We mentioned a while ago that Boris and Merzbow were working on an ambitious double LP called Gensho together, and now they’ve revealed a track. The premise of the album is that the first disc ...

Japanese doom metal chameleons Boris have announced a new collaborative album with fellow Japanese noisemaker Merzbow. The album is called Gensho and will be released in February 2016 on Relapse. This ...

Calling Cuts Open by Merzbow (aka Masami Akita), Mats Gustafsson and Balázs Pándi their sotto voce record would be like saying you received a love tap from Mike Tyson. This is the trio's fifth release ...

Hyrrokkin, the now-defunct avant rock trio from Ohio, did not overtly have much in common with the revered Japanese noise experimentalist Merzbow (né Masami Akita)… other than, of course, a shared ...

Are you of the mind, that in the big scheme of things, the really big scheme of things, there are no accidents? That everything happens for a purpose? Call it synchronicity or a Shirley MacLaine cake ...

As much as he’s respected for the noise itself, experimental Japanese artist Merzbow is perhaps best known for his prolific noise record output. Merzbow scholars estimate there are over 10,000 Merzbow ...

Merzbow is set to release a new album through Lawrence English’s Room40 label. Titled Noise Mass, the album is described as an updated version of the Japanese noise musician’s 1994 album Hole. The ...

It may be coming a bit later than fans would have hoped, but rock experimentalists Boris and extreme noise masochist Merzbow have revealed all the details behind their next collaborative album, Gensho ...

It’s strange to think that the collaboration between Maryland grindcore band Full of Hell and Japanese noise legend Merzbow had its roots in a t-shirt. In the design, Full of Hell appropriated the ...