Event Listing - Music
Sat Aug 2

Boris with Torche, Lair of the Minotaur


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$17
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Location
Date and Time
Great American Music Hall (GAMH)
859 O'Farrell Street
San Francisco, CA 94109 map
cross street: Polk
district: Polk Gulch/Van Ness

Sat Aug 2 (Doors at 8pm, Show at 9pm)

Description
Japanese cult favourite sludge/doom rock trio Boris take their name from a song on grunge godfathers the Melvins ' “Bullhead” album. They also have a lot in common with the Melvins musically, including a fondness for heavily down tuned guitar/bass tones and exceedingly slow tempos. But they also incorporate elements variously drawn from other sources, including psychedelic rock, punk, noise, minimalism, pure sludge-drone music à la Earth , and more. Also, despite the unpretentious psychedelic/stoner rock imagery that accompanies much of their work, there is an ambitiously experimental aspect to much of it. Their albums, for example, have tended to be massive conceptual projects: Absolutego , is a feedback-heavy drone exploration consisting of a single 65 minute track; Also on the more experimental end of their discography are collaborations with Japanese avant-garde enigma Keiji Heino and power electronics/noise legend Merzbow.