Heavy Rocks (2002 album)

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This article is about the 2002 album. For the other Boris album, released in 2011, see Heavy Rocks (2011 album).

Heavy Rocks

Studio album by Boris

Released

April 2002

Recorded

2002

Genre

Stoner rock

Length

47:20

Label

Quattro/UK Discs

Boris chronology

Megatone
(2002)

Heavy Rocks
(2002)

Boris/The Dudley Corporation
(2003)

Heavy Rocks is the fourth album by Japanese metal band Boris. Unlike the previous albums, which were laden with doom and drone sounds, this music departs wholesale from Boris's previous efforts and emphasizes punk and stoner rock. Despite this, the album was and is still well received by fans, and is the "base sound" for their releases on Diwphalanx.

Music videos were shot for "1970" and "Korosu", both of which formerly could be viewed on FoodUnited's website. Both videos can be found on the DVD Live at Shimokitazawa Shelter.

Heavy Rocks was going to be released on vinyl by Man's Ruin Records but the label folded before it happened.

A single was released by Inoxia Records featuring alternate takes of the songs "1970" b/w "Wareruraido."

Alternate takes of "Korosu" and "1970" appear on Variations.^[1]

Limited copies were made for this album and has since been a very rare and obscure album

In 2011, Boris released another album called Heavy Rocks featuring the same cover style in purple.

Track listing

Unusually, only a few tracks on the original release are in Japanese (4, 8, and 9).

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Heavy Friends"	4:49
2.	"Korosu"	4:48
3.	"Dyna-Soar"	3:44
4.	"Wareruraido" (ワレルライド)	2:44
5.	"Soft Edge"	3:50
6.	"Rattlesnake"	2:16
7.	"Death Valley"	6:56
8.	"Koei" (孤映)	3:54
9.	"Kane -The Bell Tower of a Sign-" (鐘 -The Bell Tower of a Sign-)	8:28
10.	"1970"	4:58

Guests

Lori (Acid King), "Heavy Friends"
Maso Yamazaki (Masonna, Christine 23, Space Machine), "Dyna-Soar"
Masami Akita a.k.a. Merzbow, "Death Valley"
Eddie Legend (Mad3), "Koei"
Komi (Abnormals), "Kane"

Pressing history

Year	Label	Format	Country	Out of Print?	Notes
2002	Quattro/UK Discs	CD	Japan	No (Original pressing sold out. Reprinted in 2009)	-

References

↑ Variations order page from Inoxia Records

External links

Heavy Rocks at MusicBrainz (list of releases)

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Studio albums	Absolutego Amplifier Worship Flood Heavy Rocks Akuma no Uta Boris at Last: -Feedbacker- The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked Dronevil Soundtrack from Film "Mabuta no Ura" Pink The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked 2 The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked 3 Vein Smile New Album Heavy Rocks Attention Please Präparat

with Merzbow	Megatone 04092001 Sun Baked Snow Cave Rock Dream Walrus / Groon Klatter

with Sunn O)))	Altar

with Michio Kurihara	Rainbow Cloud Chamber

with Ian Astbury	BXI

Singles and EPs	Boris/Barebones Boris/Tomsk 7 More Echoes, Touching Air Landscape "1970" Boris/The Dudley Corporation "A Bao A Qu" Walrus/Groon Damaged She's So Heavy "Statement" "Message"

Live albums	Black: Implication Flooding 04092001 Boris Archive Long Hair and Tights Rock Dream Smile -Live at Wolf Creek-

Boxed sets	The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked - Chronicle

Video	Live at Shimokitazawa Shelter Bootleg -Feedbacker- Wizard's Convention: Japanese Heavy Rock Showcase Heavy Metal Me

Related articles	Boris discography Drone metal Doom metal Sunn O))) Merzbow Keiji Haino Inoxia Records Diwphalanx Records Southern Lord Records

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