Boris - Pink

Boris have been making albums for years, but up until Pink most of it was noisy, doom-y, experimental drone metal. Not the most fun stuff to play if you're a drummer.

Then something happened.

With a preview of what was on the way on 2002's Heavy Rocks, Boris made some changes. Not wanting to linger in one genre too long they decided to kick it up a notch. It's still heavy (not jun jun heavy, but it would be appropriate if the world ended while you were listening to this album, heavy) They kept their guitars at the same fuzzed out levels they always have, but this time they played some actual riffs. Really fast ones. They also gave their drummer the opportunity to wail. Really wail.

Atsuo must have had years of pent up drummers rage to pull off this album. He has incredible endurance, speed and power, and it sounds like he is just destroying everything in his path. I like the fact that he goes from playing very slow doom metal (決別) right into Fu-Manchu-ish stoner rock (Pink), into Melvins-esque noise rock ((free food)), into Zeppelin style riff rock (Painted with flame), but it's all done with more energy than their predecessors, a little more zazz.

Any metal drummers out there need to hear this record, but don't listen to it with headphones in public, it just might make you feel like running around screaming and punching people in the face.

Audio/Visual evidence : Pink, (The Woman On The Screen)