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|years_active = 1992–present |label = |associated_acts = |website = |current_members = *Atsuo *Wata *Takeshi |past_members = Nagata }} is a Japanese avant-garde metal band. Currently, the band's personnel consists of drummer-vocalist Atsuo, bassist-guitarist-vocalist Takeshi, and guitarist-vocalist Wata. Boris takes its name from a song on the Melvins' ''Bullhead'', and released its first album, ''Absolutego'', on the group's own label, Fangs Anal Satan, in 1996. Since then, they have released 23 studio albums, including ''Pink'', ''Heavy Rocks'' and ''Akuma No Uta'', a number of EPs, 7" singles, and full-length collaborative recordings, on various record labels around the world. ==History== Boris was originally a four-piece band, with Nagata on drums. Nagata departed in 1996 leaving Atsuo to take over drumming duties and it has remained a three-piece since.〔''Altar'' liner notes (Daymare 3LP pressing)〕 In Japan, Boris release most of their music on the indie label Inoxia Records. Though relatively unknown in their home country, a recent series of reissues on US label Southern Lord Records has seen their popularity in North America increase dramatically, even gaining them widespread recognition in the mainstream music press. Many of Boris' vinyl releases feature similar artwork for the inner label of the record. This is a parody of the original Roger Dean artwork that Virgin Records used for many of their releases (seen ). 2005's ''Pink'' was met with considerable critical praise and a strong response from music fans when reissued in the US on Southern Lord Records. ''Blender'' magazine and ''SPIN'' magazine both named it one of 2006's best albums.〔("The 50 Greatest CDs of 2006." ''Blender'' Magazine Online. Jan/Feb 2007. ) Retrieved on February 9, 2007.〕 The album also topped the metal section of Canadian magazine (Exclaim )'s 2006 Reader's Poll, and was in the top 10 of Pitchfork Media's Top 50 Records of 2006. Boris has said in an interview with Pitchfork that after being in a band for so long, "it is easier to write songs now.〔(Pitchfork: Interviews: Boris )〕 Boris is a band that focuses a lot of their time on touring. In an interview, Atsuo said: "That we tour so much and release so many albums, I think it is representative of what we’re about. Direct communication is something we’ve lost in this day and age. It’s a shame – () interviews are over () phone. I think it's important to see people face to face – that's why it's so important to go on tour. It's something very basic to humans that we’ve lost lately."〔(Boris: Interview )〕 Boris opened for Nine Inch Nails on part of the fall 2008 segment of the Lights in the Sky tour.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Boris, HEALTH, the Bug to Open for Nine Inch Nails )〕 They also appeared on the avant-garde metal soundtrack to Jim Jarmusch's film ''The Limits of Control''. Regarding Boris, Jarmusch said that "what's really remarkable is when they play live they're in the mode, in a way, of jazz musicians, not structurally or musically, but the way they listen to what the others are doing and build on it. Each time they play something it's obviously different, every time."〔Jim Jarmusch and Alan Licht, "Invisible Jukebox," ''The Wire'' 309, November 2009, p. 23.〕 Boris played the ATP New York 2010 music festival in Monticello, New York where they performed ''Altar'' in collaboration with Sunn O))) On May 29, 2010, Boris performed a cover of The Doors song The End with Ian Astbury at Vivid Festival on Sydney.〔(Ian Astbury and Boris The End @ Sydney Opera House 2010 )〕 Boris and Astbury released a four-song EP in September 2010 on Southern Lord and Daymare Records that contains four tracks entitled Teeth and Claws, We are Witches, Rain (The Cult cover), Magickal Child.〔(Pitchfork: Boris Team With the Cult's Ian Astbury )〕〔(規格番号 )〕〔(Southern Lord Records >> BXI= Boris Collaboration With Ian Astbury! )〕 In 2011, Boris released three albums: New Album, their first major release with a major producer on AVEX/Tearbridge label, Heavy Rocks a sequel to the album with the same name, and Attention Please. Both albums on the label Sargent House.〔Sargent House. (Boris to release new albums in Spring 2011: New Album on Daymare Recordings, Attention Please on Sargent House and Heavy Rocks on Southern Lord ) twitter.com. 2010-12-31. Retrieved on 2011-01-18.〕 In 2014, Boris announce the release of CDs of archival material under the names ''Archive I'' and ''Archive II'' and on April 8, they announced the album ''Noise'' to be released once again through Sargent House 〔(Boris announces new album "Noise" and US/Canada Tour ) twitter.com. 2014-04-08. Retrieved on 2014-04-08.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boris (band)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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