Boris discography

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The following is the [[discography]] of the Japanese experimental band [[Boris (band)|Boris]].

==Studio albums== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |+ List of studio albums, with selected chart positions ! rowspan="2"| Title ! rowspan="2"| Album details ! colspan="4"| Peak chart positions |- ! scope="col" style="width:4em;font-size:90%;"|[[Billboard charts#Top Hard Rock Albums|US Hard Rock]] <ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/boris/chart-history/mtl/|title=Boris {{!}} Hard Rock Albums|accessdate=28 March 2020}}</ref> ! scope="col" style="width:4em;font-size:90%;"|[[Top Heatseekers|US Heat.]] <ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Billboard|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/boris/chart-history/tln/|title=Boris {{!}} Heatseekers Albums|accessdate=28 March 2020}}</ref> ! scope="col" style="width:4em;font-size:90%;"|[[Independent Albums|US Ind.]] <ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Billboard|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/boris/chart-history/ind/|title=Boris {{!}} Independent Albums|accessdate=28 March 2020}}</ref> ! scope="col" style="width:4em;font-size:90%;"|[[Billboard charts#Albums|US Taste.]] <ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Billboard|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/boris/chart-history/tas/|title=Boris {{!}} Tastemakers|accessdate=28 March 2020}}</ref> |- !scope="row" |''[[Absolutego]]''{{efn|Throughout their career, the band has stated that ''Absolutego'' was intended to be released as a [[Single (music)|single]] rather than a [[studio album]], despite its length.}} | *Released: 1996 *Label: Fangs Anal Satan *Formats: [[Compact disc|CD]], [[Phonograph record|LP]] | — || — || — || — |- !scope="row" |''[[Amplifier Worship]]'' | *Released: 26 November 1998 *Label: Mangrove *Formats: CD, LP | — || — || — || — |- !scope="row" |''[[Flood (Boris album)|Flood]]'' | *Released: 15 December 2000 *Label: MIDI Creative *Format: CD, LP | — || — || — || — |- !scope="row" |''[[Heavy Rocks (2002 album)|Heavy Rocks]]'' | *Released: 26 April 2002 *Label: Quattro / UK Discs *Format: CD, LP | — || — || — || — |- !scope="row" |''[[Akuma no Uta]]'' | *Released: 6 June 2003 *Label: Diwphalanx *Formats: CD, LP, [[Music download|digital download]] | — || — || — || — |- !scope="row" |''[[Boris at Last -Feedbacker-]]'' | *Released: 25 December 2003 *Label: Diwphalanx, Conspiracy Records *Formats: CD, LP, digital download | — || — || — || — |- !scope="row" |''The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked'' | *Released: August 2004 *Label: Kult of Nihilow *Format: LP | — || — || — || — |- !scope="row" |''[[Dronevil]]'' | *Released: 28 February 2005 *Label: Misanthropic Agenda *Formats: CD, LP | — || — || — || — |- !scope="row" |''Soundtrack from the Film Mabuta no Ura'' | *Released: 29 June 2005 *Label: Inoxia Records, Catune Records, Essence Records *Formats: CD, LP | — || — || — || — |- !scope="row" |''[[Pink (Boris album)|Pink]]'' | *Released: 18 November 2005 *Label: Diwphalanx Records *Formats: CD, LP, digital download | — || — || — || 25 |- !scope="row" |''The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked 2'' | *Released: 9 April 2006 *Label: Conspiracy Records *Format: LP | — || — || — || — |- !scope="row" |''The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked 3'' | *Released: 9 April 2006 *Label: Conspiracy Records *Format: LP | — || — || — || — |- !scope="row" |''Vein'' | *Released: 3 October 2006 *Label: Important Records *Format: LP | — || — || — || — |- !scope="row" |''[[Smile (Boris album)|Smile]]'' | *Released: 7 March 2008 *Label: Diwphalanx Records *Formats: CD, LP, digital download | — || 20 || — || — |- !scope="row" |''[[New Album]]'' | *Released: 16 March 2011 *Label: Tearbridge, Daymare Records, Sargent House *Formats: CD, LP, digital download | — || — || — || — |- !scope="row" |''[[Heavy Rocks (2011 album)|Heavy Rocks]]'' | *Released: 24 May 2011 *Label: Sargent House *Formats: CD, LP | 25 || 11 || — || 18 |- !scope="row" |''[[Attention Please (Boris album)|Attention Please]]'' | *Released: 24 May 2011 *Label: Sargent House *Formats: CD, LP | — || 12 || — || 19 |- !scope="row" |''[[Präparat]]'' | *Released: 6 March 2013 *Label: Daymare Recordings *Format: LP | — || — || — || — |- !scope="row" |''[[Noise (Boris album)|Noise]]'' | *Released: 17 June 2014 *Label: Sargent House, Daymare Recordings *Formats: CD, LP, digital download | 16 || 8 || 35 || 20 |- !scope="row" |''The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked Extra'' | *Released: 15 September 2014 *Label: Taiga Records *Format: LP | — || — || — || — |- !scope="row" |''[[Urban Dance]]'' | *Released: 2 May 2015 *Label: Fangs Anal Satan, New Noise Literacy *Format: CD | — || — || — || — |- !scope="row" |''[[Warpath (Boris album)|Warpath]]'' | *Released: 2 May 2015 *Label: Fangs Anal Satan, New Noise Literacy *Format: CD | — || — || — || — |- !scope="row" |''[[Asia (Boris album)|Asia]]'' | *Released: 2 May 2015 *Label: Fangs Anal Satan, New Noise Literacy *Format: CD | — || — || — || — |- !scope="row" |''[[Dear (Boris album)|Dear]]'' | *Released: 14 July 2017 *Label: Sargent House, Daymare Recordings *Formats: CD, LP, digital download | — || 14 || 25 || 22 |- !scope="row" |''[[Love & Evol|LφVE & EVφL]]'' | *Released: 4 October 2019 *Label: [[Third Man Records]] *Formats: CD, LP, digital download | — || 23 || — || — |- !scope="row" |''[[NO (Boris album)|NO]]'' | *Released: 3 July 2020 *Label: Fangs Anal Satan *Format: CD, LP, digital download | — || — || — || — |- !scope="row" |''[[W (Boris album)|W]]'' | *Released: 21 January 2022 *Label: Sacred Bones Records *Format: CD, LP, digital download | — || — || — || — |- !scope="row" |''[[Heavy Rocks (2022 album)|Heavy Rocks]]'' | *Released: 12 August 2022 *Label: [[Relapse Records]] *Format: CD, LP, digital download | — || — || — || — |- !scope="row" |''[[Fade (Boris album)|Fade]]'' | *Released: 2 December 2022 *Label: Fangs Anal Satan *Format: 2xLP, digital download | — || — || — || — |- |colspan="6" align="center" style="font-size:90%;"|"—" denotes items which did not chart. |}

