Review: Back in 2019, Japanese post/noise/psych-rock giants Boris toured with industrial hardcore purveyors Uniform, in what felt like somewhat of a strange bedfellows type of show. During this run, Uniform were invited to team up on a reimagined version of the Boris classic "Akuma no Uta" as part of their encore, and the resulting chemistry from those performances inspired both acts to begin work on a full collaborative project. Years of bouncing ideas from one another's home studio bases has finally resulted in the beautifully ugly Bright New Disease. Taking practically every facet of both act's previous genre explorations, the album runs the gamut from oppressive walls of screeching noise to Japanese D-beat retro hardcore, and all the way down to watery, shoegazing euphorics and mechanized industrial bedlam.
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