KFJC Presents
Boris
Torche
Lair of the Minotaur

Japanese cult favourite sludge/doom rock trio Boris take their name from a song on grunge godfathers the Melvins ' “Bullhead” album. They also have a lot in common with the Melvins musically, including a fondness for heavily down tuned guitar/bass tones and exceedingly slow tempos. But they also incorporate elements variously drawn from other sources, including psychedelic rock, punk, noise, minimalism, pure sludge-drone music à la Earth , and more. Also, despite the unpretentious psychedelic/stoner rock imagery that accompanies much of their work, there is an ambitiously experimental aspect to much of it. Their albums, for example, have tended to be massive conceptual projects: Absolutego , is a feedback-heavy drone exploration consisting of a single 65 minute track; Also on the more experimental end of their discography are collaborations with Japanese avant-garde enigma Keiji Heino and power electronics/noise legend Merzbow .
For 2008 Boris grace our ears once more with their first non-collaborative album since 2006's Pink . Smile is once again a new direction for the band, a new experience for all involved, another journey in Boris' quest for sounds that are a wider extension of just simply music, drawing on new and unconventional influences and creating possibly their best album to date!