by Laura Brennan
Southern Lord’s three-piece Japanese baby, Boris, recently unleashed their third full length. Imagine if Acid Mothers Temple and Mad3 were to fuck each others brains out on a crazy mescalin trip while listening to the Melvins’ Bullhead. This is Akuma no Uta.

The first track, “Introduction,” begins with long and droning sounds that are much less boring than many bands trying to do the Melvins, Earth, Sunno)) "thing." Then “Ibitsu,” bursts forth with a loud garage-esque explosion of squealing guitar. Both “Ibitsu” and “Furi” are high energy late-60s early-70s heavy rock fury with a sound as deep as the influential punk rock legends, The Stooges.
On the other hand, “Naki Kyoku,” starts with a very slow and warm, almost dream sequence sound. After an intense build up, it hits with a driving deep dark fuzzy guitar line that makes you wanna close your eyes and ride out the rest of this masterpiece of a song. The build up continues to rise up to the velocity of the rest of the album. The pair up of deep psychedelic influences with thick garage guitar underscored by the emphasis of the power of pure noise produces a sick sound.

Throughout the album, you can hear the chemistry between Atsuo's drums and Takeshi's double neck electric bass-guitar (yeah, that’s right). Wata, a metal geisha of doom, cuts through their solid foundation with her riff-tastic froth. She is the real six-string samurai. This band is obviously magic, Japanese and good at everything.