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• Artist: Boris
• Album: Akuma No Uta
• Label: Southern Lord
• Year of Release: 2003
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• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2005-04-26

After reading about one of my new favorite bands, Jesu, I ended up reading some comparisons to that of Boris, the Japanese sludge rock band that is supposedly legendary. Akuma No Uta has been picked up by Southern Lord giving hard rock fans a slightly better chance of finding this album. If you do find it, pick it up--it is worth it. The production is messy as hell but on a metal album of this magnitude it doesn't matter. Boris is named after a track on the Melvins' Bullhead album and they do take a lot of influence from these Americans. On some of the tracks they give us those bass sounds that make you think your speakers are going to be blown. They are thick and muddy and trudging for the most part ("Introduction") but in other areas of Akuma No Uta Boris picks the pace up and gives us some full on rockers ("Furi"). They also slow things down for almost three minutes on "Naki Kyoku", quite a peaceful song, only to be hit with that bottom heavy sounds again on "Ano Onna No Onryou". Akuma No Uta is a cool find. Look for Amplifier Worship and Flood as well but this album is a nice combination of everything that Boris is about. Who knew that the Japanese could rock this hard? It almost puts Kyuss to shame.

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