Bosse-de-Nage

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Bosse-de-Nage is an American band from San Francisco, California, United States, composed of four anonymous members. [1] Considered a part of the blackgaze scene, [2] [3] the band performs an experimental black metal style that draws from post-rock, shoegaze, post-hardcore, screamo, and indie rock, [4] [5] [6] with influences from Slint, Mogwai, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. [7] AllMusic critic Gregory Heaney wrote that the band "crafts a sound that's as comfortable expanding outward as it is contracting into a suffocating mass of needling guitars and frantic drumming." [4] The band's lyrics touch upon various subjects, such as sex, filth, bodies, perversion, and death. [8] Their name is taken from French symbolist Alfred Jarry's book Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician ; it is the name of a monkey which may or may not have been a hallucination of the narrator. [9]

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History

After releasing a set of demos in 2006, Bosse-de-Nage signed to The Flenser record label and released its self-titled debut album, which featured recordings from 2007, in 2010. The band's second album, II was released in 2011. [6] The album caught Profound Lore Records' attention, which released their follow-up III' in 2012. [4] [1] [6] In the same year, Bosse-de-Nage also released a split EP with San Francisco-based fellow metal band Deafheaven, Deafheaven / Bosse-de-Nage , contributing the original track, "A Mimesis of Purpose." [10]

The band released its fourth studio album, All Fours , in 2015. [5] In 2018, the band returned to The Flenser for “Further Still”, its fifth album. [11]

Band members

Discography

Studio albums
Splits
Demos

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