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Akuma No Uta | 
| Artist: Boris
Label: Southern Lord
Category: Music
Buy New: $13.98
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 61898
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 808720004120
UPC: 808720004120
EAN: 0808720004120
ASIN: B0007XMKYO
Release Date: April 19, 2005
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
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| Tracks:
| • | Introduction | | • | Ibitsu | | • | Furi | | • | Naki Kyoku | | • | Ano Onna No Onryou | | • | Akuma No Uta |
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Media Type: CD
Artist: BORIS
Title: AKUMA NO UTA
Street Release Date: 04/19/2005
Domestic
Genre: HEAVY METAL
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
BUY NOW! July 24, 2008
Courtney (Melbourne, Australia)
FAST HEAVY DISTORTIONS!!!
This is what REAL rock is! This is what rock is meant to be...creating some fantastic noise, and adding in fast and well written distorted tracks with vocals being YELLED and solos being SHREDDED with no regard for what people think. Buy it now because BORIS are better than you!!!!!
Again BORIS ARE THE BEST BAND ON EARTH June 4, 2008
cannibalhippy (happy hap hap)
This cd is great like all their cds!
I started with pink..and didnt like it..(Now I couldn't live without it!)
Then I got blown out of my socks by the incredible japanese version of SMILE
So I got feedbacker..what?Incredible just what a great cd!
then Absolutego:Heavy like shxt and a doom-black classic
Flood...lost for words..stunning!
Then amplifier Worship:with a title like that.;you cant go wrong,and Boris doesnt
Heavy Rocks:Not to be found here:again stunning booklet this one's pretty punky!But again 10 stars!
And now we have this beauty.
Should you buy it?
Do you want to know the future?
would you go and see the velvets in 69?
or the Pistols in 76?
The Birthday Party in 81?
The Clash in 77?
The Swans in 81?
Be warned buy and listen to 1 boris cd..and after a while you ll be hooked
like never before.
I just saw them live
as a 5 piece....Mamamia!
also get rockdream limited edition 2xcd..(if you have seen them live!)..you will I m sure!
Boris are incredible musicians.;and then can get truly heavy!
Be warned
amazing December 18, 2007
shoo (seattle usa)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
you really can't go wrong with this band. this album is yet another example of that. they are the best thing going on planet earth right now -- don't miss out.
 Pretty heavy stuff August 25, 2006
A. Davis (Los Angeles)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I assume they are named after a Melvins song, and the tribute is apt. Played at any volume, you can appreciate that when these songs were recorded, the volume was cranked at 11 throughout. Some is slow, some is fairly fast, none of it at a speed-metal pace. Actually reminds me of the best Black Flag, the way their clear enthusiasm for volume and ugly noise competes with simple, good song structure. I would imagine they're quite a good live show.
The Shape of Sludge to Come June 26, 2006
Zachary A. Hanson (Tallahassee, FL United States)
17 out of 20 found this review helpful
Boris is a brutal delicacy, that rare concoction that does all things for all people. If everyone knew it and consumed it in extremis, though, it would stop being a delicacy, right? Oh well, everyone else's loss. _Akuma No Uta_ is a drop-dead masterpiece, from the punishing drone of the opener to the gong-inititiated reprise of the intro on the last song, the title track (translated as "The Evil Song.") They can do it all and just about better than all the competition:
--Sludge? I don't hear anyone who can blend a blaring punk melody with sludge in such a truly sickly-sweet manner as Boris does on their upbeat tracks;
--Metal? Ozzy probably doesn't even know it, but these guys are the real heirs to the heavy-as-hell legacy; way more than anyone on Ozzfest;
--Drone? To say the least, but that doesn't stop them from rocking like mad when they choose to push their own boundaries.
--Psychedelic? Believe me, when you turn _Akuma No Uta_ up as loud as you need to, there are few more mind-and-body-altering experience than this one (really your body churns!!!);
--Punk? Yeah . . . we can call this band "punk as f**k." To those who like their music in boxes and think that "punk as f**k" means the latest Exploited retread, well, Boris is too punk for you. For the rest of us, Boris may be the band who can cash in on the late, great Refused's promise of _The Shape of Punk to Come_. Like the Refused, Boris takes any style and makes it their own in their awe-inspiring music machine (minus the jazziness of the Nordic screamers, but plus the sludge, drone, psychedelia, etc. . . .). Also like the Refused, Boris are forward-looking, taking the listener on a gleeful death ride that leaves you absolutely free. It doesn't get more punk than that, kids.
When you take into account that Boris are Japanese and rock harder and better than pretty much any of us in the Anglo world, it's clear to see where our eyes should be turning to discover where the future of rock lay. I realize that I've talked them up more than I've reviewed the songs, but words can hardly describe. I'll just say that it compares 100% favorably with their newest opus _Pink_, just more succinct. Oh, did I mention they play their instruments to within an inch of their literal existences? (I don't think I've heard an amp abused as much as on _Akuma No Uta_). Wata is one wicked, original, and visceral guitarist. I could go on and on, but I'm just gonna let you buy this album; wait for it to come in the mail; put it on your stereo's highest setting (jack up the bass!!!); and feel your perception, and hence your life, change.
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