Japanese band Boris to play Two NZ shows
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Under The Fucking Radar in
association with 95bFM present ... BORIS
Wellington @
Bodega – Tuesday 27th March 2012
Auckland @ The Kings
Arms – Wednesday 28th March 2012
Tickets available
Thursday 9th February from www.undertheradar.co.nz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_GgowniQWk
Japanese
site http://www.borisheavyrocks.com/top.html
Boris
news http://borisheavyrocks.tumblr.com/
Label
page for Boris http://sargenthouse.com/boris_newalbum_assets.html
Formidable
Japanese drone/noise terrorists Boris make their NZ debut
with two shows in late March.
Emerging from the Japanese
hardcore scene in the mid nineties, Boris have since shed
any predictable genre expectations and embraced everything
from sludge metal and psychedelic rock to ambient noise and
straight-up pop. They have collaborated with The Cult's Ian
Astbury, film director Jim Jarmusch, Nine Inch Nails, Sun
O))) and fellow Japanese eardrum botherer Merzbow.
With a
career now 17 albums deep the band have reached the enviable
position of critical acclaim alongside creative fecundity
– releasing three albums last year alone. Releases are
either as boris(experimental) or BORIS (rock) but live they
segue seamlessly between the two.
Drummer Atsuo Mizuno is recognised as one of the world's greatest drummers and often ends shows by banging his gong, climbing up onto the speaker stacks and hurling himself into the audience. Lead vocalist Takeshi trades blissed-out, fuzzed-up riffs on his double-neck guitar-bass combo with guitarist and sometime vocalist Wata.
ENDS