Bosse-de-Nage

Bosse-de-Nage
OriginSan Francisco, California, U.S.
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Websitebosse-de-nage.com

Bosse-de-Nage is an American band from San Francisco, California, United States, composed of four anonymous members.[1] Considered a part of the blackgaze scene,[2][3] the band performs an experimental black metal style that draws from post-rock, shoegaze, post-hardcore, screamo, and indie rock,[4][5][6] with influences from Slint, Mogwai, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.[7] AllMusic critic Gregory Heaney wrote that the band "crafts a sound that's as comfortable expanding outward as it is contracting into a suffocating mass of needling guitars and frantic drumming."[4] The band's lyrics touch upon various subjects, such as sex, filth, bodies, perversion, and death.[8] Their name is taken from French symbolist Alfred Jarry's book Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician; it is the name of a monkey which may or may not have been a hallucination of the narrator.[9]

  1. ^ "Mysterious Bosse-De-Nage releasing 'II' (new song debut & older free downloads too)". BrooklynVegan. 30 August 2011. Retrieved January 22, 2016.
  2. ^ Walschots, Natalie Zina (February 26, 2014). "The Translator: Blackgaze". Exclaim!. Retrieved January 22, 2016.
  3. ^ Howells, Tom (5 October 2015). "Blackgaze: meet the bands taking black metal out of the shadows". the Guardian. Retrieved 2015-10-05.
  4. ^ a b Heaney, Gregory. "Bosse-de-Nage". AllMusic. Retrieved January 22, 2016.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference exclaim-all-fours was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Kelly, Kim (July 5, 2012). "Bosse-de-Nage - III". Pitchfork. Retrieved January 22, 2016.
  7. ^ Hayes, Craig (July 12, 2012). "Bosse-de-Nage - III". PopMatters. Retrieved January 22, 2016.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference vice-lyrics was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ "Bosse-de-Nage". metal-archives.com. Retrieved March 20, 2018.