In 2024, Boris will undergo a tour performing all the songs off their first album. We have already reached a quarter-century since the release of that first album, Amplifier Worship. Boris has been in constant pursuit of their own ideal “heavy” since their formation in 1992. From the outset they became like a chimera, evolving at a rapid pace, establishing a unique style with extreme downtuning and megavolume. Their broad sense of “Heavy Rock” swelled grotesquely, as it engulfed powerviolence, ambient, and drone, with a trance component of krautrock and so on.

From Tokyo to the world, Boris spread out from the underground community to have their name become more widely known. Five years after their formation, Boris went deep into the beyond of heavy music to make their first album, one that can be said to be a palace constructed in unexplored realms. However, the album by no means serves as a peaceful "end" or resting place/"gravestone" for those compositions. Rather, it was a map to the “beyond” that Boris drew up at the time, a blueprint pointing to the future. 25 years after the release of Amplifier Worship, that guidance has been revealed: a full length tour for performing all of the songs on the album in a double-drum-format Drone Set.

As a pioneering effort in Drone Metal, a palace under the name of Amplifier Worship was constructed and revealed as both a point of departure as well as a destination. Amplified oscillations and volume, going from anguish to pleasure and back, being in fear as well as in awe at what can be called heavy— we venture into this palace of worship together.

For this tour Boris are taking along Starcrawler, a band that intensifies the prayer of rock 'n' roll. This only takes us further into the “beyond,” embarking on this worship service. Welcome to the ceremony!

Past Shows


Oct
9
th
2024
Fine Line
Oct
9
th
2024
Fine Line

Boris

Amplifier Worship Service performing 'Amplifier Worship' in its entirety
with Starcrawler
Sep
12
th
2022
Fine Line
Sep
12
th
2022
Fine Line
Oct
21
st
2017
Triple Rock Social Club
Oct
21
st
2017
Triple Rock Social Club

Boris

with Helms Alee and ENDON
Aug
17
th
2016
Fine Line
Aug
17
th
2016
Fine Line

Boris

with Earth
Aug
12
th
2014
Triple Rock Social Club
Aug
12
th
2014
Triple Rock Social Club

Boris

with THE ATLAS MOTH and SubRosa

More Shows

Feb
16
th
Fine Line

Dua Saleh

with Sam Austins
Jan
10
th
First Avenue

G. Love & Special Sauce

Feb
9
th
The Fitzgerald Theater

A Black History Month Celebration
The Sound of Gospel

Feb
8
th
The Fitzgerald Theater

A Black History Month Celebration
The Sound of Gospel