Boris
Japanese power trio Boris is wrapping up their current tour at the Casbah, with their newest metal tsunami Dear marking a quarter century of splitting eardrums all over the world. The album has been in progress since 2015, but last year was spent on the Performing Pink tour, pushing back work on approximately three albums’ worth of material they say they recorded for Dear before narrowing down to ten tracks. Two dreamy doom-laced singles are streaming online, “Absolutego” and “Memento Mori,” both straddling a jump rope somewhere between the Melvins and San Diego’s own Prayers. A video for “Absolutego” presents the band in nightmarish monochrome, unspooling like an old black-and-white filmstrip as it melts from being too close to the projector lamphouse. It’s entirely possible that Boris’ younger fans have no idea what celluloid film is, let alone “get” the worn-out grindhouse imagery, but Boris has always been about feeding the past to the future, both sonically and visually. The bill includes Torche and Endon.