BORIS with MERZBOW - "Huge" (Official Live Music Video)

[@anfrankogezamartincic1161]

Japan musicians take everything to extreme, that's dedication

[@duaneanderson6393]

ugh? I don't unner stan?😗

[@Aighthandle]

This music is therapeutic healing. Good for recovery from a long day at work

[@LukeZuniga]

Exactly what I did today

[@corkhead0]

I saw Boris in Vegas. Right in the middle of a song the drummer climbed over his drumset and went crowd surfing.

[@shitmagician9519]

atsuos fucken wild

[@Pillgrim1981]

you either appreciate it or you don't. I don't think it's necessarily a hipster thing if you like this. I think it's honestly kinda pretentious to immediately dismiss this because of the lack of melody or whatever. Just accept there are people who love to be engulfed in a wall of uncompromising noise, something you just can't experience at home. That there is beauty, purity and a sense of catharsis derived from this crushing and monolithic sound. I wish I could have been there.

[@Aph3x92]

The thing is, this has melody still lmao. This isn't complete noise(genre) yet

[@38bass]

Aye! ❤️‍🔥

[@UnoxOW]

how the fuck are u gonna say its pretentious to not like noise music LMAOOO thats the most backwards thing i've ever heard

[@iron8515]

This is indeed one of the most massive soundscapes ever produced.

[@TheKingBJ]

Huge is the heaviest song in the universe and Merzbow just made it ten times heavier

[@CanUSeeRJB1]

If I ever see these guys perform live... I think I'd lose my hearing.

[@mixaly41]

..but it will be the real price for it))

[@tigermunky]

I've been 4 times. I saw them for the 4th time last night and my ears still hurt like fuck. I have only half hearing in my right ear and tinnitus in my left ear. But hell, it was a fucking awesome gig.

[@scuzzy7938]

Yeah saw them once and they are so loud, even from the back, you're gonna need earplugs

[@anfrankogezamartincic1161]

I had similar situation with SWANS, you could FEEL The brutal noise fisically

[@fackumon292]

You better use earplugs

[@Ammeo]

This went into my playlist within the first 10 seconds of playing it

[@earlymodern]

I'm so happy this exists.

[@Kakapoworship]

ただただ かっこいい👍

[@raulfunez7573]

boris and merzbow perfect duo!!

[@moazhanif5221]

Yes and they're coming up with new album in December

[@grindcoremaniac]

Boris is unlike any other band when witnessed live.

[@MegaKronnik]

+grindcoremaniac considering bands play music, and this isn't that, I am able to agree with you 100% without ever having seen them.

[@grindcoremaniac]

You must not know about the versatility of Boris. They've recorded so many albums in different styles of music. This collaboration isn't the first with Merzbow either. I understand why people don't understand it, though. I get it though.

[@GabrielPaccioni]

I have never attended live shows from either band, but I guess the Melvins, specially when playing "Hung Bunny" have a similar energy.

[@volcanosatoshi]

​@MegaKronnik tell me that you have never listened Boris without actually telling that. They're definition of versatility

[@Zeitgeist6]

Holy fucking christ.. this is epic..... Wish I could see this live...

[@blckrig1817]

This is insanely heavy

[@mcharrison23]

INTENSE! ...This pro-shot makes me happy.

[@8o86]

yes!

[@dvshndfstvlst]

Amplifier worship 🙏

[@TheBusker96]

This is pretty huge.

[@najib_rama]

they said death metal or extreme death titanium is most heavy and noisy music genres? but how about drone metal and japanoise?? i think your ear must to upgrade with hearing a sound like a miss signal radio

[@mcharrison23]

"...We Will Tear Your Mind Apart..."

[@islowthingsdown]

Death metal is extremely weak compared to drone and sludge metal. Noise is really heavy too but in a different way.

[@Noddles404]

they need to really release an album of this show in full!

[@empressofbile]

i have this at half volume and my table is vibrating from it lol

[@Erbelion]

Holy fuck that's heavy. I don't like Merzbow music, but mixed with Boris is magic.

[@fackumon292]

Sameeee

[@finvarg2]

you have a space to grow, it's great. Boris is overrated, Merzbow is not.

[@TonyArechiga]

Revisiting this and I just love it.

[@visceractor3514]

Sounds like a natural drone metal

[@percy2970]

this was amazing. even just from a video i was standing there jaw dropped ............ I would kill to see them all live.

[@ImshadyKurtinz]

This is like the opening of a metal concert played in an entire song!🤣🤣🤣🤟

[@thierryfrancqueville617]

“To escape from horror, as we have said, bury yourself in it.”

[@arekhautaluoma4276]

Damn, how did I never see this!!! I love Huge!!!!

