Boris (song) explained

Boris
Artist:The Melvins
Album:Bullhead
Released:1991
Recorded:1990
Genre:Sludge metal
Length:8:34[1]
Label:Boner Records
Producer:Jonathan Burnside

"Boris" is a song by the Melvins from their 1991 album, Bullhead.[1] The song is a fan favorite and appears on the Melvins retrospective album/book Neither Here nor There and the live album Alive at the Fucker Club.[2] The Japanese doom/drone metal band Boris named themselves after this song.[3] The Boris song "Vomitself" from their album Amplifier Worship has a similar but slower riff at the start of the song.

The song was covered by Isis and Agoraphobic Nosebleed on the 2005 tribute album , and by Boris and Japanese noise musician Merzbow on their 2020 collaborative album 2R0I2P0.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: [{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r12923|pure_url=yes}} Bullhead at AllMusic ]. 2008-10-16 . AllMusic.
  2. Web site: [{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r607527|pure_url=yes}} Alive at the F*cker Club at AllMusic ]. 2008-10-16 . .
  3. Web site: Boris biography . 2008-10-16 . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081021121054/http://www.southern.com/southern/band/BORIS/biog.php . 2008-10-21 .