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Boris - Amplifier Worship

Wow, it's been a long time since I've posted on this blog, mostly because of a lack of motivation on my part. However, I really want to start posting more, and writing the blog for Pvrth has brought me some newfound motivation ( read the blog I'm writing for Pvrth here! ). Therefore, I'm going to try to post at least once a month. Anyway, I'd like to introduce you to a fantastic band that I've been listening to recently, Boris! Boris is an experimental noise/ drone metal band from Japan. I can't understand what they're saying, but that doesn't take away from the spiritual experience that is listening to one of their albums. Boris is also named after a song of the same name by one of my favorite bands, the Melvins. You may remember my review of the album Lysol by the Melvins ( if not, read my Melvins - Lysol review here ). Lysol's first two tracks "Hung Bunny" and "Roman Dog Bird" are slow and powerful drone tracks which rely...

Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk

Emperor is a highly influential black metal band, and one on the original Norwegian black metal bands along with others such as Mayhem and Darkthrone. Emperor's music features beating drums, breathy growled vocals, and fast almost symphonic melodies. One interesting thing about the songs is that most of them have very loud instruments that overpower the vocals. This results in almost dreamlike songs, which are heavily focused on the instruments rather than the vocals, and remind me of shoegaze (I won't explain shoegaze now, but I will in the future, when I review a shoegaze album). It is possible that Emperor and their style of black metal inspired or was inspired by shoegaze since both black metal and shoegaze originated in the late 80s, although I don't know if this is true. The sound of Emperor's music gives me a feeling similar to laying face up in the rain at night during a thunderstorm: harsh and dark, but also surprisingly calming....

Молчат Дома - Этажи

You may be wondering, 'Is the band Молчат Дома, who created the album, Этажи, a foreign band?' and 'Are they going to be singing some non-english language, perhaps Russian?' The answer to both of these questions is yes. I can't remember how I found this album originally, but one day it came up in my YouTube recommended, I instantly recognized the cover, and decided to give it a listen. It was really good. It reminded of me listening to Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures for the first time. Note: In this review, I italicize Russian words written in the Roman alphabet, put "quotation marks" around English translations, and do nothing to Russian words written in the Cyrillic alphabet. Молчат Дома or Molchat Doma (roughly translates to "The Houses are Silent") is a 'cold wave' band. This is a genre of music that I don't know too much about, but from what I understand the genre is close to goth, except more detached and minimalistic. Si...

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