Boris & Merzbow

Japanese sludge/doom rock trio Boris are cult favorites who took their name from a song on grunge godfathers the Melvins' Bullhead album. They had much in common with the Melvins musically, including a fondness for heavily downtuned guitar/bass tones and exceedingly slow tempos. But they have also variously drawn from psychedelic rock, punk, noise, minimalism, pure sludge-drone music, and more, and there is an ambitiously experimental aspect to much of the band's work. Their albums tend toward massive conceptual projects: 2001's Absolutego is a feedback-heavy drone exploration...