Sunn O)))/Boris "Altar" 3x LP /1000 Clear OOP Witch Torche Baroness Melvins

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Sunn O)))/Boris "Altar" Gatefold 3x LP Southern Lord Records (US)

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Track Listing:

Altar A Etna Drums – Atsuo Guitar – Greg Anderson, Stephen O'Malley Guitar, Bass – Takeshi Lead Guitar – Wata
B1 N.L.T. Cymbal [Bowed], Gong – Atsuo Double Bass [Upright Bass] – Bill Herzog
B2 The Sinking Belle (Blue Sheep) Bass Guitar – Greg Anderson Drums [Traps] – Atsuo Guitar – Takeshi Guitar, Effects [Space Echo] – Wata Percussion – Adrienne Davies Piano – Stephen O'Malley Vocals – Bill Herzog, Jesse Sykes, Phil Wandscher
C1 Akuma No Kuma Drums [Lead] – Atsuo Drums [Snare] – Bill Herzog Synthesizer [Korg Ms20] – Stephen O'Malley Synthesizer [Korg Ms20], Effects [Sherman Filter Bank, Echoplex] – Randall Dunn Synthesizer [Moog Rogue] – Greg Anderson Synthesizer [Moog Taurus] – Tos Nieuwenhuizen Synthesizer [Oberheim Voice 4] – Troy Swanson Synthesizer [Roland Sh101] – Mell Dettmer Synthesizer [Vocoder] – Joe Preston Trombone – Steve Moore (5)
C2 Fried Eagle Mind Bass Guitar – Greg Anderson Guitar [Bottle Lead] – Takeshi Guitar [Clandestine], Performer [Califone] – Stephen O'Malley Synthesizer [Korg Ms20], Performer [Natural Trouble] – Randall Dunn Synthesizer [Moog Taurus] – Tos Nieuwenhuizen Synthesizer [Oberheim Voice 4] – Troy Swanson Vocals, Guitar [Space] – Wata
D Blood Swamp Gong – Atsuo Guitar – Greg Anderson, Kim Thayil, Stephen O'Malley Guitar, Bass – Takeshi Synthesizer [Moog Rogue] – Tos Nieuwenhuizen Synthesizer [Moog Taurus] – Rex Ritter

Altar Prelude (Satan Oscillate My Metallic Sonatas) E Her Lips Were Wet With Venom Featuring – Dylan Carlson, Rex Ritter, Tos Nieuwenhuizen
F Her Lips Were Wet With Venom (Continued) Featuring – Dylan Carlson, Rex Ritter, Tos Nieuwenhuizen

Boris (??? Borisu?) is a Japanese experimental metal band that combines different music genres including drone metal, sludge metal, noise rock, psychedelic rock, ambient and pop. 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 19 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.

From its formation, Boris' members have made deliberate efforts to avoid being pigeon-holed, or too strongly associated with any musical style. "Having some kind of preconceived message or theme is very boring to me," noted Atsuo, the band's drummer. "It becomes a crutch. Just say what you want to say."

The band's influences are eclectic, with Sleep, Nick Cave, Nick Drake, Venom, and the Melvins being a few of the more important ones. The group quickly realized that they did not fit in with the Japanese hardcore punk scene that birthed them, though they retain a fondness for the scene and its music.

Atsuo, Vancouver, October 2011

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 here).

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 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' 2006 vinyl-only release, Vein, focused on a sound derived from classic Japanese crust bands, such as Gloom, Confuse, and Gai.

Boris has said in an interview with Pitchfork that after being in a band for so long, "it is easier to write songs now.

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 – [even] interviews are over [the] 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 opened for Nine Inch Nails on part of the fall 2008 segment of the Lights in the Sky tour. 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."

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. 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.

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 alums on the label Sargent House. On 2012 they announced the release of the album Präparat and the reissue of their 2006 album Vein in addition to The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked - Chonicle, a compilation of all three albums released with additional features.

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

Sunn O))) (pronounced simply "sun" /s?n/, sometimes spelled as sunn O)))) is an American drone metal band from Seattle, Washington that formed in 1998. They are primarily known for their synthesis of diverse genres including drone, ambient, noise, and extreme metal. Supported by a varying cast of collaborators, the band was formed by two core members: Stephen O'Malley (also of Khanate and Burning Witch), Greg Anderson (of Goatsnake and Engine Kid).

History

Sunn O))) is named after the Sunn amplifier brand, whose logo includes a circle next to the "SUNN" banner with waves heading off to the right. In interviews, Stephen O'Malley stated that the band's moniker was also chosen as a play on the name Earth, a band widely regarded as pioneers of drone music throughout the 1990s. Before the band members moved to Los Angeles, it briefly used the moniker Mars.

The band's style is characterized by extremely slow tempos, heavily distorted guitars, and alternate tunings. The guitars are notable for their incredibly low register, which is sometimes achieved by using drop A tuning. Additionally, the band known for using resonant feedback to create monolithic soundscapes and eerie atmospheres. There is very little drumming and a lack of any discernible beat. When performing live the band wears robes, fills the air with fog, and plays at an extremely high volume.

The band releases the majority of its music through the label it founded in 1998, Southern Lord Records. However, it initially released ØØ Void (their second album) on multiple labels, including Rise Above Records, Hydra Head Records, and Dirter Productions (who pressed it as a double album on vinyl). Additionally, the original pressing of The Grimmrobe Demos was released by Hydra Head Records. It was later issued as a double picture record set by Outlaw Recordings and finally reissued by Southern Lord in 2004.

Logotype of the band Sunn O))).

Sunn O))) experiments with a variety of styles and sounds, progressing the primarily guitar and bass style of The Grimmrobe Demos and ØØ Void. On White1 and White2, Sunn O))) noticeably expanded on conceptualization by inviting several guests (see collaborations below), resulting in everything from quiet meditative ambient sounds ("A Shaving of the Horn that Speared You" from White1) to a bizarre bass experiment track ("bassAliens" from White2). Black One continued this direction, utilizing far more electronics, synthesis, and other instrumentation than earlier Sunn O))) material, yet still marking a significant return to its traditional sound.

Sunn O))) is widely regarded as leaders in its genre, including by The New York Times Magazine of May 28, 2006, when the band was written up in an article called "Heady Metal" by John Wray. It was praised in an issue of Wonkavision, an independent music magazine, as one of the greatest modern metal acts. Sunn O))) was also shown in the August 2007 issue of Q Magazine (the "loud issue"), with its album White1 being named the 18th-loudest album of all time, just above AC/DCs Back in Black and below Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced?

In 2008, Sunn O))) released its live album Dømkirke, and also announced that it would do a mini-tour consisting of four concerts to commemorate the group's 10th anniversary to coincide with release of The Grimmrobe Demos.

The band's seventh studio album, Monoliths & Dimensions, was released on May 18, 2009, and was acclaimed by both press and public alike.

On December 17, 2009, the song "Hunting & Gathering (Cydonia)" from the CD Monoliths & Dimensions was named the Heaviest Song of All-Time by Jason Ellis on The Jason Ellis Show on Sirius/XM. Greg Anderson then appeared on The Jason Ellis Show on January 12, 2010.

The band played the ATP New York 2010 music festival in Monticello, New York, during September 2010, where it collaborated with Boris to perform the Altar album live.

For live performances, Hungarian-born Attila Csihar (Mayhem) has performed as the primary vocalist since 2003.

Sunn O))) released a collaboration album with Ulver, entitled Terrestrials, in February 2014.

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