Boris & Planning For Burial in Oslo

Boris is a Japanese band formed in Tokyo in 1992 and established as the trio of Atsuo, Takeshi and Wata in 1996. Their music ranges across sludge and doom metal, drone, noise, psychedelia, post-rock and punk. Their catalogue includes Absolutego, Flood, Akuma no Uta and Pink, as well as collaborative records made with Merzbow, Sunn O))), Michio Kurihara, Ian Astbury and Uniform. The 2016 Beyond Pink Tour was documented on the concert album Live at Third Man. They have also organized a concert series that brought together invited bands from different genres under the name Fangsanalsatan.

Planning For Burial is the American solo project of Thom Wasluck, founded in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 2005. Its music draws on shoegaze, drone, slowcore and doom metal, heard across albums including Leaving, Desideratum and Below the House. Wasluck performs the material alone, using vocals, guitar and effects to reproduce its dense layers onstage. Planning For Burial has toured clubs and DIY venues in North America and Europe, and has performed at Roadburn Festival in Tilburg.