[@JCaverly]

Sounds Huge

[@blisterpacman]

that was pretty radical

[@ryanhoffman5654]

The irony of the trad metal dudes in the comments calling this a waste of time and noise would be hilarious if they had the ability to recognize it ;)

[@MegaKronnik]

+Ryan Hoffman there is a slight difference between noise and music.  it would be normal if you had the ability to recognize that.

[@ryanhoffman5654]

MegaKronnik Yes there is: intent. These people sound like my grandma when I was a kid who said Slayer wasn't music, it was just noise lol

[@MegaKronnik]

+Ryan Hoffman Just because two people say the same thing doesn't mean they are obliged to be mutually valid or invalid. Depending on the context, a particular statement could ring true or false. For example, saying the sky is blue, while standing on Mars, you're wrong. I am of the opinion that the grandma you refer to is dead wrong due to the presence of rhythm, melody, and actual song structure. However, to my point, the cacophony of sounds you'd hear in a forest are not music anymore than the shit that merzbow makes is music. With poetic license I could completely understand, and would myself, describe the sounds of birds and the wind in the trees as music, but I would at least have the sense to understand I am taking poetic license in that situation. Likewise with Merzbow. I personally don't mind or have an issue with anyone enjoying listening to the noises he creates, much like I'd find it absurd to criticize someone for enjoying the sounds of the forest. However, I will roll my eyes and disagree if someone were to insist that the birds, or merzbow, are dabbling in the creation of what is known the world over as 'music.' TL;DR the term noise exists for a reason. not all sounds are music.

[@ryanhoffman5654]

MegaKronnik Theres a difference between not liking it and calling it noise (in a seemingly derisive way). Hell even at universities they teach about and have composition classes for musique concrete, which has been around since the 30's...

[@MegaKronnik]

+Ryan Hoffman - - - - I appreciate your ability to not let this devolve into a meathead slug fest on a youtube forum in spite of our disagreements and any snark i may have thrown out there, and I am glad to have come here because I did discover boris, who I will explore later as I'm able and in the mood. What would you say about John Cage's supposed composition entitled 4'33"? You can look it up on wikipedia if so inclined, but in essence it's 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence. I posit that it is not music. the 'composer' of this silence insists the actual "song" is composed of what the audience will hear in their environment during the aforementioned silence. I am completely on board with referring to this as some form of performance art, although nobody is actually actively performing anything. I will admit there is enough flexibility there in concept and definition to allow a passive type of performance within the arts, of any variety, not just audible formats. However, to call 4'33" of general silence a 'song' or a 'composition' or more broadly 'music' I find that quite misleading and factually incorrect. To get back to our original debate here, I feel 4'33" of essentially random white noise and static and arbitrary throbbing bass would be similarly received: it is sound (or lack thereof to encompass John Cage's piece), it is a performance, it is art, but I don't believe it is music. One could argue that the entire infinite expanse of the universe is a musician and is constantly producing music because our scientific instruments on earth can hear various anomalies. -------- Ok, just listend to Pierre Schaeffer's piece entitle "Apostrophe" here on youtube. It is admittedly easier to listen to for me, i.e. not as abrasive as merzbow, but I still wouldn't call that music. It is yet again a performance art piece that happens to use sound as it's medium. Would you call the 7-eleven logo a painting or visual work of art simply because you can see it? The color bars that used to appear on TV stations as they ended their nightly broadcast is no more a work of art than a business logo or (though I know a work of art could be used as a business logo, I admit this isn't the perfect analogy for the concept I am trying to convey, but I am sure you get what I'm driving at). Musique Concrete seems to me to be amazingly important to the modern creation of music as it appears on the surface to be some of the earliest examples of sampling I've ever encountered. I am grateful to have heard merzbow, boris, john cage, and pierre schaeffer at this point in my music listening life. I don't find any of it to be outright worthless or devoid of meaning. I simply have a hard time reconciling these types of things as music, or songs. Art? Absolutely. And some of it beautiful to behold.

[@Zeitgeist6]

fucking brilliant...

[@ninfan200]

This feels so cathartic.

[@LIPBALMDEATH]

I thought this was amazing, I can't wait to get the 4 lp set!!!

[@Take-the-Ticket]

mmm chills

[@Sonmz]

One of my favs, esp. for acid tripping!

[@re_1241]

Muy bueno, es un sonido aplastante como si te cayera un amplificador de 20 toneladas, Merzbow se mezcla muy bien en la canción con esos ruidos zumbantes y fuzz

[@duaneanderson6393]

YES ! YES!

[@mrwrong2815]

WOW!