==Live albums== *''[[Boris Archive]]'' 3CD (2005 aRCHIVE) *''Smile: Live at Wolf Creek'' 2CD (2008 [[Diwphalanx Records]]) *''Smile: Live in Prague'' 2LP (2009 Conspiracy Records†) *''Boris / Variations + Live in Japan'' CD + DVD (2010 Daymare Recordings / DIWPHALANX) *''Archive II'' (2014 Daymare) *''Crossing Waltz'' (2016 FangsAnalSatan) *''eternity'' (2018 FangsAnalSatan)

==EPs, singles and demos== *"Demo Vol. 1" 2x Cassette (1993, FangsAnalSatan) *"Demo Vol. 3" Cassette (1994, FangsAnalSatan) *"1970" 7-inch (2002, [[Inoxia Records]]) *"A Bao A Qu" 7-inch picture disc (2005, SuperFi Records) *"Statement" 7-inch (2008, [[Southern Lord Records]]) *"Message" 12-inch (2008, [[Diwphalanx Records]]) *"[[Japanese Heavy Rock Hits]] v1-4" 7-inch (2009, [[Southern Lord Records]]) *"Black Original Remix" 12-inch (2011, Catune) *"Looprider Remix" 12-inch (2012, Catune) *"Cosmos" 3x file (2012, Invada) *''Mr. Shortkill'' 12-inch (2016, Daymare Recordings) *"Phenomenons Drive" 12-inch (2018, Hello From The Gutter) *''Tears E.P.'' CD (2019, Trash-Up!! Records) *"[[Boris (song)|Boris]]" 12-inch (2020, Fangs Anal Satan) *"Heavy Rocks" 7-inch (2022, KiliKiliVilla) *"Pink" 7-inch (2022, KiliKiliVilla) *"Smile" 7-inch (2022, KiliKiliVilla) *"New Album" 7-inch (2022, KiliKiliVilla) *"Kuruimizu" 7-inch flexi (2022, Fangs Anal Satan / Wake Brewing) *"Noise" 7-inch (2022, KiliKiliVilla) *"Dear" 7-inch (2022, KiliKiliVilla) *"Christmas" 7-inch + box (2022, KiliKiliVilla)

