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Boris Post “Zerkalo” Video; No Out Now on Bandcamp

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Boris‘ new album, No, is out now through Bandcamp, direct from the trio themselves. Before the release actually arrived, the long-running Japanese avant/experimental heavy rockers issued a lengthy statement about how the record was made as a resistance against what amounts to modernist conformity, the unquestioning of one’s surroundings and the apathy that might lead someone not to seek a deeper truth. They called it “extreme healing music.”

Getting from there to the sludgy scathe of the nine-minute “Zerkalo” is fair enough if one considers the fact that a forest has to burn down before it can grow again. The video arrives in various CGI landscapes, morphing and shifting from one to the other, depicting futuristic-looking cities and oceanic expanses alike. At the end we see the cityscape is devastated and in burnt out ruins — the metaphor is clear enough. What’s more interesting is the harshness of the song itself, how it seems to speak not only to the hardcore roots the band explores elsewhere on No, but the massive doom that they’re sometimes able/willing to conjure when it suits their purposes. Their purposes here are meditative but not still, and if perhaps the harsh nature of the noise they’re making is intended to be jarring, especially as it precedes their reworking of “Perforation Line,” it’s only fair to call it successful in that regard.

To be perfectly honest, I may or may not get to review No. I got a promo download for it, but really, in the pantheon of unceasing plaudits the band get, does anything I have to say about them really matter? Is there some insight I can bring to Boris that someone hasn’t already offered? I guess I have my doubts. Maybe in place of a review I’ll just say it’s Boris being Boris, which means doing whatever they want at pretty much any time and pulling it off because that’s just what they do.

There.

Enjoy the video:

Boris, “Zerkalo” official video

Just two weeks after Boris delivered their triumphant new album NO, the group has surfaced once again with a music video for the album’s crushing single “-? -Zerkalo-.” The dystopian and panoramic visuals were assembled by producer Yoshiki Shimahara— who was also responsible for CG works in the movie Shin Godzilla, etc.— and the footage aptly captures the tone and feeling of the song itself. Boris comments of the video, “The song as a mirror that reflects this world.”

Boris New Album “NO”
Only available on Bandcamp now.

https://boris.bandcamp.com/album/no

01.Genesis
02.Anti-Gone
03.Non Blood Lore
04.Temple of Hatred
05.? -Zerkalo-
06.HxCxHxC -Perforation Line-
07.????? -Kiki no Ue-
08.Lust
09.Fundamental Error
10.Loveless
11.Interlude

Takeshi: Vocals, Guitar & Bass
Wata: Vocals, Guitar & Echo
Atsuo: Vocals, Percussion & Electronics

Recording: Fangsanalsatan at Sound Square 2020
Mix & Mastering: Koichi Hara (koichihara-mix.com)

Logo Type: Kazumichi Maruoka

CG works: Yoshiki Shimahara
http://shimahara-yoshiki.com/
Directed & Edited by fangsanalsatan & Ryuta Murayama (foodunited.)

https://borisheavyrocks.com/

Boris, No (2020)

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One Response to “Boris Post “Zerkalo” Video; No Out Now on Bandcamp”

  1. Max says:

    I really like this record and would love to hear your take on it! But then again, I’m a big Boris fan and am not getting tired of reading plenty of reviews.

    Btw, Fundamental Error is the Gudon cover. HxCxHxC -Perforation Line- is actually a new version of a similarly titled track on Boris Präparat album.

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