Boris is a song by The Melvins

The Melvins

The Melvins are an American band that formed in 1983. They usually perform as a trio, but in recent years have performed as a four piece with two drummers. Since 1984, singer and guitarist Buzz Osborne and drummer Dale Crover have been the band's constant members...

 on their 1991 album, Bullhead

Bullhead (album)

Bullhead is an album by the Melvins released in 1991 through Boner Records. This album is notable for having longer song lengths than previous Melvins albums...

. Due to its extremely slow speeds and repetitive guitars it is often regarded as a doom metal

Doom metal

Doom metal is an extreme form of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other metal genres...

 song. The song is a fan favorite and appears on the Melvins retrospective album/book Neither Here nor There and the live album Alive at the F*cker Club. The Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese doom

Doom metal

Doom metal is an extreme form of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other metal genres...

/drone metal

Drone metal

Drone metal is a style of heavy metal that melds the slow tempos and heaviness of doom metal with the long-duration tones of drone music...

 band Boris

Boris (band)

is a Japanese experimental rock band, known for often combining and switching between different music genres including drone metal, sludge metal, noise rock, psychedelic rock, ambient and pop...

 named themselves after this song. The Boris song "Vomitself" from their album Amplifier Worship

Amplifier Worship

Amplifier Worship is the second album by Japanese band Boris.Excluding the "one-long-song" albums, this is one of only two Boris full-lengths to have vocals on every song , and the first time that Takeshi performed lead vocals for the band...

has a similar but slower riff at the start of the song, and as Boris are known to be influenced by Melvins, it is likely that this is not a coincidence.

The song was covered by Isis

Isis (band)

Isis was a Los Angeles, California-based post-metal band, founded in Boston, Massachusetts, with a career spanning from 1997 to 2010...

 and Agoraphobic Nosebleed

Agoraphobic Nosebleed

Agoraphobic Nosebleed is a grindcore band formed in 1994 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Its line-up has changed often during the years, leaving the only permanent member Scott Hull , also a guitarist in Pig Destroyer...

 on the 2005 tribute album

Tribute album

A tribute album is a recorded collection of cover versions of songs or instrumental compositions. Its concept may be either various artists making a tribute to a single artist, a single artist making a tribute to various artists, or a single artist making a tribute to another single artist.There...

 We Reach: The Music of the Melvins

We Reach: The Music of the Melvins

We Reach: The Music of The Melvins is a 2005 tribute album to the Melvins.-Track listing:...

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