==Concert films/Music videos== Music videos have been produced for several of Boris' songs, usually by the [[Japan]]ese production company Foodunited. *"Hama" *"Kuruimizu" *"Ibitsu" *"Furi" *"Korosu" *"1970" *"A Bao A Qu" *"The Evil One Which Sobs (Remix)" *"Pink" *"Rainbow" *"Statement" *"My Neighbour Satan" *"Heavy Metal Addict" *"Hope/Riot Sugar" *"Vanilla" *"The Power" *"Absolutego" *"Dōshitemo Anata o Yurusenai" *"Love" *"Shadow of Skull" *"Anti-Gone" *"鏡 (Zerkalo)" *"Reincarnation Rose" *"Drowning by Numbers" *"Beyond Good & Evil" *"She Is Burning" *"My Name Is Blank" *"prologue sansaro" *"Nosferatou" *"Michikusa" *"Not Surprised"

==Collaborations==

===Merzbow collaborations=== Boris have a well-established history of collaboration with [[Japanoise]] artist [[Merzbow]]. Thus far, three of the collaborations with Merzbow have been full-length albums, one of them is a 12-inch EP, and the last two are live albums.

*''Megatone'' CD (2002 [[Inoxia Records]]) *''[[04092001]]'' LP (2004 [[Inoxia Records]]) *''[[Sun Baked Snow Cave]]'' CD (2005 [[Hydra Head Records]]) *''[[Walrus/Groon]]'' 12-inch EP (2007 [[Hydra Head Records]]) *''[[Rock Dream]]'' 2CD/3LP (2007 [[Diwphalanx Records]]/[[Southern Lord Records]]) *''[[Klatter]]'' LP (2011 Daymare Records) *''[[Gensho (album)|Gensho]]'' CD/LP (2016 [[Relapse Records|Relapse]]/Daymare) *''[[2R0I2P0]]'' CD/LP (2020 Relapse)

===Other collaborations=== *''Black: Implication Flooding'' (with [[Keiji Haino]]) CD (1998 [[Inoxia Records]]) *''[[Altar (Sunn O))) and Boris album)|Altar]]'' (with [[Sunn O)))]]) CD/2CD/3LP (2006 [[Southern Lord Records]]/[[Inoxia Records]]/Daymare Records) *''[[Rainbow (Boris and Michio Kurihara album)|Rainbow]]'' (with [[Michio Kurihara]]) CD (2006/2007 Pedal Records/[[Drag City (record label)|Drag City]]) *''Cloud Chamber'' (with [[Michio Kurihara]]) CD (2008 Pedal Records) *''[[BXI (EP)|BXI EP]]'' (with [[Ian Astbury]]) CD/LP (2010 Southern Lord Records) *''EROS'' (with Endon) Cassette (2015 fangsanalsatan/New Noise Literacy)/LP (2016 Daymare Recordings) *''Low End Meeting'' (with GOTH-TRAD) CD/12" (2015 fangsanalsatan) *''Refrain'' (with Z.O.A) CD/LP (2020 Fangs Anal Satan)

==Split recordings== *Boris/Barebones Split EP – 10-inch/CD (1996, Piranha Records/Fangsanalsatan) *''Boris/Tomsk 7 Split EP'' – 7-inch (1997, Bovine Records) *''More Echoes, Touching Air Landscape'' – (with Choukoku no Niwa) CD (1999, [[Inoxia Records]]) *''Boris/The Dudley Corporation Split EP'' – 7-inch (2003, Scientific Labs)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040501195452/http://www.scientificlaboratories.com/slab7.html Scientific Laboratories]</ref> *''Long Hair and Tights'' – (with [[Doomriders]]) 2LP (2007, Daymare Recordings) *''Damaged split EP + DVD'' – (with Stupid Babies Go Mad) 10-inch (2007, [[Diwphalanx Records]]) *''She's So Heavy'' – Wata/Ai Aso split 7-inch (2007, [[Diwphalanx Records]]) *''[[Chapter Ahead Being Fake]]'' – [[Torche (band)|Torche]]/Boris split 10-inch/CD (2010/2009, Hydra Head/Daymare Recording) *''Golden Dance Classics'' – 9dw/Boris split vinyl and CD (2009, Catune) *''Boris/Saade'' – Boris/Saade split vinyl 12-inch (2011, KYEO) *''Asobi Seksu x Boris'' – [[Asobi Seksu]]/Boris split vinyl 7-inch (2012, [[Sargent House]]) *''Boris/Joe Volk'' – Boris/Joe Volk split vinyl 12-inch (2012, Invada) *''Boris/Heap Split Single'' – 7-inch (2014, Baked Goods) *''Rocky & The Sweden/Boris'' - split EP (2022, [[Relapse Records]]) *''Twins Of Evil'' - Melvins & Boris split (2024, [[Amphetamine Reptile Records]])