[@あずすぁ]

これぞ伝説

[@xeverettx2564]

Just absolutely DEVASTATING!!! Not only does the music have an avant garde feel to it but it forces your mind outside of the box. Once outside that box it throws on tons of compression and sound waves clipping which makes another small perimeter and those two push the sound away from each other like magnets repelling and all along staying in that space. Imagine a picture frame if you will and that is the space I’m referring to. PUNK AS FUCK!!!!!!!!

[@rubwpalma1551]

intro and first seconds reminds me of cattle decapitation

[@torreswaldo]

Dense as hell......i like it

[@ii121]

rules so fucking hard

[@lege5346]

fucking hell... l love it!!!

[@rohandan4317]

Good for sleep for me :)

[@PrimitiveInTheExtreme]

☠☠☠

[@braindancer1990]

sounds like Sunn 0))) with a hint of Power Electronics

[@timyoung6535]

is nice

[@Take-the-Ticket]

Such tone. SO big. Very Merzbow. Much WOW

[@Imnotevenhuman]

Too good

[@mur4681]

awesome

[@URLDEATH__]

inb4 "whos still watching in 2018"

[@aghastinagharta]

Sorry, 2019.

[@user-fz9uf5jf5v]

@@aghastinagharta 2020

[@mcharrison23]

2021,,,couple times a month, sanity purposes.

[@islowthingsdown]

2023, watching for the first time.

[@artedesing]

AHHHHHHHH

[@timemnemic5308]

Genial wenn Sterne am Himmelsfirnament erwachen.

[@thierryfrancqueville617]

heavenheavenheaven!!!!

[@Enc0m43]

Merzbow please collab with me!

[@scottinthedark]

I think this one of those gigs where you have to be there to appreciate it like sunn o))) and a bag of weed ;)

[@TheKingBJ]

But it's better than Sunn O)))

[@nikusenpuki3631]

This could have easily been an hour long

[@viajantesextraplanares226]

Qur foda

[@ImshadyKurtinz]

This is heavier than the Tsar Bomb.

[@xbachelorofartsx]

Чёрные плащи приземлились.

[@aarcvault908]

Someone in the commentary makes the point regarding intent, which by itself is maybe insufficient. This style is tricky to pull off convincingly under the best of circumstances; there's NO shortage of examples of how to do it poorly, so maybe the best to be hoped for is NOT to do it badly and see if and where it lands. Best case scenario, you might end up with a hybrid. -The Boris/Merzbow hook-up is a fine case in point.

[@mcharrison23]

Their Naturals.

[@raulfunez7573]

out of this world!!far away from this planet!!!!

[@nicoletheunissen7077]

Keep your 🧠🤍 of men are cold in the last days🖤,turn now,for what is the deal if you gain the whole world but stil lose your own soul💯Wake up💤💉🧬☠🌊🌈Repent⌚Like in the days of Noah God will judge the world⌛

[@SluiceBoxDon]

I felt like I was waiting for the song to start, but it never did.

[@pipegris]

+Heywood Jablomey same here

[@MetalheadPedro]

Are you guys new to Drone?

[@pipegris]

+SuperTortilhaDeMorango I must confess, that I have flown a couple of those, and they all sound better.

[@MetalheadPedro]

Andrés Felipe Grisales What have you listened to? I dig Khanate and Earth more than this, but this is deffinetly better than anything I've heard by Sunn O))). I've digged some other Boris stuff though I haven't dived deep, but I didn't enjoy Merzbow very much except for some colabs.

[@wegowhereeaglesdare]

+SuperTortilhaDeMorango This is some KTL-level doomnoise.

[@najib_rama]

after saw this, i know a soundman is not useful for this performance

[@Darklordd123]

I kept waiting for the song to start

[@jandoubrava3991]

00:00 Your welcome.

[@nome3795]

Binky, that is the music.

[@esKpea]

The fuck was that

[@BigBeard13]

... ?

[@vandalking8341]

!...

[@XX-jf8og]

this is real Japanese music not kawaii weeb pop girlband (not as a "band") bullshit.

[@leolee8168]

Ningen Isu is real Japanese metal, this is just pretentious hipster crap

[@islowthingsdown]

@@leolee8168 or maybe some people like expressing themselves in this way

[@cocodaft4821]

I guess listen to merzbow by a long period is not very healthy .

[@kekkekovich318]

Ебать, это под чем надо быть чтоб такое слушать???XD

[@phnxshine]

Pleb filter

[@drossiana3951]

Apenas entre a ver de qué se trata está música,pero realmente los ruidos es música? Por favor eso no es música ,más duele la cabeza escucharlo

[@nicksupreme2094]

This KIND OF was music (or as close to it as you get I guess). Sounded more like "someone is a fan of doom metal and industrial but he kind of takes tons of drugs while listening to industrial" instead of "someone's TV has caught fire". Or you could say it's Black Sabbath on psychedelics played with a huge machine running in the background.

