Japbore - the band Boris

[mojovonio]

Anyone know them? They're opening for Nine Inch Nails tonight. Listening to some of their stuff on Last.fm and they sound sort of like a Japanese Smashing Pumpkins.

[jiji]

BORIS

Definitely see them. They're definitely into the psychedelic thing, but they've also got some pretty hard and raw metal going on. They change their style almost every album or so.  They're great live - their lead guitarist is a tiny, adorable woman who completely shreds, the lead singer uses a double-necked guitar/bass, and the drummer is a madman. He wore a shiny white jumpsuit with an open jacket when I saw them. Oh, and they rock live. They bring their entire pedal and effect setup with them, and it's pretty massive.

[jiji]

Deerhunter were pretty cool. I saw them when NIN played here. I'd never heard of them before the show, but I definitely need to check out their albums.

[Robo]

My favorite Boris-related project is their collaboration with Michio Kurihara on "Rainbows".  Highly recommended.

Deerhunter were pretty cool. I saw them when NIN played here. I'd never heard of them before the show, but I definitely need to check out their albums.

I got Microcastle from a friend a while ago, and it has since been in heavy rotation in my cd collection.

 

[Robo]

Well, that's my autographed and personalized copy, but yeah.

[Robo]

Definitely the best one.  Did you get Weird Era Cont. as well?  It has some pretty excellent stuff on it.

[GilloD]

Boris is the motherfucking greatest.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

I never understood the appeal of a moonlanguage band when you can't understand it. It screams virgin.

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I own the Guitar Vader discography 

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[MyNameIsMethodis]

Iceland is such a shitty country.

I like Indian music so I guess i'm a virgin too

[Robo]

The vocals are buried in distortion anyway.

[Don Flamenco]

Boris is fucking awesome.  Crazy they're opening up for NIN, but I guess Trent Reznor is in to catching the underground hotness for opening acts these days.
 

Listening to some of their stuff on Last.fm and they sound sort of like a Japanese Smashing Pumpkins.

some individual songs resemble the pumpkins, but their live show is more about their longer, heavier tracks.  they're really not like the pumpkins at all...they're a metal band with some more melodic tendencies.

I never understood the appeal of a moonlanguage band when you can't understand it. It screams virgin.

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I own the Guitar Vader discography 

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haha, yeah, it's always sad when people make this argument...shows how much of a mental midget they are. 

Guitar vader...were they on the jsrf soundtrack?

[MyNameIsMethodis]

They were on JGR and JSRF's soundtrack. I love em. I love engrish songs the best.

Their songs in JGR and JSRF were Baby T and Magical Girl

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Japanese Music.

[Don Flamenco]

Japanese Music.

don't judge it all from anime/game soundtracks.   

[MyNameIsMethodis]

This is prob my favorite jap song ever

[TVC15]

Boris is one of my favorite current bands.

their cover (w/ Merzbow) of I am the Walrus

[bork]

I never understood the appeal of a moonlanguage band when you can't understand it. It screams virgin.

Aren't there legions of people around the world who listen to American and English musicians' music and don't understand it either?  Doesn't matter with music.

One of my favorite bands is the German Reggae-Dancehall group Seeed (I think they broke up though).  I don't know what the hell they are saying in the German verses but I love it anyway.  Great stuff.

[jiji]

Well now you've mentioned that game, I've got "Birthday Cake" stuck in my fucking head. Thanks!

Shut up and eat!
Too bad no bon appetit!