==Video releases== *''Hama'' VHS Promo (1998 Foodunited) *''Live at Shimokitazawa Shelter'' DVD (2003 [[Diwphalanx Records]]) *''Bootleg -Feedbacker-'' DVD (2005 Diwphalanx Records) *''Heavy Metal Me'' DVD (2005 Diwphalanx Records) *''Live in Japan'' DVD (2011 [[Southern Lord]])

==Other releases== *''Wizard's Convention: Japanese Heavy Rock Showcase'' – DVD (2005 [[Diwphalanx Records]]) *''Buzz In A.V/Scion Remix'' – (promo with Todd Edward, Mixhell, Optimo, NosaijThing; 2009 A.V/Scion) *''Statement Promo CD'' – promo (2008 Inoxia Records) *''1985'' – compilation of studio outtakes from 2011 (2019 Fangs Anal Satan)

==Compilation appearances==

===Exclusive songs=== These songs are available only on the compilations. *"Water Porch" on ''Take Care of Scabbard Fish'' CD (1994 Scabbard Fish) *:The above song was actually Boris' recorded debut. *"Mosquito" (studio version) on ''Eat the Chaos'' CD (1995 Thank You Record Co.) *"Vacuuum" on ''From Koenji to Eternity'' CD (1996 [[Inoxia Records|Inoxia]]) *"Me and the Devil Blues" on ''Up Jumped the Devil: Tribute to Robert Johnson'' CD (2000 P-Vine) *"Dronevil" on ''Mangrove2002'' CD (2002 Mangrove) *"Froggie Bee Baa" on ''Merzbow: Frog Remixed & Revisited'' 2CD (2003 Misanthropic Agenda) *"You Were Holding An Umbrella" (live 10/16/07 at Echoplex, LA) on ''Invocation of Sacred Resonance I'' (2008 [[Southern Lord Records]]) *"Slither" on '' Doggy Style: The Dogs Tribute'' 2xCD (2008 Future Now) *"Slither (Alternative Version)" on '' Doggy Style: The Dogs Tribute'' 2xCD (2008 Future Now) *"Blood Swamp (Tloc Edit)" on '' Limits of Control [SOUNDTRACK] '' CD (2009 Lakeshore Records) *"(Tloc Edit)" on '' Limits of Control [SOUNDTRACK] '' CD (2009 Lakeshore Records) *"Sometimes" on ''[[Yellow Loveless]]'' [Tribute to My Bloody Valentine] CD (2013 High Fader Records) *"[[Lithium (Nirvana song)|Lithium]]" (originally by [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]]; tribute album ''[[Whatever Nevermind]]'') (2015, Robotic Empire)

==Samplers== These are tracks taken from other Boris albums. *"Huge" on ''Let There Be Doom'' CD (2003 [[Southern Lord Records]]) Originally from ''[[Amplifier Worship]]'' *"A Bao A Qu" on ''Darkness Hath No Boundaries'' CD (2006 [[Southern Lord Records]]) Originally from ''[[Soundtrack from the Film Mabuta no Ura|Mabuta no Ura]]'' *"A Bao A Qu" and "Etna" on ''Darkness Knows No Boundaries'' CD (2006 [[Southern Lord Records]]) Originally from ''[[Soundtrack from Film "Mabuta no Ura"|Mabuta no Ura]]'' and ''[[Altar (Sunn O))) and Boris album)|Altar]]'' (with [[Sunn O)))]]) respectively *"The Sinking Belle (Blue Sheep)" on ''Mind The Gap Vol. 65'' CD (2006 Gonzo Circus) Originally from ''[[Altar (Sunn O))) and Boris album)|Altar]]'' (with [[Sunn O)))]]) *"My Machine" on ''Walkabout'' CD (2007 Endless Flight) Originally from ''[[Pink (Boris album)|Pink]]'' *"Farewell" on ''Within the Church of Thee Overlords'' CD (2007 [[Southern Lord Records]]) Originally from ''[[Pink (Boris album)|Pink]]''

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * [https://www.allmusic.com/artist/boris-mn0000075383/discography Boris] discography at [[AllMusic]] * {{Discogs artist |artist=Boris (3) |name=Boris}} * {{MusicBrainz artist |id=57652bf8-cfe8-42e7-b9a7-5572a7080d8d |name=Boris}}

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