[@albertogabrielcibini5600]

it this music??????? please don't joke

[@mdr222]

yes - drone metal and noise rock are actual genres

[@miguelortiz5309]

music means "sounds combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion." So yes, try google next time.

[@XoArK]

Miguel Ortiz Google's meaning of music means nothing. Open your mind to what music can be without set definitions.

[@Sportfuck]

Only an idiot would google the definition of music and then use it as an actual argument. No offense.

[@miguelortiz5309]

Not google's definition, any definition would suffice. Bitches

[@chzzyg2698]

I wonder what the tab for this song looks like. -9 minutes of noise, get paid.

[@miguelortiz5309]

bet you can't play it

[@chzzyg2698]

You're probably right, but I know some five year olds who have never played that could nail it, and maybe do it better.

[@miguelortiz5309]

+chzzyg269 actually, I don't think so.

[@lincolnsand5127]

@@chzzyg2698 You're a dumbass who's never heard anything more extreme than a Taylor Swift song. It's sad that you have to bash real talent.

[@mcharrison23]

Yeah, because Chord structure is the Only Thing that makes sense, grow Up.

[@aneveningwithebola2727]

Yes, it's true, you can literally release ANYTHING and someone with his head so far up his pretentious ass will still find a way to call it "art."

[@TheKingBJ]

Sure thing Sabaton fanboy

[@lincolnsand5127]

@@TheKingBJ Sabaton is good. What are you on about?

[@lincolnsand5127]

An Evening with Ebola You are an ignorant dumbass. Go listen to your shitty metalcore.

[@existentialdraintest]

prog and power metaller pussy detected

[@islowthingsdown]

You’re hilarious dude

[@MegaKronnik]

ok just heard some boris without merzbow. I could listen to that. but merzbow? that dude is a scam artist. I am totally going home tonight and making some of this shit and then when people call me a genius (like, I only need about two dozen of you to do that) i'll be completely validated. lol. boris is ok, I'm actually gonna check them and related artists out, but merbow? what a fucking joke. it's no different than a dude selling a blank white canvas and calling it art. tl;dr boris is ok merzbow found a way to scam money from people and make them feel righteously hipsterish about it.

[@eutow_2350]

+MegaKronnik Don't listen to his stuff then. Boom, problem solved.

[@TANOdjNY]

+MegaKronnik you skipped through some merzbow for what, 5 minutes ?

[@eeveeflick5871]

+MegaKronnik wow man. you're so fucking smart. please tell me how to be as clever and genius as you dude. seriously. you're sooooo smart.

[@resonator23]

+MegaKronnik not sure why you felt the need to write three seperate head-up-the-ass essays on the subject of why you don't like this. we get it.

[@densebutton]

+MegaKronnik No offence, but it's evident you have no idea what you're talking about. You are perfectly entitled not to like it, but to call merzbow a scam artist is just ridiculous. He's been doing experimental/noise music since 1980, it's not a new thing. Nobody is making noise music to make money or be famous, I can assure you of that. I honestly don't think most hipsters even know/care about noise. If you don't like it go listen to something you enjoy and stop moaning.

[@MegaKronnik]

man this is terrible, though it's an amazing tool to use against telemarketers. I string them along through the robo part of the call, and once a human gets on there I keep talking with them and slowly turn the volume up until all they hear is me mumbling and this shit pouring into their ears. I can barely tolerate it (have it paused while I write this actually), and I'm the one pressing Play, can't imagine they enjoy it any more. so, thank you for making these sounds as far as that goes.but yeah, terrible music. waste of talent, in my not so humble opinion. I'm sure they are all great people and good musicians (technically speaking), but as far as this goes? this composition? this particular genre? it's terrible. it makes me feel old. I do, however, take comfort in knowing that it's a small, small, super fucking tiny segment of the population that can actually call this music without rolling their eyes or smirking, so there's that.

[@resonator23]

oh listen to you. fuck off back to your hair metal.

[@lincolnsand5127]

Go fuck yourself emo.

[@kierz0]

@@resonator23 you tell em

[@inaijik]

Shut up

[@djentcommunion2422]

waste of time. THis doesn't even mean anything just noises.

[@AbyssicHate112]

Pleb filter is working

[@djentcommunion2422]

@@AbyssicHate112 that's what I'm saying

[@djentcommunion2422]

@@AbyssicHate112 Listen to BORIS - Statement , the best japanese band that most japanese don't know about. It's has noise solo in it. Well that's what I love. That's my taste

[@islowthingsdown]

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[@scottinthedark]

I think this one of those gigs where you have to be there to appreciate it like sunn o))) and a bag of weed ;)