Boris (song)

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"Boris"
Song by The Melvins
from the album Bullhead
Released1991
Recorded1990
Genre Sludge metal
Length8:34 [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 .

References

  1. 1 2 "Bullhead at AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved 2008-10-16.
  2. "Alive at the F*cker Club at AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved 2008-10-16.
  3. "Boris biography". Southern Records. Archived from the original on 2008-10-21. Retrieved 2008-10-16.