BORIS – PINK 20th Anniversary Tour

Japanese metal virtuosos celebrate the 20th anniversary of their best album

Why choose one genre when you can play them all? That seems to be Boris's philosophy. This Japanese trio collects genres like Pokémon cards. With every album, they reinvent themselves and take on a completely new genre. In doing so, they have already proven themselves masters of psychedelia, punk, sludge, doom metal, drone, pop, noise, shoegaze, and ambient.

They have been employing this approach for over thirty years now, and it never gets boring. In fact, this year they were simply one of the revelations at the prestigious Roadburn festival yet again. And Boris isn't done with the Netherlands just yet. Their award-winning album Pink is turning 20, and the band is celebrating at De Helling. On November 12, they will take you back to 2005, when they were in the midst of their drone-meets-shoegaze-meets-ambient phase. Boris at one of his best.

SUPPORT: PLANNING FOR BURIAL

Another highlight of this past Roadburn: Planning for Burial, the DIY project of producer/songwriter Tom Wasluck. A genuine one-man band that, from his home studio, compresses elements of shoegaze, doom, slowcore, and black metal into an ash-gray substance in which he leaves us helplessly bobbing.