"Boris" | |
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Song by The Melvins | |
from the album Bullhead | |
Released | 1991 |
Recorded | 1990 |
Genre | Sludge metal |
Length | 8:34 [1] |
Label | Boner Records |
Songwriter(s) | Buzz Osborne |
Producer(s) | Jonathan Burnside |
"Boris" is a song by the Melvins from their 1991 album, Bullhead . [1] The song is a fan favorite and appears on the Melvins retrospective album/book Neither Here nor There and the live album Alive at the Fucker Club . [2] The Japanese doom/drone metal band Boris named themselves after this song. [3] The Boris song "Vomitself" from their album Amplifier Worship has a similar but slower riff at the start of the song.[ original research? ]
The song was covered by Isis and Agoraphobic Nosebleed on the 2005 tribute album We Reach: The Music of the Melvins , and by Boris and Japanese noise musician Merzbow on their 2020 collaborative album 2R0I2P0 .