Track Listing

1. Huge
2. Ganbou-Ki
3. Hama
4. Kurumizu
5. Vomitself

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #76014 in Music
• Released on: 2003-04-28
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Avoid If Your Face Easily Melts
Never have I come across an album with such a wonderfully accurate title. "Amplifier Worship" is a wondrous, mind-numbing onslaught of guitar tone at its most heavy. It is also a complex and very progressive album, and this is what separates Boris from the rest of the doom/drone/stoner field - their ability to utilise extreme doom and drone amidst various contrasting genres.

The bookends to the album, "Huge" and "Vomitself" are pure unabashed outings into heaviness - the former is an abrasive and threatening opening, fully equipped with lumbering doom grooves, shrieked vocals and slogging drone blasts. The counterpart bookend "Vomitself" is 17 minutes of classic drone a la Earth and Sunn O))), equally otherworldly and epic. The middle section of "Amplifier Worship" makes for a more varied and eclectic listen. "Ganbou-Ki" starts in a similar vein to "Huge" but a sudden tempo change breakdown cuts in and shifts the atmosphere completely. The song grooves and drifts into a base-lead march with hypnotic ambience, tribal drumming and atmospheric guitar antics. "Hama" starts with energetic punk rock then breaks down with a very retro 70s stoner rock groove. "Kuruimizu" fashions a brooding finale, sounding part ambient and part post-rock with down tempo, gentle and trippy guitar layering. These songs are superbly varied, showcasing a band in full control shifting genres, tempos and dynamics with ease.

Fans of stoner/doom/drone will find much joy here. "Amplifier Worship" is on of the sheer heaviest albums I have ever heard, but also one of the most compelling and perfectly experimental. Highly recommended for fans of this sound and style or just those wanting something heavy with a twist.

Crawl into your little noise
Boris....well its wierdness isn't it. I had a hole in my music collection that escaped my detection until one corblimey afternoon in a friends house. Stuck on this cd he did and pushed my face into the ground. its a mucky, dirty album this. the tracks are long and punishing and yet these crazy Japaneseophiles manage to pull structure and melody from the ashes of nothingness. Its not as challenging as Merzbow and one step towards stoner rock with a little tickle from death metal. If a man with a raspy cough made sweet sweet love to six pints of bass and breakdown then this is what you'd get, the drone, obey it. standout track Hama. I had this song playing out of some lamebum computer speakers with windows media player visualisations on. It put me into some kind of bango trance. If you dont buy this then you're off my xmas card list

Well chewy
This is a re-release of a 1998 slab of gewiness(?) with a gummi worm jammed into the jewel case. The cover artwork is by Stephen O'Malley, and the band took their name from a Melvins song. Like both of these artists, Boris bring a dry sense of playfulness to everything they do (frog sounds, "Amplifier Worship"???!!), and still manage to trepan the heck out of any willing headphonaut.

This disc is best listened to straight through, so that the various parts get a chance to work together. Even the quiet bits have a heaviness, like Bohren und der Club of Gore, or Corrupted's acoustic dirge,'Gekkou No Daichi'. The heaviness, like the opening track, is Huge.

I just wish someone would license the rest of this band's output.