Boris (song)

"Boris"
Song by The Melvins
from the album Bullhead
Released	1991
Recorded	1990
Genre	Sludge metal
Length	8:34[1]
Label	Boner Records
Songwriter(s)	Buzz Osborne
Producer(s)	Jonathan Burnside

"Boris" is a song by the Melvins from their 1991 album, Bullhead.[1] The song is a fan favorite and appears on the Melvins retrospective album/book Neither Here nor There and the live album Alive at the Fucker Club.[2] The Japanese doom/drone metal band Boris named themselves after this song.[3] The Boris song "Vomitself" from their album Amplifier Worship has a similar but slower riff at the start of the song.^[original research?]

The song was covered by Isis and Agoraphobic Nosebleed on the 2005 tribute album We Reach: The Music of the Melvins, and by Boris and Japanese noise musician Merzbow on their 2020 collaborative album 2R0I2P0.

References

1. "Bullhead at AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 2008-10-16.
2. "Alive at the F*cker Club at AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 2008-10-16.
3. "Boris biography". Southern Records. Archived from the original on 2008-10-21. Retrieved 2008-10-16.