heavy rock legends Boris have released live video for the track »Nosferatou« from their latest album, »Heavy Rocks (2022)«, out on August 12th, 2022 via Relapse Records.
Tracklist:
01. She Is Burning
02. Cramper
03. My Name Is Blank
04. Blah Blah Blah
05. Question 1
06. Nosferatou
07. Ruins
08. Ghostly Imagination
09. Chained
10. (Not) Last Song
Courtesy of Relapse Records:
The legendary Boris celebrate a 30 year career as one of experimental music’s most forward-thinking, heavy, and innovative bands with the new album »Heavy Rocks (2022)«. Continuing their series of »Heavy Rocks« records, Boris once again channels the classic proto-metal sounds of the 70s into something all new.
The album, 10 pulse-pounding tracks, highlight the very trajectory of Boris and their storied career – from the driving, fuzzed out rock n’ roll opener »She Is Burning«, to the punk, raucous »My Name Is Blank«, Boris are heavier than ever before. »Question 1« is just kickass – d-beats give way to a doomed, spaced out and heavier-than-anything guitar wailing and feedback, before diving back into their Metal, sending the listener into a complete frenzy. This is unmistakably Boris, and this is the band at the height of their powers.
Photo by Miki Matsushima
Elsewhere on the record, a more daring, “out there” side of the band begins to shine on tracks such as the aptly titled »Blah Blah Blah«, the industrial »Ghostly Imagination« and the truly wild »Nosferatou”. Noisy passages (not unlike prior collaborations with legendary artists like Merzbow,) collide with visceral vocal howls while a relentless, almost Zornian-saxophone shreds harder than any guitar solo ever could.
In 2022, Boris cement what Heavy Rock means to them, and release one of their most captivating records to date.
Order »Heavy Rocks (2022)« here: bit.ly/boris-heavyrocks2022
Digital downloads/streaming: orcd.co/boris-heavyrocks2022
Songs & words by Boris.
Recorded by Atsuo at Sound Square 2021.
Produced by suGar Yoshinaga.
Mixed and mastered by Koichi Hara.
Boris is:
Atsuo – Vocals, Drums & Percussion
Wata – Vocals, Guitar, Piano & Echo
Takeshi – Vocals, Bass & Guitar
Additional musicians:
suGar Yoshinaga – Vocals, Guitar & Synth
Kazuya Wakabayashi – Sax on Track 1, 4 & 6
European & UK tour 2023 with special Guests Pupil Slicer and Asunojokei, April 29th – June 6th.
»Heavy Rock Breakfast« Tour:
29/04 – DE Karlsruhe, Dudefest / Jubez ✜
30/04 – FR Paris, Les Cuizines Chelles ✜
02/05 – IR Cork, Cyprus Avenue ✜
03/05 – IE Dublin, Button Factory ✜
04/05 – UK Belfast, Black Box ✜
05/05 – UK Glasgow, Room 2 ✜
06/05 – UK Settle, Victoria Hall ✜
07/05 – UK London, Desertfest
09/05 – DE Aschaffenburg, Colos-Saal ✜
10/05 – BE Antwerp, Trix ✜
11/05 – NL Haarlem, Patronaat ✜
12/05 – DE Hamburg, Hafenklang ✜
13/05 – DK Copenhagen, A Colossal Weekend / Vega ✜
15/05 – NO Oslo, Bla ✜
16/05 – NO Oslo, Bla ✜
17/05 – SE Stockholm, Debaser ✜
19/05 – FI Helsinki, Sonic Rites ♞
20/05 – EE Tallinn, Sveta ♞
21/05 – LV Riga, Tu Jau Zini Kur ♞♛
22/05 – LT Vilnius, SODAS 2123 ♞
23/05 – PL Warsaw, Proxima ♞
24/05 – PL Krakow, Kwadrat ♞
25/05 – CZ Brno, Kabinet Muz ♞
26/05 – AT Innsbruck, Heart of Noise Festival
27/05 – CH Fribourg, Fri-Son ♞
28/05 – IT Turin, Jazz Is Dead
29/05 – IT Bologna, Freakout Club ♞
30/05 – IT Milan, – Legend Club ♞
01/06 – ES Barcelona, Primavera Sound
03/06 – PT Lisbon, ZDB
04/06 – PT Braga, gnration
08/06 – ES Madrid, Primavera Sound
✜ Pupil Slicer
♞ Asunojokei
♛ TESA
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well