Gensho

Boris and Merzbow’s 1998 collaboration on Relapse Records fuses the Japanese drone metal band’s glacial riffs with Merzbow’s corrosive noise textures into a singular entity of crushing density. The result sits somewhere between doom metal and experimental noise—glacial, distorted, utterly uncompromising. Both artists strip their signatures down to raw frequencies and sustain, creating a 40-minute wall of sound that rewards patient listening.