Boris ● Sumac ● Endon at WOW Hall

On Friday October 6th, The WOW Hall in Eugene is happy to welcome Japanese experimental metal band Boris along with special guests SUMAC and ENDON!

ALL AGES
$15 advance/ $18 day of show
Doors 8pm, Music 9pm

BUY TIX: https://tinyurl.com/BorisWOW

BIOS:

BORIS (Tokyo, Japan): “We don’t feel comfortable calling Dear a return to our slow and heavy style,” says Tokyo’s amplifier worshiping experimental metal institution Boris. “We’ve been heavy since day one.” And it’s true.

From the droning thunder of their Absolutego debut and through the cinematic crescendo of albums like Flood, the bombastic licks of the Heavy Rocks records, the punk rage of Vein, the bottom-dwelling psychedelia of Akuma no Uta and Pink, and the grimy thump of Attention Please and New Album, Boris has always attempted to search out new ways to level listeners with their sound. On the 25th year of their existence, the trio delivers Dear, an album they describe as “heavenly—far beyond heavy.”

http://borisheavyrocks.com/

The seed of SUMAC was planted somewhere around the end of 2010 or the beginning of 2011, sown upon the smoldering ashes of guitarist/vocalist Aaron Turner’s former band ISIS.

Turner had seen his prior project reach full fruition over the span of thirteen years, and it had reached the end of its lifecycle. ISIS had come to define an entire genre of architecturally meticulous and sonically nuanced metal, but at some point all the corners had been mapped, all the fortifications constructed. There was nothing left to build.

SUMAC takes multiple turns through unexpected territories: textural hums, math-metal, harsh noise, Caspar Brötzmann-inspired free-jazz. But all roads lead to a destination that epitomizes the members’ passionate dedication to heavy multi-deminsional music—bludgeoning riffs, tension-building structures, disorienting seismic shifts in tone, timbre, and tempo.

https://www.facebook.com/SUMACBAND/

Despite over a decade of existence, Japan’s self-described “catastrophic noise-metal” outfit ENDON has largely eluded the attention of the broader Western underground music community. This began to change in 2016 with the stateside release of their 2014 album MAMA and tours along the East and West Coasts. Given the West’s fascination with Japan’s permutations of punk, metal, and noise, it’s unlikely that any band that has been frequently bestowed with the designation of “the most extreme act in Tokyo” would remain under the radar for long.

https://www.facebook.com/tokyodionysos/

Venue and address

The WOW Hall, 291 W 8th Ave, 97401 Eugene

Tickets for October 6, 2017

• Fri

  10/06/2017

  9:00 PM

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Boris ● Sumac ● Endon at WOW Hall

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