Are you of the mind, that in the big scheme of things, the really big scheme of things, there are no accidents? That everything happens for a purpose? Call it synchronicity or a Shirley MacLaine cake ...

Japanese doom metal chameleons Boris have announced a new collaborative album with fellow Japanese noisemaker Merzbow. The album is called Gensho and will be released in February 2016 on Relapse. This ...

Over the years, Japanese fuzz-metal greats Boris have crossed paths with Masami Akita, the veteran harsh-noise king known as Merzbow, a number of times. Boris and Merzbow are both from Japan, they're ...

After giving his Venereology album the reissue treatment earlier this year, Merzbow is revisiting another of his releases from 1994 for a new full-length release. The artist born Masami Akita will ...

Musicians struggle for years to transcend the context of their art. These\n\ people work hard to create works that ... Save this story Save this story Musicians struggle for years to transcend the ...

Back in 2010, prolific Japanese noise artist Merzbow (aka Masami Akita) released the sprawling 12-CD collection Merzbient, which gathered a number of ambient recordings made throughout the '80s and ...

Hiding behind the band's combo logo is Merzbow on the left, followed by the three members of Boris. Credit: Miki Matsushima The Reader is free. Producing it isn’t. And without your support, we can't ...

The often repeated refrain to a complaint about music is, "If it's too loud, then you're too old," doesn't apply to An Untroublesome Defencelessness by Merzbow, Keiji Haino, and Balázs Pándi. You ...

Masami Akita, who goes by the stage name Merzbow, spent about 75 minutes onstage at Le Poisson Rouge on Sunday night, generating a constant fusillade of sound: from two laptops, four digital-effects ...

In 1991, Melvins, the Pacific Northwestern fuzz-rock overlords, released their third album Bullhead. The opened it with a song called "Boris," a droning slow-trudge eight-minute epic that slowed its ...

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